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A YOUNG actor will swap the stage for the big screen after landing a mystery role in the new Harry Potter film.

Taylor Triphook, 11, was over the moon to be chosen to star alongside Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.

But Warner Bros are keeping his role a secret - he won't find out more about his character until he starts filming in September.

Taylor said: "I can't wait to see and take part in such a huge film with so many famous actors.

"My dream is to perform on the West End stage and hopefully this will bring me closer."

Taylor found out about the role last Friday and his parents immediately arranged for him to have time off from St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School, in Grays, for filming.

Proud dad, Tony, 53, of Meesons Lane, Grays, said: "Warner Bros won't tell us what part he is playing but he had to get permission to take the time off school.

"We're so proud of him.

"He has been so close before and was a reserve on Les Miserables.

He also narrowly missed out on a role in The Sound of Music."

Taylor hones his singing, acting and dancing talents at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, where Corringham celebrity Denise Van Outen was a student.

He will film his scenes for the sixth installment of the series, called Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, over a six-month period in Hertfordshire.

The film will follow Harry in his sixth year at Hogwarts as Lord Voldemort and his death eaters are wreaking havoc throughout the wizarding world.

11:43am Wednesday 27th June 2007

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New Delhi, July 13 (IANS) 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix' opened to a mixed response from the audience who could not accept the modification of facts of J.K. Rowling's book, although they liked the film's improved animation.

'This film has great animation. I loved it. But the movie could have been better. I have seen the previous Harry Potter movies more than once but I will not come to see this one again,' said 15-year-old Rajesh Bhatt.

'There is an extent to which you can change facts from the original book. If someone has read the book, he will not be able to relate to some parts of the movie. I hated it. It felt like the director has made his own Harry Potter,' said 21-year-old Andan Kidwai.

The latest Potter movie has broken all records in box office openings worldwide and is the fifth in the widely popular series. It shows Harry's friends doubting his ability to face the evil Lord Voldemort.

The first four Potter movies have generated around $3.5 billion for Warner Bros., the Hollywood studio that has produced and distributed the films.

Despite the mixed response, tickets are sold out for the weekend in most of the theatres.

'We are completely sold out from Friday evening to Monday morning,' said Gautam Dutta, CEO of PVR Cinemedia. 'There are a lot of bulk bookings and this is one film which all the families are coming to watch. It is not just attracting kids but appealing to audiences from 8 years to 35 years.'

Harry Potter is a rage among children in the country with the books getting out of print before their release due to the large number of advance bookings.

Huge hype had been created in India ahead of the release of 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'. Leading newspapers are giving full-page coverage to Potter mania while multiplexes have put up special cut-outs resembling the Hogwarts School of Magic at theatre entrances.

Harry Potter's Hermione turns to modelling

As Harry Potter's sidekick Hermione Granger, she plays the perfect pupil with a butter-wouldn't-melt smile.

But as these pictures of Emma Watson prove, the 17-year-old is growing up fast.

In a photoshoot for Tatler, the young actress swapped her neatly pressed Hogwarts school uniform for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel dresses, cutting an assured figure.

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All grown up: 17-year-old Emma shows how mch she's changed in her new Tatler fashion shoot

But despite stepping out on the celebrity social circuit recently, Emma, from Oxford, said she remains reassuringly "normal".

"People who try to hide from fame can make it go completely the wrong way," she tells the magazine.

"All those huge designer shades make them look like bugs!

"And walking around with bodyguards draws more attention to you. I think the best way to cope is to try and live as normal a life as possible."

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Despite her new modelling career, Emma insists she is going to go to university to study philosophy

Part of that plan is to continue her education.

She is taking AS-levels in English literature, geography and art history and hopes to study philosophy at Cambridge University.

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Emma has become a regular on red carpet but says she still leads a 'normal life'

But Potter fans need not worry: the latest instalment of the popular film series, Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix, opens on July 13, and Emma says she "definitely intends" to do another one.

She admitted: "I would do Harry Potter for nothing. It's not really anything to do with money."

The young actress swaps her neatly pressed Hogwarts school uniform for Yves Saint Laurent

'Some people will absolutely loathe it'

As an off-camera film-maker offers his congratulations, Rowling, 41, says: "Thank you...yeah, you don't know, it might be rubbish. Some people will loathe it, they will absolutely loathe it. For some people to love it, other people must loathe it. That's just in the nature of the plot."

She adds, "I'm actually really, really happy with it", before bowing her head on the keyboard to exclaim: "Oh my God!"

The remarkable footage is from ITV's documentary A Year in the Life...JK Rowling which it says has been made with "unprecedented" behind-the-scenes access.

Excerpts released at STV's scheduled launch in Glasgow yesterday might add fuel to the conspiracy theory gripping Potter fans across the globe - that the boy wizard Harry dies at the end of the seventh and final novel. The rumour mill has gone into frenzied overdrive in the run-up to the worldwide release of the last Potter novel on 21 July.

Rowling has remained enigmatic about the fate of the character who first appeared ten years ago in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. However, she has also done little to dampen speculation that dark clouds are gathering over her bespectacled hero. In a recent interview, the Edinburgh writer - who was filmed finishing the last book in room 652 of the city's Balmoral Hotel - confessed she "sobbed her heart out" and downed a half bottle of champagne in one after penning the final words.

If tragedy is looming, it may well be the climax of the eternal fight between good and evil. In the documentary, Rowling describes her works as "profoundly moral", adding: "I think it is a lie to pretend that even children of 11 don't have to make moral decisions. I think it's an outrageous black lie."

The last novel in the Potter series is virtually guaranteed to become the fastest selling book in history. The publisher, Bloomsbury, is thought to have delayed final printing until the last moment possible to minimise the chances of it leaking, and the documentary follows the completed manuscript's delivery in a locked suitcase to Rowling's agent at Heathrow Airport.

It also emerges that Castle Duart on Mull is one of the real-life locations that inspired parts of the Potter saga.

Potter fans across the country yesterday had the chance to catch preview screenings of the latest film in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Glasgow's Cineol cinema showed it no fewer than 22 times

and nearly all showings were either sold out or had only "limited availability".

Many critics have praised the film as the strongest of the series, and on the whole those watching in Glasgow agreed.

Rona Scott, 19, from Airdrie, said: "As we were sitting watching it, I thought 'this has to be the best one yet'. It remained pretty true to the basic plot of the books."

Martin McLeay, from Glasgow, said: "It's a lot darker than the others. There are very few laughs in it and you could see the characters were getting older. But we all enjoyed it."

IS THIS THE OPENING OF THE FINAL NOVEL?

A PRINTED manuscript in the documentary trailer shows what appears to be the opening sentence of the last novel.

When it was written is unclear; a note written in pen on the manuscript refers to a version saved on computer dated 23 October, 2006.

However, JK Rowling reportedly worked on the final draft up until January this year. Some scenes in the book are thought to have been planned by Rowling more than a decade ago.

MAGIC AT THE BOX OFFICE

HARRY Potter and the Order of the Phoenix netted magical box-office takings of just over 36 million on its first night of release.

In the United States alone, eager fans bought 22 million worth of tickets as thousands flocked to special midnight screenings yesterday.

The figures smashed the previous record for a Wednesday night opening in the US, which was held by Spider-Man 2, released in 2004.

The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book was published on 21 June, 2003, and that day it sold almost seven million copies in Britain and the US.

The first four Potter films, starting with Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone have generated 1.7 billion in worldwide ticket sales for Warner Bros

Source-https://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=3&id=1091 272007

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