Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince nominated for Visual Effects Society award
The Visual Effects Society , “the entertainment industry’s only organization representing the full breadth of visual effects practitioners including artists, technologists, model makers, educators, studio leaders, supervisors, PR/marketing specialists and producers in all areas of entertainment from film, television and commercials to music videos and games”, has nominated Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince for the category of Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature...

Harry Potter 6 up for Visual Effects Society award
Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:41 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been nominated for a Visual Effects Society award in the category of "Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture." The ceremony will take place on February 28th at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

Half-Blood Prince nominated for RAFAs
The soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , composed by Nicholas Hooper, is one of 19 scores competing for the Classic FM Film Music of the Year prize at the Richard Attenborough Film Awards. The second annual awards show will be held on January 28th and this prize will be presented by Simon Bates, who DJs for the station. You can vote for the sixth movie and its soundtrack here . The poll closes on January 25th at midnight (GMT). Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has...

Star Trek Nominated For 2 Visual Effects Society Awards
Star Trek VFX nominated Star Trek was nominated in two of the feature film categories. Best visual effects in a visual effects driven motion picture and Best matte paintings. Here are the details for Trek’s two categories. Visual effects in a visual effects driven feature motion picture

No surprise that 'Avatar' leads with 11 VES nominations
"Avatar" leads with 11 nominations at the eighth annual Visual Effects Society awards fest. In the VES equivalent of a best picture race -- visual effects in a visual effects-driven feature motion picture -- "Avatar" contends against "District 9," "Star Trek," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "2012." All five of those films -- as well as "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" and "Terminator:...

HBP Up for VES Award
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince received a Visual Effects Society nomination for Outstanding Matte Paintings in a Feature Motion Picture for the 8th annual VES awards. The movie is up against Star Trek, Avatar and Franklyn. The ceremony will take place on February 28, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Thanks to UHP!

Stroma joins Twitter!
Another Harry Potter actor has joined the relams of Twitter, this time Freddie Stroma, Cormac McLaggen in the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince movie. Fellow co-star Matthew Lewis, Neville Longbottom, stated: I think everyone should follow my terribly good looking friend @freddiestroma . You'll like him. ->Stefan<-

Movie fans flocking to the cinemas
A SLEW of blockbuster movie sequels, the rising popularity of 3D and the instant success of Avatar has led to Australia's biggest year at the Box Office. Australians spent $1.09 billion going to the movies last year, a 15 per cent increase on the $946 million spent in 2008. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was the highest grossing film of last year, taking $40.6 million to just pip Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen , which grossed $40.3 million. Avatar is now Australia's...

UK cinema grosses at seven-year high
By Lewis Bazley . A host of blockbuster releases in the last 12 months saw UK Box Office attendances reach their highest level since 2002, it has been announced. According to the UK Film Council, 173.9 million customers were admitted to cinemas in the UK, with takings up 11 per cent from the previous year and reaching

'HBP' garners two BAFTA nominations
have been announced and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has garnered two nods for production design and visual effects. The awards show will take place in London on Sunday, February 21st, and is usually broadcast on BBCAmerica in the States. Categories

Seven Year High For UK Box Office
It's been a good year for cinema in the UK with the likes of New Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the Box Office has grossed £944 million. Despite the Recession film lovers have flocked to cinemas to catch all the latest releases as the Film Council revealed that attendances were at 172.9 million. John Woodward, chief executive officer of the UK Film Council told Digital Spy: "Taken together, these Box Office and inward investment numbers...

Bellatrix Lestrange Photos from Deathly Hallows
" onclick="return fbs_click()" target="_blank" class="fb_share_link">Share on Facebook Here’s a few behind the scenes photos of Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange on set of the upcoming film “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” by director David Yates (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone), Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter (Alice in Wonderland), Alan Rickman (The Villa Golitsyn)...

Seven Year High For UK Box Office
It's been a good year for cinema in the UK with the likes of New Moon, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince the Box Office has grossed £944 million. Despite the Recession film lovers have flocked to cinemas to catch all the latest releases as the Film Council revealed that attendances were at 172.9 million. John Woodward, chief executive officer of the UK Film Council told Digital Spy: "Taken together, these Box Office and inward investment numbers...

Harry Potter 6 up for two BAFTA awards
Thursday, 21 January 2010 17:29 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has been nominated for two gongs at the 2010 BAFTA Awards! The categories include Production Design and Visual Effects. The Awards ceremony will take place at the Royal Opera House in London, England on February 21st, with the show airing on BBC, with a Red Carpet show will air prior to the coverage, on BBC3. Thanks to UHP !

