Film and Game News Archive - June 2011
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This page is an archive of all news about the Harry Potter films and games that has been posted on The Time Turner in the month of June 2011. This month included news about the MTV Movie Awards, a new trailer and premiere competitions.
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30th June 2011 21:00 BST
New Lego Game Screenshots
Earlier today, the official Harry Potter UK Facebook page released five new photos from the upcoming Lego release, Harry Potter Years 5-7. The photos look fantastic and the graphics look even better than the previous Lego Harry Potter game, Years 1-4. The game is due to be released at the end of the year.
30th June 2011 20:41 BST
London Premiere Competitions
Two competitions to win a pair of tickets to the London premiere have been announced - one by the official Harry Potter UK Facebook page and one by Play.com. The competitions are open to UK residents and allow the winner(s) to see the film with the stars on the 7th July in Leicester Square, London. It sounds like a very exciting prize and the lucky winner(s) will certainly have a day to remember!
20th June 2011 12:05 BST
Potter World Cup Starts Today
MTV are starting the Harry Potter World Cup today to determine who really is the greatest Harry Potter character. The voting has been organised into sections and brackets, with voting continuing until the New York premiere of Deathly Hallows Part 2. James and Oliver Phelps, who play Fred and George Weasley, have been involved in the project.
17th June 2011 00:05 BST
New Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Trailer
The new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 trailer is now up on the Apple website. Watch it now - I dare you not to be amazed and excited by such a dramatic and action-packed trailer. It includes some truly fantastic snippets including Voldemort and Harry edging towards the Elder Wand, a Snape scene, a dragon scene, Lily talking to baby Harry and McGonagall guarding the school, all set to some wonderfully haunting and intense music. It also includes some great Hermione and Ron moments as well as appearances from Sirius, Professor Flitwick and the final battle scene itself.
15th June 2011 22:17 BST
Trailer Set to be Released Tomorrow
After about a week of speculation and rumours, MuggleNet have confirmed that there will be a new Harry Potter trailer released tomorrow at 4PM PT! It will be released on the Apple website. Updates will come when the trailer has been released.
15th June 2011 16:59 BST
Many more posters!
They just keep on coming! Even more fantastic Part 2 posters have been released over the past few days by the official Harry Potter Twitter account. They have released one of Harry, Ron and Hermione and one of Voldemort, Bellatrix and Lucius.
9th June 2011 15:42 BST
Even more DH Posters
Not one, not two, but ELEVEN new Deathly Hallows posters were released in The Sun newspaper yesterday. They are of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, Voldemort, Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange, Fred and George Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Minerva McGonagall and Griphook. They all look amazing and will hopefully be used alongside the ten posters that were released previously. All in all, that makes 21 fantastic posters - what lucky fans we are!
8th June 2011 15:30 BST
5000 Fans in One Poster!
The Harry Potter UK Facebook page has just set up a new poster/mosaic competition. All you have to do is enter a photo of yourself, which, along with 4999 other fans' photos, will make up one huge mosaic of the Harry/Voldemort Deathly Hallows poster! All those who enter will be in with the chance of winning one of these cool poster mosaics. Entrants must be residents in the UK or Ireland and must be over the age of 13. Hurry up and enter that photo, as only the first 5000 entries will be included in the poster!
7th June 2011 20:58 BST
Grint in 'Wartime Wanderers'
It has been announced that Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) will hopefully be starring in a new film, 'Wartime Wanderers', which is set to start filming this summer for a 2012 release. Grint will play Ernie Forrest, a footballer at the Bolton Wanderers football club during the wartime era. The film is currently in the pre-production stages, but it currently set to star Jonathan Pryce, Matthew McNulty, Sean McGuire and Bradley Walsh alongside Rupert Grint.
7th June 2011
50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments for ITV
The Harry Potter UK Facebook page now offers the chance to vote for your 25 favourite movie moments from the Harry Potter film series for a '50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments' programme which will air on ITV (UK) later in the year. Scenes include the introduction of Dobby, the first Quidditch match and Harry and Hermione's dance. Watch out though, the list includes spoilers from the latest film (Part 1)! Voting ends on the 15th June at midnight.
6th June 2011
MTV Movie Awards: Tom Felton and Avada Kedavra
At the MTV Movie Awards last night, Tom Felton, who plays Draco Malfoy, was voted by fans as the 'Best Villain' in a film. He beat Christopher Waltz (The Green Hornet), Leighton Meester (The Roommate), Mickey Rourke (Iron Man 2) and Ned Beatty (Toy Story 3) for the honour. Harry Potter was nominated for six awards this year, including 'Best Movie', 'Best Kiss' (Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson), 'Best Fight' (Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint vs. Death Eaters - Rod Hunt and Arden Bajraktaraj), 'Best Female Performance' (Emma Watson) and 'Best Male Performance' (Daniel Radcliffe). Well done to Tom and all of the other Potter nominees! A new clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 also debuted at the MTV Movie Awards. The nail-biting teaser clip includes Harry, Voldemort and Hagrid as Voldemort utters those famous words - 'Avada Kedavra'...
4th June 2011
Final Two Character Posters
Bellatrix and Snape have now been immortalised in the final two character posters for Deathly Hallows Part 2, as released by the Harry Potter UK Facebook page. We think they look great! Leave your thoughts in the comments below.