Feltbeats End Of Year Wrap-Up

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Want to know what happened on feltbeats.com in 2009? Here is our 2009 wrap-up.

January

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In January Tom and Jade visited Universal Studios on their Orlando vacation to check on the progress of the upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park.
Tom Universal Decree

February

Tom, along with his on-screen father and aunt, Jason Issacs and Helena Bonham Carter, respectively, had the privilege of attending the Empire Awards at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London

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Tom released a new YouTube video with a preview of his new song “If You Could Be Anywhere”
Feltbeats.com learned that Tom would be playing a supporting role in the British independent film “13 Hours”
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March
In March, we got our first news about Tom’s intent to star in the upcoming WWII drama “Grace and Danger” formerly known as “Cold Blood Kill”.

Grace and Danger

 


April

 

In April, the first ever “Feltcast” was released. The one-and-only Tom Felton podcast brought to you by the admins of Feltbeats.com

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Feltbeats.com owner Misha had the opportunity to interview Tom for the second time. In this interview titled “The Twitter Interview”, Misha and Tom discuss acting, music, and questions submitted by his twitter followers.

Tom did get to take a well deserved break in April when he flew to Rome with a certain young lady to celebrate her birthday
Tom in Rome

May

 

On May 20th, Feltbeats.com celebrated it’s First Birthday! Read how the site began and see a shout out in the comments section from Tom Felton himself!


“In Good Hands”, Tom’s third album was released. The album can be downloaded from various sites and features 6 songs written and performed by Tom himself.

Also in May, Tom travelled to Majorca Spain to attend The Pirates Adventure 2009 show in support of The Great Ormond Street Hospital’s Childrens Charity.

Pirate Adventure

June

In June, Tom began filming for Deathly Hallows and tweeted about his first day on set.
Tom had the honor of narrating the making of the Half Blood Prince video game.
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The big promotional push for HBP began with Tom attending the FNAC event in Paris, and the Harry Potter bus tour in Leiscester Square.
FNAC
HP Bus
To round out the month of June, a freshly bleached Tom attended a screening and Q&A of his film The Disappeared.
Disappeared Q&A

 

July

The month of July was all about one thing, the worldwide release of Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince!

London Premiere



HBP Premiere

Members of the Feltbeats Army trekked to NY to experience the NY Premiere for themselves

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Tom made an appearance at the Paramus NJ Hot Topic for a public Q&A and meet and greet for 750 fans.

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Due to the incredible amount of news coming in, feltbeats.com went live. Check out our Cover It Live blog for our full coverage of all the happenings surrounding the premieres, press junkets, and other events

August

The month of August brought more stops on Tom’s HBP promotional tour with an appearance with Evanna Lynch at the Greece HBP Premiere, as well as a visit to Japan.


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Japan

In August, feltbeats.com received the first of many long awaited photos from Tom’s shoot with photographer Kai Z Feng.

Kai Z Feng

September

In September, feltbeats.com celebrated a monumental event in history. The birth of Tom Felton!

Happy Birthday

Tom's Cake

The Feltbeats Army Special Forces attended Dragon* Con, where Tom would be appearing, to present him with a special birthday surprise. He was presented with a birthday cake made by FA member Southernbets. Tom called it “a work of architectural genius”! I think that means he liked it!

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While at Dragon Con, Tom participated in multiple Q&A’s that can only be described as hilarious!



Dragon Con

In September, Universal Studios Orlando held an exclusive webcast to announce the progress of the upcoming Wizarding World Of Harry Potter. Tom was invited to attend and given the honor of announcing that the park will be opening in the spring of 2010.

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October

In October Drama Magazine released their eagerly anticipated interview and photo spread of Tom. It did not disapoint!

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Tom presented the Young FilmCritics awards during the launch of the National Schools Film Week at London’s Leicester Square

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Tom filmed a teaser trailer in October for his upcoming movie “In Between The Waves”

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November

In November, Tom attended BBC’s Switch Live concert and awards show where he accepted the award for Favorite Flick for HBP.

Switch Live

HBP DVD
We got our first look at Disc 2 from the HBP DVD. Tom was featured multiple times on the extra features disc.

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In November, Tom also attended the T-4 Stars Of Tommorow concert with his HP co-stars Bonnie Wright and Matthew Lewis.

T-4 2

December

Tom capped off a great year of interviews with a press blitz to promote the DVD release of HBP in December. He was interviewed be MTV, People, ABC News, and various other radio stations and news outlets.

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Tom also attended the HMV signing event in promotion of the dvd release with HP co-stars Matthew Lewis, Jessie Cave and Evanna Lynch
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Tom closed out 2009 by presenting the Award for Best Sitcom at this years British Comedy Awards.
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Thanks For A Great 2009!

We at Feltbeats.com want to thank you for such a wonderful 2009, and look forward to bringing you the latest and greatest Tom Felton news in 2010!

 

 

 

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SpeakEasy Tom Felton, The Interview

The Wall Street Journal’s Michelle Kung interviews Tom Felton in their SpeakEasy page. In it, Tom talks about the horrific pictures he’s seen of Ron’s Horcrux Hallucination. Or does he? Check out the interview and find out!

Here’s a segment of the interview:

Speakeasy: What was the last scene you shot before coming to New York?

Tom Felton: I can’t reveal too much, or I’ll get myself in trouble, but I can say that we’ve been shooting some of the very last scenes from the very last film. Though we’re not going to be able to see it for another two years, which is crazy. But it’s very moving, because this is what we’ve been working toward for the last 10 years. Daniel [Radcliffe] is the figurehead of the series, so when we see him battered and abused and scarred [while in character] on set, you get all emotional.

