Two of America’s top authors have pleaded with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling not to kill off the young wizard in the final book of the series.

John Irving (The World According to Garp) said ‘my fingers are crossed for Harry’ at a joint news conference before a charity reading by the three writers in New York. Horror maestro Stephen King also begged the British author to spare the bespectacled wand wielder. The two writers join legions of fans who are petitioning Rowling not to kill off their hero in the seventh book of the series.

source: ITV

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Eva Green who appears as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale has been cast as Serafina Pekkala, the Queen of Witches in His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass, the first film in a planned trilogy.

The Golden Compass is New Line Cinema’s film adaptation of the first book in Philip Pullman’s Carnegie Medal-winning His Dark Materials series, a dimension-crossing odyssey that builds from a merely atypical children’s adventure into a complex (and frequently quite dark) philosophical epic.

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A revolutionary new performance capture system created by a former Apple Computer engineer is set to revolutionise cinema according to the New York Times.

The system is able to produce highly realistic synthespians (synethetic CG characters), by mimicing the facial expressions of real actors to a far greater degree of accuracy than is possible by existing technologies. Rather than capturing points on the face as was used  in The Polar Express and Monster House, the Contour system is able to capture an actor’s entire skin.

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The international one sheet has arrived for The Wicker Man. You can view it in our gallery by clicking here.

The film is about a sheriff who travels to an island to investigate the disappearance of a young girl. Once there, he discovers that the inhabitants are members of a strange pagan community and he embarks on a mission to uncover their dark secrets. The Wicker Man is a remake of the classic 1973 British horror movie starring Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee.

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