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DVD Talk posted their review of Emma Watson’s TV movie, Ballet Shoes. The review is fairly positive and below is an excerpt:

“Ballet Shoes” features a wonderful mixture of veterans and newcomers, and the blend proves useful to the material’s themes of hesitant personal development. Of course, all eyes are on Watson here, in her first major role away from the Hermione comfort zone. The young star fits right in as the hopeful actress, giving the camera a tart offering of ego and combustible English pride.

To read the whole article, click on the link above.

***thanks to DVDtalk.com***

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WB has released a new HBP picture featuring Harry, Ron and Ginny at the burrow during Christmas. There is also now a high-res picture of Harry and Draco (by James Dimmock) that was released by Entertainment Weekly during their fall movie preview issue.

***thanks to snitchseeker.com***

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New scans of Emma from the newest edition of the Italian Vogue has surfaced.

To view these images head to our forums. Or click here to be directly taken to the pics

Stunning…absolutely Stunning.

Possibly the BEST photo shoot to date.

Thank YOU Emma!!!

Enjoy!

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The Half-Blood Prince has been voted as the Most Anticipated Movie of 2009 in a poll conducted by Fandango.com, the leading moviegoer destination.  More than 3,000 respondents took part in the poll, where they pick one film they are most looking forward to seeing in the coming months. Potter beat out its competition earning 43% of the vote. Other movies in its category are Transformers 2, Night at the Museum, Watchmen and Star Trek.

To view the complete list, click on the link above.

***thanks to marketwatch.com***

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Blog Critics has posted a review of Emma Watson’s TV movie adaptation of Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes. Its a fairly positive review of the film, with praise for the cast and adaptation. Here is an excerpt:

Although in an intelligent and thoughtful twenty minute interview included on the DVD, Emma Watson admits that she’d never read the 1936 classic, she phoned her grandmother who shared her own love for Ballet Shoes as a girl, saying that it was not only a personal favorite but changed her outlook on life in its illustration that everything is possible. And it’s that message that still shines through more than seventy years later in this delightful and high quality adaptation.

With gorgeous cinematography by Catherine Ashmore (view the photo gallery), Ballet Shoes is one of those enchanting movies that, although set in the 1930s, seems all the more incredible for the vital pre-feminist messages set forth by Streatfeild in her text. As the girls routinely state on their birthdays and Christmas that “we three Fossils vow to put our name in the history books, because it is ours, and ours alone and no one can say it’s because of our grandfathers,” they truly seek to achieve their dreams on their own terms, never taking shortcuts or depending on a man to get them there and it’s all the more amazing when you realize the original publication date of the novel.

Featuring subtitles for the deaf and hearing-impaired along with deleted scenes, the beautiful DVD transfer also includes a valuable interview with Watson sure to impress her fans as she compares and contrasts working on this film with Potter and reflects on the film itself, as well as an audiobook excerpt (read by Elizabeth Sastre) and limited edition mini-poster.

To read the whole review, click on the link above.

***thanks to blogcritics.com***

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Thanks to SCQ member daniemma, we have a new interview of Emma Watson courtesy of Alloy.com. Here is an excerpt:.

So what was it like doing something other than a Harry Potter movie?
It was wonderful. It was really nice to do something completely different. Obviously, we did it for the BBC, which is a British television channel. It was done in a TV format, so it was completely different to being on a massive big Hollywood blockbuster. We shot four scenes in one day and we were working six-day weeks. It was much more the crew and it was very different but I absolutely loved it. It was different.

What was it like working without Rupert and Daniel?
It was nice to be with lots of girls. It was a really nice change because usually on Potter I’m with guys all the time and I was with Lucy [Boynton] and Yasmin [Paige] and Emilia [Fox] and Victoria [Wood] everyday. That was really nice. It was lovely.

How did it feel doing a more straightforward film with no special effects?
Yeah, that was actually lovely. That was really nice not to having to worry so much about the technical aspect of it, just focus on the acting.

What was it like playing Pauline as opposed to Hermione?
One of the great things is that in playing Pauline, I got to dress up and be much more girly. She’s an actress, I got to dress up as Alice in Wonderland and there’s a part in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Then she’s in this film that’s a period piece, so I got to wear a corset and an old dress and a wig. I got to have so much fun with all the ’30s make-up. It was really good fun to do something that was out of school uniform and out of jeans and a t-shirt and something completely different. It was lovely.

Click on the link above to read the whole interview.

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