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Den of Geek has received a new clip discussing the creation of Hagrid from the special features of the Harry Potter Wizards Collection. The clip includes interviews with Nick Dudman, special makeup effects designer, and Martin Bayfield, the double for Hagrid. Watch the video at this link or below.



The 31-disc Harry Potter Wizards Collection is out Sept. 7 in the U.S. and Sept. 10 in the U.K.

In celebration of a certain wizard's birthday today, Warner Brothers have released the list of exclusive features and memorabilia that will be included in the eight film, 31-disc Harry Potter Wizard's Collection, due in stores on September 10, 2012. Harry Potter Wizard's Collection contains more than 37 hours of special features, including all previously released special features from the eight Harry Potter films and nearly four hours of never-before-seen bonus features.

The complete list is as follow:

Films Included in this Collection – All on Blu-ray, DVD and UltraViolet

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Theatrical Version and Extended Cut
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Theatrical Version and Extended Cut
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 2D and 3D Versions
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 2D and 3D Versions

Blu-ray Special Features for Hours of Entertainment – Includes all previously released Special Features

• Harry Potter Wizard’s Collection Bonus Disc: Nearly 4 hours of features including:
• • All New! “The Harry Potters You Never Met” - Meet the stunt doubles for Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as they demonstrate how they balanced major stunt work with seamlessly mimicking the actors they represented and share their favorite moments.
  • All New! “Designing the World of Harry Potter” - Explore how production designer Stuart Craig and his creative team brought J.K. Rowling's imagination to life on the screen.
  • All New! “When Harry Left Hogwarts” (Extended Version) - Hear candid and emotional stories about the final days on set in this extended behind-the-scenes look.
  • All New! “50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments” (Definitive Version) - Take a look back with cast members who share their on and off-screen memories.
  • All New! “Secrets Revealed! Quidditch” – At last, the secrets behind the special effects required for the breathtaking Quidditch scenes are revealed!
  • All New! “Secrets Revealed! Hagrid”- See the camera tricks, towering stand-in and voluminous body suits behind the beloved Keeper of  Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts.

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 Bonus Disc: Over 2 hours of features including:
• • All New! “Creating the World of Harry Potter, Part. 7: Story"
  • Plus all previously released special features!0

•  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Bonus Disc: Over 4 hours of features including:
• • All New! “Creating the World of Harry Potter, Part. 8: Growing Up”
  • All New! “A Conversation with J.K. Rowling and Daniel Radcliffe: Extended Version” - with 15 minutes of new footage
  • “Hogwarts’ Last Stand” (Extended Version)
  • Plus all previously released special features!

·  Exclusive Premiums

•  Memorabilia designed exclusively for the collection by the graphic designers from the films
• Label Collection –  A collection of prop labels created by the production for potions, wizarding products and more
• Harry Potter Catalogue of Artefacts – 48-page rigid book featuring the favorite props of the film’s graphic d
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A very dedicated Harry Potter fan has put together a nearly 18 minute video which showcases pretty much every spell and act of magic shown throughout the eight "Harry Potter" films. This impressive montage can be seen here or below!

ABC Family has scheduled a May "Harry Potter" marathon to air from Thursday, May 17 until Sunday, May 20th. The channel will only show films two ("Chamber of Secrets") through six ("Half-Blood Prince").

The complete schedule is available below:

Thursday, May 17th
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

Friday, May 18th
4:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

Saturday, May 19th
1:30 PM – 4:30 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
4:30 PM – 8:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
11:00 PM – 2:00 AM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"

Sunday, May 20th
11:00 AM – 2:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
8:30 PM – 12:00 AM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”

The MTV Movie Award nominations were revealed tonight, and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is up for 6 awards. The final Potter film is nominated for Movie of the Year, and its young cast has also received nominations, including Best Male Performance for Daniel Radcliffe and Best Cast.

See the complete list of nominations for "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" below. Voting is open to the public from tomorrow morning, 8 a.m. EST at MovieAwards.MTV.com. Winners will be announced live at the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, June 3rd.

