Last year, while discussing the many projects he could potentially direct next, Harry Potter director David Yates said one script on his table had an “amazing role” for Potter actress Emma Watson. No other details were given at the time, but now Deadine reports that the project in question is called Your Voice In My Head, and it looks like Yates will direct it next.

Your Voice In My Head is a drama written by British author/journalist Emma Forrest which follows “a young woman who attempts suicide before being saved by a New York-based psychiatrist who’s dying of cancer.” Deep stuff all round. Sounds a bit like Oscar-bait too.

Warner Bros. is keen to keep David Yates around after what he did with the last 4 Potter movies, and the studio is apparently looking at Tom Hanks or George Clooney to play the psychiatrist role opposite Emma Watson. Before joining Potter Yates worked in TV on dramas such as State of Play, so he’ll be happy to return to smaller projects after years of wizards and dragons. No word on when filming would begin, but if things develop it could shoot sometime this year.

Watson will be seen later this year in The Perks of Being a Wallflower opposite Paul Rudd and Logan Lerman, and she may return to the fantasy genre in a live-action Beauty and the Beast movie which is being produced by Guillermo del Toro.

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Last month we heard that Emma Watson was attached to an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast which is set to be produced by Denise Di Novi (Crazy, Stupid, Love.) and Guillermo del Toro.

In a recent interview del Toro said Watson is ‘perfect for the part’, and revealed he actually hopes to direct it himself.

From MTV:

“It’s one of those landmarks, one of those holy grails, and I really hope to do it,” del Toro said. “We’re just starting the process.”

Del Toro didn’t have a timeline yet for when his first draft on “Beauty and the Beast” would be done, but he said it should be within the next few years. After all, he’d need it to be done by then for leading lady Watson to still be a prime choice for the role of the titular beauty.

“It’s a movie that you have to make in the next few years for Emma to be perfect for the part,” he said. “I think she is the perfect character to do that movie.”

Guillermo del Toro is currently preparing to shoot his epic monster movie Pacific Rim, so if he plans to direct Beauty and the Beast it would be unlikely to move forward until 2013.

Emma Watson has already started carving out a career for herself post-Harry Potter with a supporting role in My Week with Marilyn alongside Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams, and she recently finished shooting romance/drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower with Logan Lerman and Paul Rudd.

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Until about three weeks ago, I had no relationship with the Harry Potter franchise. Never read the books, never saw any of the movies. So I decided to catch up with all of the older movies and see the final film in theaters. And though some of those earlier films are hit-and-miss, I don’t regret my decision at all; the entire experience was unquestionably worth it just to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 wrap up this series in such an impressive way. People (myself included) throw around the word “epic” fairly often, but this movie is deserving of that description, instantly becoming my favorite of this franchise.

[It's nearly impossible to review this movie - or the entire Potter series, for that matter - without at least acknowledging the similarities to Lord of the Rings, another wildly successful franchise with a "hero's journey" story at its core. To list every similarity would be counterproductive for the purposes of this review, but suffice it to say there are many.]

Deathly Hallows: Part 2 picks up immediately where Part 1 left off, and thankfully has far more action and importance than its neutered predecessor. To the cynical outsider looking in, it would appear that Warner Bros. split the last book into two movies for no other reason than to make more money (a task at which Part 2 has excelled so far). But I’m actually glad they went down that path, considering how Part 2 feels like it’s stuffed to the brim as it is; audiences surely would have been cheated out of this film’s awesomeness if the writer had to cram the dullness of Part 1 into the same film. As long as Part 2 delivers – and trust me, it does – then I think it’s justifiable that we suffered through the spinning wheels of Part 1 as a pure setup for this finale.

Steve Kloves, who wrote the screenplays for all of the movies except for Order of the Phoenix (my previous favorite of the series, coincidentally), did a great job wrapping everything up and bringing closure to a series that spanned such a lengthy amount of time. Even among the minor characters, no one felt shortchanged, and the Big Three of Harry, Ron, and Hermione were given the send-off they deserved. The flashback sequence was a particularly inspired bit of writing (taken, I’m sure, from Rowling’s original novel), allowing for the dramatic reveal of Snape’s past. And to avoid spoilers, I’ll simply say I really enjoyed the way the elbents of the Deathly Hallows were used in the story.

The younger cast members improved dramatically during their ten year run bringing these characters to life, and this was a high point for each of them. I can’t wait to watch the trajectories of the main casts’ careers move forward from here; Radcliffe, in particular, I can envision becoming a Ron Howard-type: someone raised in front of the camera, but evolving into a serviceable filmmaker in his own right. I also loved seeing lower-tier characters like Neville Longbottom make an impact here in Part 2, coming full circle from his introduction as the laughable loser back in The Sorcerer’s Stone. The arcs of the Malfoys – both young and old - were also fun to watch as the movies progressed. (Villains who are THAT dramatic are always awesome.) One thing is for sure: now that this franchise is finished, cinema has lost one of the finest ensemble casts ever committed to film. It’s hard to beat names like Gary Oldman, Jason Issacs, Richard Harris, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent, Warwick Davis, and Emma Thompson when they join forces.

The visual effects in this movie were top notch, an unlike so many effects-heavy movies these days, these never elicited winces or scoffs from the audience. Director David Yates’ team worked wonders here, honing The Battle of Hogwarts into one of the best set pieces of the year. Yates’ vision has stayed consistent both with movies he’s helmed and the ones he hasn’t, recreating sets in Part 2 (the Chamber of Secrets, Gringotts, etc.) and in the process providing a great sense of geography and familiarity with the world of Harry Potter.

