Transfiguration here we come

[Barry Arrowsmith]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley" <dfrankiswork at ...> wrote:
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6460000/newsid_6464000/646404
> 9.stm
> 
> 'A spokesperson for Warner Bros., who make the films, told 
> Newsround: "We're extremely confident that Emma will be back for 
> films six and seven."'
> 
> Sounds like the usual pre-contractual shenanigans.  No doubt somebody 
> at WB reasoned that, as she only gets the sidekick and not the lead, 
> her pay could be reduced accordingly, and her agent told her to throw 
> her toys out of the pram to the Sun or whoever.
> 
> David
>

Presented slightly differently in the press:

"TEEN film star Emma Watson is about to do a vanishing act 
from Hogwarts — because the Harry Potter films have lost 
their magic.

The pretty 16-year-old, who plays key character Hermione 
Granger, wants a spell doing other roles.

She has REFUSED to sign a new contract, plunging the final 
two movies of the JK Rowling novels into crisis.

The feisty young actress has told producers that even doubling 
her pay packet to £2 million a movie won't do the trick.

Filming on the sixth film in the series — Harry Potter and the 
Half-Blood Prince — is due to start in months.

Daniel Radcliffe is already signed up to star as the quidditch-
playing wizard and Rupert Grint will again play Harry's best pal 
Ron Weasley.

He told us: "Emma doesn't want to do it any more. She's tired of 
being known as `that girl from Harry Potter'."

She was shocked when a besotted fan stalked her at school.

Rupert added: "Daniel and I are distant from her now. We don't 
text or talk to her when we are not filming."

Their last film together — Harry Potter and the Order of the 
Phoenix — comes out in July.

Film makers Warner Brothers confirmed Emma, has not signed 
for more movies."

Mind you, the 'press' in this case is a Murdoch scandal-sheet that
out-sells every other Sunday and is usually referred to as 'The News
of the Screws' A touch on the sensationalist side with censorious 
overtones, you know the sort of thing I mean, though they've 
learned to be accurate when quoting directly, it costs 'em a bomb
otherwise. 

Um. A thought.
Didn't Warner sign up for the first 5 books?
When did they contract for the last two? Don't remember reading
anything about it. Though the films don't interest me much so I
probably missed it (haven't seen the last one and don't intend to, not
after that godawful PoA thing.)

Kneasy