Movie of the Year
"Bridesmaids"
"The Hunger Games"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
"The Help"
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"

Best Male Performance
Daniel Radcliffe, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
Ryan Gosling, "Drive"
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, "50/50"
Josh Hutcherson, "The Hunger Games"
Channing Tatum, "The Vow"

Best Female Performance
Jennifer Lawrence, "The Hunger Games"
Kristin Wiig, "Bridesmaids"
Emma Stone, "Crazy, Stupid, Love"
Emma Watson, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
Rooney Mara, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"

Best Cast
"Bridesmaids"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
"The Hunger Games"
"21 Jump Street"
"The Help"

Best Fight
Daniel Radcliffe vs. Ralph Fiennes, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson vs. Alexander Ludwig, "The Hunger Games"
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill vs. Kid Gang, "21 Jump Street"
Tom Hardy vs. Joel Edgerton, "Warrior"
Tom Cruise vs. Michelle Nyqvist, "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol"

Best Kiss
Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, "Crazy, Stupid, Love"
Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2"
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, "The Hunger Games"
Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, "The Vow"
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1"

The red carpet for the grand opening of Warner Bros. Studio Tour - the Making of Harry Potter is about to get underway! Watch live as the cast and crew of the "Harry Potter" films arrive and speak to presenter Alex Zane. Leaky will have more coverage from the grand opening, so stay tuned!

 

Leaky participated in a press tour of the Warner Bros. Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter this morning and now has a special gallery of high res photos from the experience right here!  Stay close for Leaky's full report, set to be online soon.

The Warner Bros. Studio Tour opens to the public on March 31st.  For tickets and more information, visit the official website here.

The 31-disc Harry Potter Wizard's Collection Blu-ray/DVD box set will be released on Sept. 7 in the U.S. and Sept. 10 in the U.K., it's been announced.

This definitive collection will include all eight Harry Potter films, plus over four hours of never-before-seen footage. The massive box set weighs an impressive 19 pounds, and will also come with "artistic and authentic film memorabilia."

The official Harry Potter website has been updated to reflect the impending release of the Wizard's Collection. An interactive wand gesture game has been added to the site so fans can unlock exclusive previews of the bonus material every week.

This week, Yahoo! has the first exclusive preview which shows a young Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) talking about a rather "unpretty picture" he drew of Alan Rickman (Severus Snape). The clip then shows a present-day Grint and Rickman talking about the drawing. Watch it below!

Beginning Wednesday, March 14, ABC Family will be kicking off a Harry Potter marathon, airing the first six movies through Sunday, March 18. Exclusive interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson will be interspersed throughout the marathon during commercial breaks.

The complete "Harry Potter" schedule is as follows:

Wednesday, March 14th

7:30 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT –  “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”

Thursday, March 15th

3:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET/PT –    “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”
7:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT –  “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”

Friday, March 16th

4:00 PM – 8:00 PM ET/PT –    “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”
8:00 PM – 11:00 PM ET/PT –  “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”

Saturday, March 17th 

2:30 PM – 5:30 PM ET/PT –    “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM ET/PT –    “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
9:00 PM – 12:00 AM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”

Sunday, March 18th 

11:00 AM – 2:00 PM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban”
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET/PT –    “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”
5:30 PM – 8:30 AM ET/PT –   “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
8:30 PM – 12:00 AM ET/PT – “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”

Harry Potter: The Exhibition will be making its first stop in Asia at the ArtScience Museum at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from June 1 to September 30, 2012.

The traveling exhibition of props, costumes and set pieces from the Harry Potter films is currently at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum until March 18.

Tickets for the ArtScience Museum go on sale beginning May 1, 2012 through the museum's website.

Retailer Amazon.com has posted images and information for what looks to be the ultimate showcase collection of Harry Potter films fans have been waiting for.  The Harry Potter Wizards Collection contains a total of 31 discs, 18 of which present a mixture of regular and extended cuts of all seven films, 13 special feature discs compiling hours of extras from the series.  This new boxed set, according to Amazon, contains over "5 hours of never before seen special features, in a limited and numbered edition."  An animated video of the box and its contents accompanies the product page, and can be viewed right here.

While full details are scarce, a full list of films and features is as follows:

• 18 movie discs
• "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone" Theatrical Version and Extended Cut
• "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" Theatrical Version and Extended Cut
• "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
• "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"
• "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix"
• "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"
• "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1" 2D and 3D Versions
• "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2" 2D and 3D Versions
• 13 Special feature discs
• Includes multiple specially-produced, collectable [sp] memorabilia items, including concept art, a Map of Hogwarts and much more!

Warner Bros. announced today that the famous triple-decker Knight Bus will become a permanent fixture at The Making of Harry Potter - Warner Bros. Studio Tour London.

