Dan on Top Movie Lists

Rope of Silicon has ranked Dan on number 19 on the list of "Who's the Next Big Male Movie Star?

Yeah, he's Harry Potter and people are certainly not going to Harry Potter films for Daniel Radcliffe, but that doesn't mean this kid can't act. To be honest I wouldn't have added Radcliffe if it hadn't been for the recent reviews of his Broadway debut in "Equus" which is receiving fantastic reviews as the New York Times says "the 19-year-old film star Daniel Radcliffe steps into a mothball-preserved, off-the-rack part and wears it like a tailor's delight — that is, a natural fit that allows room to stretch." At the age of 19 he certainly has time to shed the Potter robes and with serious Broadway attention he is getting the praise he needs to make a leap to the next level.

You can also place your vote for Dan on the poll at the end of that page, as of right now Dan is on the 4th place. (so keep voting for him).


Dan also made it to the list of the Top 50 Hottest Male Actors for The Movie-Fanatic (which is more like a fan blog than a legit entertainment site) Dan was rank #17 on this list.

Congrats to Dan.

Emma in Paris

Emma is doing her runs all over London and now Paris's fashion shows, this time she attended two events the Balenciaga Spring Summer 2009 and the Patrick Demarchelier shows, here are some pictures of Emma from Paris.

After Party Equus Pictures and Videos

Here are some nice pictures and videos of Dan along with some of his Equus' co-stars and some other celebrities that came to watch the show.

ET Online Video Equus

ITN Video Interviews

MTV Video Interview Dan

Video and Audio - Equus

The NY Times has a nice audio slide show of Equus, where Thea Sharrock talks about the maturity of the play and explains a bit of Alan's character:

NY Times Audio Slide Show


And thanks to NY1, we have a video review of Equus where we can see a video of the actual play between Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths:

NY1.com Video Review

RAVE Reviews for Daniel Radcliffe - Equus

This is the time that I was waiting, and finally here it comes, here are the first rave reviews of Dan as Alan in the play Equus:

'Equus': Radcliffe revealed as a serious actor
USA Today

The good and bad news about the new Broadway revival of Equus with Daniel Radcliffe is that the actor is aging a lot more gracefully than the play.

In this London-based production, which opened Thursday at the Broadhurst Theatre, the Harry Potter star puts to rest any arguments that his appeal should be limited to moony adolescents and maudlin grown-ups. If only the same could be said for Peter Shaffer's 35-year-old drama.

It's a credit to Radcliffe, his estimable co-star Richard Griffiths and director Thea Sharrock that this Equus transcends the more frustrating elements of the text. In less able hands, Dysart and Alan might be written off as another gifted but troubled shrink and his gifted but troubled charge, but Griffiths and Radcliffe give them rich, real inner lives.

The younger actor evinces Alan's shield of precocity and hostility, then movingly reveals the tender wounds beneath it. Griffiths' stringent Dysart defies the sentimentality woven into the heavier passages, enhancing the production's authority and dignity.

'Equus': Daniel Radcliffe worth seeing
amNy.com

Now that we've gotten that out of our system, let's cut to the chase. Does Mr. Radcliffe have what it takes to play Broadway? Absolutely.

Radcliffe highlights the surmounting pain and agony behind his character's confessional monologues, including his orgasmic horseback ride, the humiliation of his first failed sexual experience, and the infamous climax where he takes a metal spike and vengefully blinds the horses. (Six men, covered in hoof masks and platform horseshoes and engaging in percussive choreography, play the horses.)

Daniel Radcliffe demonstrates he can act on stage
International Herald Tribune

Let's get to the reason you folks bought tickets: Daniel Radcliffe in the nude. And yes, he can act on stage — quite well, it turns out.

The screen star of all those "Harry Potter" movies brings a disarming vulnerability and touching desperation to the role of Alan Strang, the tormented stable boy who blinds horses in "Equus," Peter Shaffer's hit of more than three decades ago. It's now being revived on Broadway after a successful London engagement last year.

