Helen McCrory to play Narcissa Malfoy

CBBC Newsround is reporting that Helen McCrory, british actress is all set to play as Bellatrix Lestrange's evil sister, Narcissa Malfoy, wife of Lucious Malfoy and mother of Draco.

Also, the site reports that an"announcement on who will play young Tom Riddle and Lavender Brown is expected very soon."

This is noticable that Helen was orginally casted for Bellatrix's role but she gave up due to her pregnancy.

Dan to perform Equus again in Broadway

Daniel Radcliffe, has confirmed to his fansite, DanRadcliffe.com , that he will reprise his role with Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) in critically acclaimed play 'Equus'. Dan recently has done this role in West End, London. The Daily Mail is also reporting today that the play will go into rehearsals in New York City starting August of 2008.

However, there is no information about tickets, or more details.

DVD trailer and National Awards

The DVD Trailer for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has just arrived. Although it contains nothing very special, but it can be seen here--



And a very very cool news. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has won 3 out of 6 awards at ITV's National Awards. OOTP has won best family film award, Dan won the Best Male Actor award and Emma won best female actor award. Isn't its great!

And here's the video:-



The whole even will air ITV1 UK (unfortunately not in India) tommorrow.

Dan is forever Harry Potter on-screen for HP movies

So, atlast Harry Potter till the end will be Daniel Radcliffe will be acting as Harry James Potter.
As a publicist tells us, he as signed for both Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows. So, I think most of you must be happy!
HBP's shoot will start this year around September-October.

Rup and Phelps twins to attend NME Awards

Rupert Grint, with his co-stars, James and Oliver Phelps (they play Fred and George's role) are going to attend NME Awards (these are music awards) tonight at London. You can see some pics here .

NEWS ROUND: DAN

There are two news for Dan for today. In first-one, Telegraph newspaper posted an interview with Dan in which he told about Equus, his career choices as an actor and taking on a part in this serious play.

According to Newspaper,

"JR Maiming a horse is a far cry from riding a hippogriff, isn't it?
DR Completely. There came a point on the third Potter film when I thought, acting is what I want to do. I thought it would be a bad idea to wait till the Potter films were all finished to do something else. There are certain people who will be more than happy to see you in any other role you like, and there will be some who will never, ever see you as anything other than Harry Potter. Once you've accepted that, it's fine - you just do whatever you like. With this, they can say I'm good or terrible but the one thing they can't say is I haven't challenged myself."

In the second news, Forbes mag has released "Young Hollywood's Top-Earning Stars", in which he has been ranked at No. 2, earning over$13 million USD (around 574 crores) for OOTP movie.

News Tip : TLC

Gambon: Dan is growing up

In a recent interview, Michael Gambon aka Dumbledore talked about Harry Potter and Daniel Radcliffe's west-end debut, Equus.
He said : "I was in the makeup chair recently, and someone brought in two kids. I peeled the beard off, and they started crying. They couldn't believe what they were seeing."
Talking about Dan he said: He's growing up. He's a proper theater actor now. He's naked in this thing, so all the girls will go out and see it. I'd be frightened running around the stage with nothing on at all. When you stop running, one thing keeps moving. I bet he didn't think of that."