Harry Potter Facts

Here are some random Harry Potter Facts. If you have not gone to the last movie yet you must go before it is out on DVD.

• The film’s budget is estimated to have been £150 million. John Hurt (Mr Ollivander in the films) ranted recently about the ‘quite absurd’ amount of money spent on ‘Harry Potter’ films. He said: ‘I look around and there are three costumes there, none of which are likely to be worn, and they’re all replicas of each other. It’s a vacuous waste of money and it drives me insane.’
• It was all drama at Leavesden as in March 2009, soon after Holmes’ injury, a fire started on set. The fire started during the filming of ‘a big special effects scene’ and took 40 minutes to extinguish but caused no injuries. Apparently there was no damage to the studios and the actual set was ‘due to be rebuilt anyway’ for a new battle scene in ‘Deathly Hallows’ Part 2.
• In the first film, Griphook the goblin was played by Verne Troyer, one of the few Americans in the cast, but voiced by Warwick Davis (Professor Flitwick). In ‘Deathly Hallows’ Davis is both Griphook’s body and his voice, whilst continuing to play Flitwick,
• ‘Deathly Hallows’ is the first time Brendan Gleeson and David O’Hara have acted in the same film since ‘Braveheart’ in 1995. Gleeson plays ‘Mad-Eye’ Moody and O’Hara plays Albert Runcorn – the Ministry of Magic official who Harry impersonates with Polyjuice Potion in order to enter the Ministry.
• Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) considered not returning for this film as he feared he would have little or no time on screen, after his character was imprisoned at the end of the fifth book, but on meeting J.K. Rowling and begging to be released from prison, she told him ‘You’re out. Chapter One.’ and he signed on for ‘Deathly Hallows’.
• In the epilogue in ‘Deathly Hallows’ Part 2 the cast play their characters in the future, using a combination of prosthetics, computer generated imagery and convincing acting, as in ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. In this epilogue the wife of Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton), Astoria Greengrass, is played by his real life girlfriend Jade Olivia.

These facts were provided to you by Livy Watson a writer for the Telegraph

Movie: Deuces Wild (2002)

I was pretty excited because I thought I had never watched this movie before. I had. The movie takes places in the 1950’s in New York City; it is about two different street gangs who battle it out for “turf and pride” ha-ha. The Deuces are the “good” gang. They are there to protect the streets and the people, while the “bad” gang or the Vipers are determined to keep dealing drugs. James Franco plays Tino who is on the Deuces. He once again only has a few lines but is one of the close confidants to the main character Leon played by Stephen Dorff. His acting consists of “lets get them Leon” “someone needs to pay Leon” etc. It is a very bloody movie with a lot of swearing. Not sure if I would watch it again. The 50's would have been fun though.

Next up is: Mother Ghost (not sure what it is about). IMDB says his name is “skateboarder guy” sounds promising…ha-ha