In the final scenes, you get to work with more of the adult cast, which must be a nice change of pace — as well as a high-end acting workshop.

Definitely. I was always one of the 800 kids floating around, and now I get to work more with the big guns, if you will. They’re all incredibly nice people. Jason Isaacs, who plays my dad [Lucius Malfoy], is especially great. I wouldn’t go up to Ralph Fiennes [who plays Lord Voldemort] and ask, ‘How do you cry?’. But Jason I feel quite comfortable asking, ‘how do you do this, and how do you do that?’. And he would never take offense if one were to go, ‘Jason, just shut up.’ The most helpful thing he’s taught me is to speak up, because when you’re surrounded by these great actors, you tend to be the quiet voice when everyone is talking, and he taught me to stand up for myself.

On “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” Jim Broadbent joined the cast and very oddly, he played my dad in my first movie when I was 7. Because I haven’t seen him in 10 years, I was convinced he wouldn’t remember me, but from the first moment he saw me, he called my by my character’s name from that first film. I’m a massive fan of his. He’s probably one of the most underrated actors, certainly in the U.K.

Speaking of “Half-Blood Prince,” you’re featured quite a bit in the extras for the newly released DVD and Blu-Ray discs. Were you guys consciously shooting extra bits during the film’s production expressly for the DVD?

In previous years, without knocking them too much, [the DVD producers] kind of just threw the extra bits they couldn’t use from the movie onto the extras. This time, because they knew the Blu-ray was going to be able to hold a lot more content, the cast and the publicity team literally sat down and talked about what we would be willing to do and what we’d be happy to do, so that’s where ideas like the “Quickfire Questioning” came from. It was really cool for us, because they gave us [actors] a camera crew each for a day, and we all went to a different departments that we had never gone to. Because obviously, the actors get a lot of praise, but there are all these amazing people building set and making wands that, many of whom, we’d never even met. So it was fascinating to talk to them [for the DVD featurettes] and explain what they do to the audience.

Fans were disappointed when Warner Bros pushed the original theatrical release date of “Half-Blood Prince” back from fall 2008 to summer 2009. They studio isn’t going to pull a fast one with the release dates for parts one and two of “Deathly Hallows,” are they?

I was let down as well [at the time]; I had worked on it for 12 months and then I was told I’d have to have another 7 months? I was frustrated, but it all worked out in the end, because it gave us a chance to enjoy the film more when it came out. The next few years are quite strongly structured. The only reason they moved that was because Warner Bros was having a record year [in 2008] with the Batman film’s success. You can’t argue with the finances; they know what they’re doing.

Wanna read the rest of it? All you have to do is Click Here for the full interview!

Tom Felton interviewed by Scholastic.com

Scholastic.com posted a new interview today featuring Tom Felton and Bonnie Wright. They share their thoughts on JK Rowling,  parts they wish they could have filmed, and how important their roles have become in the final book.

Q: Are you both happy about the way your parts got more important in the last book?

Bonnie: Yeah I definitely was happy where J.K. Rowling took the character of Ginny. I think if we were all told at the first film where our characters would end up, I don’t think any of us would have imagined. It’s just really enjoyable and sort of unnerving at the beginning when you do read the last book.

Tom: Seriously. When that came out I was like, I’m not going to read it. I’m going to wait for the script. I don’t want to be reading bits in the book and thinking I can’t wait to do that and then find out it’s not going to be featured. And that lasted about an hour, and within it being released in a day I read the whole thing!

Q: Is there any particular scene from any of the books that you wish you could have filmed but wasn’t filmed?

Tom: They cut out actually very little. There was a thing in the second film where Jason [Lucius Malfoy] and I did a scene at Borgin and Burkes and it was the first time that it was father and son together. And that answered a lot to me why Draco is like that. Unfortunately it was never featured in the film. It was on the DVD as a deleted scene, so I got to watch it, which was cool. But no, everything else we’ve shot. Especially on these last two [films]. Everything — when I read the book I thought, “I can’t wait to shoot that.” It’s all there, so we’re very excited.

Q: How would you describe J.K. Rowling?

Bonnie: I always find it so surreal meeting her. This whole world literally is because of one person.
Tom: She’s a very unassuming down-to-earth lady, the most lovely lady. I was always taken away by how genuine she seemed, and how unaffected by the fact that she’s probably the world’s biggest author.

Q: In Harry Potter 6 everyone’s in love except Draco.

Tom: Oh what’s that? Can you believe it! I didn’t even realize all this stuff was going on because I was doing the whole evil walk down the corridor thing and when we saw the film everyone sort of. . .of course I’m jealous! I like to think Draco had offers but he was too busy with his evil task at hand.

Bonnie: Or they weren’t good enough.

Tom: This was it. Very high standards for Draco. I can’t imagine why any female on the planet would want to spend the day with him.

Q: Which of the other actors do you look up to?

Tom: I look up massively to Dan [Harry], Rupert [Ron] and Emma [Hermione]. I think they hold the fort single-handedly so well. They’re all superb actors and they carry the feature through beautifully. And they deal with it like it’s nothing! I know we’re all here quite a bit, but they’re here religiously. Endless days, and yet Daniel takes it all in his stride and absolutely loves it. I always admire watching him on set.

There is tons more, so click here to read the full interview!

Thanks to www.the-leaky-cauldron.org for the tip!