We reported last year that Rupert Grint had been cast in CBGB, a film based on the owner and founder of the New York Club of the same name. In the movie, Rupert will play Cheetah Chrome, the guitarist of the punk band The Dead Boys. Alan Rickman will also star in the film as club owner Hilly Kristal.
It has been announced that Evanna Lynch will play Bess, the wife of famous magician Harry Houdini, in Houdini, an upcoming play based on the early performing years of Harry and his brother Theo.
It has recently been announced that Helena Bonham Carter, who portrays Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter films, will play an MI5 agent in two thrillers produced by BBC TV. The two films, called Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield, are part of The Worricker Trilogy.
It has been announced that Daniel Radcliffe will star in the crime thriller Tokyo Vice, an adaptation of a memoir by American journalist Jake Adelstein.
Matthew Lewis, as a patron of the Bethany Hare Smile Foundation, will provide signed certificates to participants in the charity’s fundraising event Walk of Smiles on June 1. The Smile Foundation raises money for children with terminal or chronic illnesses, and was founded by 13-year-old Bethany Hare.
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A broom used during the filming of Harry Potter will be exhibited at the New Walk Museum and Art Gallery beginning May 4 as a part of the “Magic Worlds” exhibit. There is no word yet on whether the broom displayed will be Harry’s Nimbus 2000 or his Firebolt, but the broom is being touted as the exhibit’s main attraction.
Gary Oldman, who portrays Sirius Black in the Harry Potter films, is slated to appear in the music video for David Bowie’s song “The Next Day.” Oldman was reportedly seen filming the music video in New York earlier this month wearing long, religious-type robes.
Harry Potter alums Imelda Staunton, who portrays Professor Umbridge, and Toby Jones, who provides the voice of Dobby, are set to star in Circle Mirror Transformation at the Rose Lipman Building in London. The production is part of the Royal Court’s Theatre Local Project, and will run from July 5 to August 3.
It has been announced that The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, will open the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Films in the Un Certain Regard section run parrallel to the main Cannes selections and are judged by a separate jury and awarded a separate prize, to be announced May 25.
Harry Potter
Composer
1991
Rose Granger-Weasley (CC – London)
2017
Producer
1997
1997
Hermione Granger (CC)
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