Fans will have the opportunity to explore the inside of the bus and pose for photos. It will be situated next to Hagrid's motorbike and the Weasley's Ford Anglia. Photos of the Knight Bus at Leavesden Studios can be seen at this link.

John Richardson, special effects supervisor for the Harry Potter films, explained to the Watford Observer how the Knight Bus was constructed:

“Although many people think the Knight Bus was a CGI creation, it is in fact a real-life working bus. To construct it, we cut up two iconic Routemaster buses, reworked the structure and bolted it all back together to create one bus with three decks. It took weeks to put it together and it was no easy task. Routemasters are 60 years old, so we had to do a lot of strengthening of the structure.

Another issue we had was filming on location in London. During the shooting of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban we found we could not drive it across the capital due to the number of low bridges. This meant that we had to transport the bus in two pieces between locations and put it back together between filming."

The Making of Harry Potter at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London will open on March 31, 2012. Tickets can be pre-booked on their website; tickets will not be available for purchase at the studios.

London mayor Boris Johnson was present this morning at Warner Bros. Studio Tour to help reveal the latest Harry Potter set to be joining the Making of Harry Potter tour.

Guests at the Studio Tour will have the opportunity to walk through Diagon Alley, and see such shops as Ollivander's, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Flourish & Blotts, Gringotts and Eeylops Owl Emporium.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter will open on March 31, 2012. Tickets are now on sale!

Users of the website Harry Potter: The Quest recently unlocked a new video called "The Love Life of Ron Weasley." The video includes interviews with Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley), Emma Watson (Hermione Grange), David Yates (director) and David Heyman (producer) along with some previously unseen behind-the-scenes footage of the Ron and Hermione kiss. Watch it here or check it out below:

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" was awarded "Movie of the Year" at the annual RAAM Awards, which took place at a gala ceremony in London today at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square. Also nominated for "Movie of the Year" were "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" and "Up."

RAAM Award-winners are determined by box office data as well as by an advisory board comprised of representatives of ... Read the rest of this post

Early this morning in Los Angeles, the 82nd Annual Academy Award nominations were announced, and the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film received a nod for Best Cinematography.  The sixth Potter film was nominated along side such other films in this category as "Avatar," "The Hurt Locker," "Inglourious Basterds," and "The White Ribbon."<>
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Warner Bros.' monthly Harry Potter newsletter has a brand new interview with Nicholas Hooper in which he talks about his experiences scoring "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." In the interview Mr. Hooper comments that the journey to the cave was his favourite scene to score in the sixth film and that "[upon hearing] it performed by the hug... Read the rest of this post

The final set of nominations for the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards, the BAFTAs, have been announced, and include two nominations for the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film.  First, the sixth Potter film was recognized in the category of Production Design, along side such other films as "Avatar," "District 9," "Inglourious Basterds," and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.... Read the rest of this post

The "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film has been nominated in the 8th Annual VES (Visual Effects Society) Awards, "recognizing outstanding visual effects artistry in over twenty categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games."  The sixth Potter film recieved a nomination in the Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture category, along side such ot... Read the rest of this post

The Fourth Annual Richard Attenborough Film Awards are set to take place on January 28th, and feature a number categories which include nominations of the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film.  The RAFTA's are the UK's regional film awards and combine awards chosen by critics and UK film fans alike.  First, MovieScope is reporting that the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film ... Read the rest of this post

The Irish Film and Television Academy have today released a shortlist of some the nominees for the 2010 Irish Film and Television Awards. Actor Michael Gambon has been nominated for his portrayal of Albus Dumbledore in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince". Mr. Gambon faces competition in the Supporting Actor category from Simon Delaney ("Happy Ever Afters"), Aidan Quinn ("The Eclipse") and ... Read the rest of this post

Potential nominations for the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" film continue to be in the air, as the BAFTA organization has included the sixth Potter film in their longlist of potential nominees in a total of seven categories.  The British Academy Film and Television Arts list of the first round picks by the 6,000 academy voters included the Potter film as a potential nominee in the Ma... Read the rest of this post

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD garnered the top spot in Nielsen VideoScan's First Alert sales chart this week with a total of $302 million in sales.  First week sales of the sixth Potter film came in above the such releases as Public Enemies and Julie and Julia, which were ranked in second and third place, respectively.  The report goes on to ... Read the rest of this post