Harry Potter 6 si prepara per gli Oscar
Fonte: Warner Sul sito ufficiale allestito dalla Warner Bros.per promuovere i film che intende proporre per gli Oscar c'è spazio anche per Harry Potter e il Principe Mezzosangue . Il film è il primo della lista, che comprende anche The Informant , Nel Paese delle Creature Selvagge , Invictus , The Blind Side , e Sherlock Holmes . La Warner proporrà il kolossal in tutte le categorie, compreso miglior film, miglior sceneggiatura adattata e miglior regista, e ha...

British cinema admissions rocket
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and The Hangover have helped boost UK cinema admissions to their highest levels since 2002.

Has Simon Pegg Been Cast in Harry Potter?
Posted on Thursday, January 21st, 2010 by Peter Sciretta I know this is extremely speculative (and yes, we’re being very up front about that fact), but Harry Potter fans have begun to speculate that Star Trek/Shaun of the Dead Star Simon Pegg has scored a cameo or small role in the last installments of the Harry Potter film series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows .

UK film admissions at 7-year high in 2009
London (Reuters) - Film admissions in Britain hit 173.5 million in 2009, the highest level since 2002 and up 5.6 percent from 2008, according to a review of last year by the UK Film Council published on Tuesday. The total Box Office gross hit 944 million pounds, an increase of 11 percent on 2008. Including Ireland, the figure rose to 1.05 billion pounds, the first time it has topped the billion-pound mark. The biggest film of the year was "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" with takings of...

Alexandre Desplat to compose Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I
Film Score Monthly French composer and two time Oscar nominee Alexandre Desplat will score Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I . Desplat has scored films such as The Golden Compass , The Queen , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , New Moon and Julie & Julia . Nicholas Hooper composed the scores for Order of the Phoenix and Half-Blood Prince (both great), however he decided not to return due to family commitments and he thought a certain composer named John Williams...

HBP earns two BAFTA nominations
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced their list of nominees for this year’s Orange British Film Awards. The sixth Potter film, The Half-Blood Prince has been honored with two nominations , both for the technical aspects of the film. Stuart Craig and Stephenie McMillian were honored with a nomination for the Best Production Design whilst the special effects team of HBP were honored with a nomination for Best Special Visual Effects. The annual Orange British...

HBP Up for BAFTA Awards
As I posted 2 weeks ago, Half-Blood Prince was long-listed for a few categories in the BAFTA Awards (Make-Up & Hair, Special Visual Effects, Sound, Costume Design, Production Design, Cinematography).

TrekInk: Review of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Fool's Gold #2
written by Scott and David Tipton, art by Fabio Mantovani Deep Space Nine is overrun by visitors claiming to be sightseers. Operations is barely able to avert a docking pylon disaster. O’Brien is certain that all the damage to the station is being done by someone looking for something. While sick bay fills up with injured tourists, Sisko has an unsatisfactory chat with Gul Dukat looking for information. Odo and Kira interrogate the visitors who injured Jake, playing on their fears....

Watch Great New Short Fan Film: Star Wars vs Star Trek - The Final Battle?
Here is the new short film by Billy Parker According to Parker, the film took him only three weeks to make. Parker combined music and sounds from the new movie with a CGI model of the original Enterprise (created by our old friend Jason Lee, the maker of 2007’s ‘ Foolerprise ‘). Parker tells TrekMovie the reason he used the TOS ship is because he didn’t know how to get a model of the new one and he had the TOS ship available. I think it looks pretty cool combined with...

Chris Pine and Olivia Munn Split? A Rumor Debunked
Did you hear the one about Chris Pine and Olivia Munn breaking up ? Don't believe the hype. Sure enough, the Star Trek ker and Attack of the Show! babe did attend a party separately on Friday. But that does not a split make. First, Chris arrived solo at the New York Times Style Magazine pre-Globes party at Chateau Marmont, where he hung with his friends. Olivia showed up at the same Star-studded party later. She immediately began asking guests if Chris left. He had, and she departed...

Chris Pine and Olivia Munn - Over Before It Started?
Is the hot, new coupling of Star Trek’s Chris Pine and G4’s Attack of the Show Olivia Munn over before it started? Say it ain’t so - and E! Online cleared that rumor up for us: it ain’t.Although the couple appeared and left separately at the New York Times...