Radcliffe is best known for his portrayal of the bespectacled wizard “Harry Potter,” the hugely successful series of feature films based on J. K. Rowling’s publishing phenomenon and has starred in all eight films.

Peppered with a little wit, which will elicit gasps and chuckles, there’s a fair amount of predictability given how well audiences know these characters.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated the drama “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” for six Oscar nominations.

Los Angeles Mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa will shoot a scene with Susan Lucci, who plays Erica Kane on “All My Children”.

LOS ANGELES _ A musical about moviemaking, a World War II tale about Nazi-killing Jews and an otherworldly space drama are top contenders at Friday’s Critics’ Choice Awards.
“Nine” and “Inglourious Basterds” come into the contest with 10 nominations each. James Cameron’s “Avatar” collected nine nods. All three are up for best picture, along with “An [...]

“It’s a very smart movie and I fought to get the part,” he says. “I hadn’t done a movie in this genre and the role wasn’t written for an African American and the director didn’t want an African American to be the lead. So there was a campaign that had to take place on my behalf to prove and convince the studio I was right for it.”

Clint Eastwood will be on Maui next month to film a portion of his new movie, “Hereafter.”
Maui County Film Commissioner Benita Brazier said Monday that after searching the Hawaiian Islands for three months, the production found what it was looking for on Maui.
Brazier says that from an economic perspective, it’s a nice way to begin [...]

Nelson Mandela made it clear that Morgan Freeman was the man he would want to play him in a film.
When it came time to play Mandela in “Invictus,” Freeman told producing partner Lori McCreary that he had two men in mind to direct the film, which dramatizes Mandela’s partnership with a South African rugby star [...]

In a statement Wednesday, Sarkozy hailed President Barack Obama’s new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan as “courageous, determined and lucid” and pledged France’s full support. But he stopped short of committing additional French troops.

Based in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Nicolas Cage plays Lieutenant Terence McDonagh, a high functioning, deeply intuitive drug addict who is saddled with an agonizing back problem — an ailment Cage aptly portrays with a hunched back