During the Today Show broadcast from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Ann Curry revealed the reason for Emma’s absence from the Grand Opening ceremonies: Emma is currently filming a new movie. We have no further details at this time, but we’ll let you know when we do.

What do you think the movie could be?

Update: Until there is some official confirmation, this should be considered a rumor.

Another bit of news, in a red carpet interview, James Phelps mentioned how Emma celebrated the end of filming, “The last week of filming Emma had a dinner at her place, and we spoke about the best moments of filming, our secret crushes on set

The Grand Opening of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is this Friday the 18th. Press events began today and will continue through the week. A number of HP cast members are attending. There is no official word yet about Emma, but it’s not looking good. She was not there at a press conference earlier today.

Two events will be broadcast live on the internet at this link. A Celebrity Preview, which is not open to the public, takes place later today from 9:30 – 10:00PM EDT, and then the Official Grand Opening ceremony is on Friday morning from 9:00 to 9:30AM EDT.

The July Calendar competition is now open.

• The size of the calendar should be a minimum 1024×768. Higher resolutions are good. Widescreen is also allowed.
• Calendars must be in a common graphics format such as jpg, tiff, gif or png.
• It must have Emma-Watson.net and July and it should have the dates and should be mostly original work.
• The deadline to submit calendars is June 26.
• No more than 3 entries per person please. All entries must be sent to emmawatson.graphics@gmail.com

We’ve added a bunch of new fan graphics to the site. There are new restyles from Elena, Lisa, Amy, Cassie and Brandon. A new banner from Elena. And wallpapers from Adrian, Aaron, Alyssa, Hara and Julian. Thank you all for sending them in.

We also have a few new old pics. Cynthia sent us a couple nice pictures of Emma at the Order of the Phoenix premiere in LA, and Chiera sent in this cute pic from the Half-Blood Prince premiere in New York. Thank you.both.

The end of an Era – today is officially the last day of principal photography on ‘Harry Potter’ – ever. I feel honoured to be here as the director shouts cut for the very last time. Farewell Harry & Hogwarts, it’s been magic! x

People Tree has announced the winner of their “How do you wear yours?” competition. Contestants sent in pictures of themselves wearing clothes from the “Love from Emma” range and wrote about their style tips. Congratulations to Hannah. You can read what Hannah had to say, and see other entries in the People Tree magazine.

A new photo of Emma at Sonia Rykiel’s anniversary party appears in a feature on Vanity Fair. Derek Blasberg writes about Emma for his book Classy: Exceptional Advice for the Extremely Modern Lady:

“When you write a book about classy women, people tend to want to know whom you consider the classiest of all. And while I’ve just listed about two dozen shining examples, the one I think of most is actress Emma Watson. In the public eye since the age of nine, in the most successful movie franchise of the first decade of the millennium, and a veritable fashion force

The Making of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter aired on NBC yesterday. The half hour special gave us a brief look at all the work that went into the park and included a tour of the attractions and commentary by Emma Watson and others in the cast.

Warning: This is not dialup friendly, sorry.

A trailer for Deathly Hallows aired during the MTV Movie awards with a lot of new footage we haven’t seen before. The rest of the show wasn’t that great. Congratulations to Tom Felton for winning Best Villain, but Emma, Dan and Half-Blood Prince didn’t win in their categories.

Thanks to Snitchseeker for the clip.

MTV Movie Awards Tomorrow

The MTV Movie Awards airs tomorrow evening, Sunday at 9pm EST. Emma was nominated for Best Female Performance, Dan Radcliffe for Best Male Performance, Tom Felton for Best Villain, and Half-Blood Prince for Best Movie. I hope you guys have been voting. Only Tom Felton has confirmed that he will be attending.

MTV has announced the show “will feature an exclusive, never-before-seen clip from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1“. During last year’s awards, they also promised an “exclusive clip” from Half-Blood Prince but it was mostly already seen footage. Hopefully this year is better.

Making of Wizarding World

Also tomorrow evening, The Making of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter airs on NBC at 7pm EST. This 30 minute special tours the corridors of Hogwarts and the streets of Hogsmeade and will include “exclusive cast commentary”. No details on who this includes though.

Scans

The German Bravo had an article on the friendship between Emma, Dan and Rupert.  Thanks Nelli. Elle from Canada had a feature on summer scents, and the US Seventeen mentions Emma working with People Tree. The feature is about turning one’s passion into money, but Emma didn’t do this for money so it’s a bit out of place. Thanks to Elmira.

Gallery Updates

I have updated some of the pictures of the recent filming at Stevenage with untagged versions, thanks to order partner RupertGrint.net. I’ve added some new old pics from the Sean Cook, Ellen von Unwerth and Elle UK 09 photoshoots. Thanks to Marie Aline and Watson Daily, via IHeartWatson.

Honorable mentions go to Joanna, Marie, Lotus, Joanna again, Marta, Sissi and Esma. Thank you to everyone that entered, and thank you all for voting.

 

All the entries can be seen here.