There’s not much else I can say without giving away massive plot points, but I think Tyler (my co-host on The Not Just New Movies Podcast) and I are planning some sort of retrospective discussion on the entire Harry Potter franchise sometime soon, so keep a lookout for that in the coming weeks. It’ll take a bit of reflection for me to be able to rank the Harry Potter films alongside my favorite movies, but as far as epic hero stories go, this saga is pretty damn impressive. Until next time…

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Emma Watson has already started carving out a career for herself post-Harry Potter with a supporting role in My Week with Marilyn alongside Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams, and she recently finished shooting romance/drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower with Logan Lerman and Paul Rudd.

Now ComingSoon has word that Watson is attached to another project. The site recently spoke to Crazy, Stupid, Love. producer Denise Di Novi and she revealed she’s developing an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast alongside Guillermo del Toro, and Emma Watson is lined up to star.

del Toro is currently preparing to shoot his epic monster movie Pacific Rim, so if he plans to direct Beauty and the Beast it would be unlikely to move forward until 2013. Last month the director expressed interest in directing Disney’s Maleficent, a live-action take on the wicked fairy godmother who cast the original spell on Sleeping Beauty, but with that unlikely to happen having Emma Watson hook up with a beast may give him his Disney-esque fantasy fill.

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Emma Watson attended the 2011 MTV Movie Awards yesterday and presented a clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. I’m sure Warner Bros. had many available clips to show, but they decided to air Voldemort’s confrontation with Harry in the forest.

Watch below:

In the film, once again directed by David Yates, Harry, Ron, and Hermione return to Hogwarts after months on the run in the wilderness with the aim of finding, and destroying, Voldemorts final horcruxes. Voldemort finds out about their mission and the biggest battle of their lives begins as the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters descend upon Hogwarts.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 will be released July 15th.

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Warner Bros. has confirmed to SnitchSeeker that new scenes from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 will be airing during the 2011 MTV Movie Awards this Sunday. Emma Watson will be presenting the new footage, which will be part of a montage of all the Harry Potter films.

“Wizard-loving fans will be treated to a never-before-seen clip from the conclusion of the two-part motion picture event. From Warner Bros. Pictures, the last installment of the epic ‘Harry Potter’ film series comes to theatres on July 15, 2011, marking the end of the most successful film franchise in movie history.”

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Back in May the cast and crew of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II got a bit of attention as they were filming at Kings Cross station in London. Due to the public setting images of Daniel Radcliffe, Bonnie Wright, Tom Felton, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson looking much older appeared online, and fans worked out that they were shooting the final scenes of the Harry Potter saga.

It seems the chaos and limited time in which they had to shoot didn’t result in the best ending possible, so director David Yates and the gang will be re-shooting parts of scene in the comfort of Leavesden Studios.

From HitFix:

“We are re-shooting some parts of it,” Radcliffe confirms. “It was an interesting one. I think we made it very hard on ourselves because we shot it at King’s Cross for real. And this time we’ll be shooting it at Leavesden on set. To have to rush that sequence and it’s an important sequence, is not something any of us want to do.

Radcliffe continued and reiterated, “It’s a train station and people actually needed to use that platform. We made it very hard on ourselves and we really want a slightly slower, more measured pace next time.”

Co-star Emma Watson later confirmed how difficult it was to shoot the scenes in a real station, describing it as a “stressful one.”

“I mean, you can imagine, we stopped trains when they said we could do the scene. I mean, we are special – we are ‘Harry Potter,’” Watson says in an intentionally sarcastic and light-hearted tone. “We only had two days to shoot it and we needed so much more time than that. We have reshoots at Christmas.”

The scene, which catches up with the trio many years after the events of Deathly Hallows, will most likely be the final scene of the whole franchise so they obviously want to get it right, and they will be able to do that back in a controlled environment.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will be released in less than a weeks time, on November 19th, and Part 2 will be released July 2011.

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Yahoo! has released what will likely be the first of many behind the scenes featurettes for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. This video is called ‘Epic Finale’ and begins with a montage of footage from the previous films, followed by a closer look at Part I.

We get to see a few new shots including more of Hagrid and Harry trying to escape from the Death Eaters, and we also get our first (blink and you’ll miss it) look at Neville on-board the Hogwarts Express.

Watch below:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is released on November 19th.

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Our first bit of Spidey villain speculation came a few months ago when Michael Fassbender was apparently wanted by Marc Webb for Spider-Man and Matthew Vaughn for X-Men: First Class. Fassbender went with Magneto, but it gave fans an idea of the type of actor Sony were after.

Now Columbia Pictures has announced that Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, next seen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) will play the villain opposite Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy.

In the press release president of Columbia Pictures Matt Tolmach said:

“We have been very fortunate to attract some of the best actors working today to play the villains in the Spider-Man movies, and it is exciting to see that trend continue with Rhys Ifans. After seeing his performance in our upcoming film Anonymous, we’re in awe of his talent and think he’s the perfect choice to take on this role.”

Director Marc Webb, who doesn’t want to reveal the identify of the villain just yet, commented:

“What sets the Spider-Man villains apart is the complexity of their relationships with Peter Parker. Rhys’ incredible ability to embody both warmth and rage makes him the ideal choice for this character.”

We can expect more casting announcements over the coming weeks as they gear up for a December shoot.

What do you think of Rhys Ifans playing the villain? Who do you think the villain will be? The Green Goblin? The Lizard?

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Even though we’ve had a number of trailers and TV spots Warner Bros. has so far only released one poster, that of Hogwarts in ruins. As the November 19th release date for Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows: Part I draws near the studio decided they better release some character posters of Harry, Ron and Hermione for the fans.

Check out the blood-splattered posters below, from Yahoo:

Here’s the most recent trailer:

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