SYDNEY — British actress Googie Withers, a Hollywood golden age staple best known for her appearance in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes,” has died at her home in Australia. She was 94.
Born Georgette Lizette Withers in what was then British India, she was given her lifetime nickname by her Indian nanny.
Her family moved back to Britain where she began acting at age 12. Read full article…
LOS ANGELES — Harry Potter has cast his biggest spell yet with a record-breaking first day at the box office for his final film.
Distributor Warner Bros. reports that “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2″ summoned up $92.1 million domestically on opening day Friday.
That’s nearly $20 million more than the previous record-holder, “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which took in $72.7 million in its first day two years ago.
The film added $75 million in 57 overseas countries Friday, raising its international total to $157.5 million since it began rolling out Wednesday. That gives the film a worldwide total of about $250 million.
Among its first-day totals Friday was $14.8 million in Great Britain, which Warner Bros.
The World Cup is over, the world premieres have come and gone, and now it’s finally time to start saying goodbye to “Harry Potter.”
Tune into MTV Movies Blog all week long for our series of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2″ primers, where we’ll look back on each film in the series and highlight the details you need to remember going into the grand finale. For a full recap on the previous films, head here!
After the jump, we break down some integral moments from “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” that end up being very important come the series’ conclusion.
How To Make A Horcrux “Order of the Phoenix” also marks the first introduction to the concept of a horcrux, and from here on out it ends up being horcruxes that are the major focal point of the series.
In ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2,’ the character of Neville Longbottom (played by Matthew Lewis) finally emerges as the brave leader that his placement in Gryffindor House promised so many years ago. It’s been quite a trip for Neville, having started out as a very timid first-year who could barely keep track of his pet toad, Trevor. Along the way, he joined Dumbledore’s Army and learned to defend himself and his friends against dark magic, even when it seemed crazy to think that this weakling of a boy could ever match the courage of his parents, former members of the Order of the Phoenix who were tortured to the point of insanity by the Death Eater Bellatrix Lestrange. Read full article…
Arnold Schwarzenegger said he’d be back.
A spokesman for the former governor says Schwarzenegger will return to acting with a role in the Lionsgate film “Last Stand.” The role represents Schwarzenegger’s first major movie role since 2003′s “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.” He made a cameo appearance in last summer’s “The Expendables.”
Spokesman Daniel Ketchell confirmed Tuesday that Schwarzenegger will appear in the Western flick but did not elaborate. Lionsgate declined comment Tuesday.
Schwarzenegger said in May that he was putting his acting projects on hold after disclosing that he fathered a child with a family housekeeper and splitting with wife Maria Shriver.
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In a few hours the lines will start to form. There will be rows and rows of people dressed in Hogwarts’ attire with tiny little light bolts drawn on their foreheads, all waiting for the end to begin. Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part II hits theaters at midnight, but there’s a lot more things happening than just the release of the movie. There’s everything
Actor Daniel Baldwin has filed for divorce and been granted a restraining order against his wife, claiming she punched him, threatened him with a knife in front of the couple’s children and made threats of violence and death “too numerous to list.”
Baldwin, 50, said police told him to take his children out of the couple’s house on Sunday, where he said the children witnessed his wife punching him in the face.
Joanne Baldwin, 41, was arrested Wednesday night for violating her parole on a drunken driving conviction.
She has been jailed, and the police chief in Lake Oswego, the wealthy suburb where the couple has lived since 2010, said she isn’t expected to be released until a hearing Wednesday.
Jail records do not show whether Joanne Baldwin has hired an attorney, and the jail does not permit phone interviews
Don Forman, the interim police chief in Lake Oswego, said Joanne Baldwin surrendered Wednesday in response to a warrant alleging she had violated terms of her probation from an earlier conviction for driving under the influence.
“One of our police staffers called her and strongly suggested that she turn herself in,” Forman said.
She was arraigned Wednesday and is being held until a hearing next week, Forman said.
LOS ANGELES — Hollywood is becoming even more reliant on one of India’s biggest media companies.
Reliance MediaWorks, a division of Indian media conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, said Monday that it has partnered with the Venice, Calif., visual-effects house Digital Domain Productions Inc. to open studios in London and Mumbai, underscoring the increasingly global nature of California’s visual-effects industry.
The new studios will provide a variety of postproduction services for movies, TV shows and commercials. The facilities will be owned by Reliance, which has existing postproduction facilities in London and Mumbai, and managed by Digital Domain, which recently handled visual effects work for “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” and “Thor.” Financial terms were not disclosed. <