The young actor's voice is strong, and Radcliffe doesn't shrink from the physicality of the part. That includes doffing all his clothes during the play's climactic moments. But then, he literally throws himself into the role in a production chock full of startling, imaginative theatrics.

Daniel Radcliffe steps out on Broadway, sheds all in 'Equus'
Chicago Tribune

Daniel Radcliffe’s fresh and moving Broadway debut in Peter Shaffer’s “Equus” reveals at least two things about the handsome teenage movie star known throughout the world as Harry Potter. He has some promising stage-acting chops.

And he’s a brave young man.

The most obvious evidence of that bravery is the nudity required by Shaffer’s 1973 drama, a formalist, ritualistic play that traces a child psychologist’s breakthrough with a violent young patient who was remanded by the English court after blinding several horses.

Daniel Radcliffe delivers, but 'Equus' shows its age
NY Daily News

Let's get right to it - Daniel Radcliffe, the marquee man-boy and the reason "Equus" has trotted back to Broadway.

Yes, he's terrific and gives a passionate performance as Alan Strang, the 17-year-old stable hand who worships - and blinds - six horses. Yes, he's nude in a scene, but not gratuitously. And yes, he's (at least partially) in good company in the revival of Peter Shaffer's play, which intrigues but shows its age.

Daniel Radcliffe makes his New York stage debut
NY Metro

Radcliffe, the big draw in this revival, demonstrates that he’s moved beyond his “Harry Potter” adolescence into a serious theater career. Playing a deeply neurotic, desperate teen with no prospects, he stays focused on his therapist, moving from terrified indifference to deep respect.

Equus may star 'Harry,' but no magic here
Hofstra Chronicle

Former "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe makes an impressive Broadway debut in a revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 drama, "Equus." Radcliffe plays Alan Strang, a mentally unstable 17-year-old, committed to a mental institution after blinding six horses with a hoof pick. It's up to his psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (Richard Griffiths) to do some detective work and figure out what provoked Alan into performing such a terrible act.

Radcliffe is a shockingly good serious actor, and delivers what is perhaps the best celebrity Broadway debut in recent memory. He manages to capture Alan's internal and external conflicts convincingly and checks his "celebrity" at the door to become one of the ensemble. It's a shame that he's not served very well by Sharrock's production.

In the Darkness of the Stable
NY Times

The young wizard has chosen wisely. Making his Broadway debut in Thea Sharrock’s oddly arid revival of Peter Shaffer’s “Equus,” which opened Thursday night at the Broadhurst Theater, the 19-year-old film star Daniel Radcliffe steps into a mothball-preserved, off-the-rack part and wears it like a tailor’s delight — that is, a natural fit that allows room to stretch. Would that the production around him, first presented in London, showed off Mr. Shaffer’s 1973 psychodrama as flatteringly as it does its stage-virgin star.

Like many beloved film actors Mr. Radcliffe has an air of heightened ordinariness, of the everyday lad who snags your attention with an extra, possibly dangerous gleam of intensity. That extra dimension has always been concentrated in Mr. Radcliffe’s Alsatian-blue gaze, very handy for glaring down otherworldly ghouls if you’re Harry Potter. Or if you’re Alan Strang, for blocking and enticing frightened grown-ups who both do and do not want to understand why you act as you do.

I had forgotten just how much is made of Alan’s eyes in “Equus,” which became a sensational upper-middlebrow hit when it opened in London and later on Broadway more than three decades ago. His stare is variously described as accusing, demanding and, in the case of a comely lass who just wants to bed him, amazing. Fortunately it projects as big from the stage as it does in cinematic close-up, as does Mr. Radcliffe’s compact, centered presence (which he retains even stark, raving naked). In any case, it’s the look of someone who sees and feels more deeply than ordinary folk. Such depth is to be envied — isn’t it? — even if it prohibits its possessors from fully belonging to human society.

An actor leaves boyhood behind in ‘Equus’
Philly.com

Let's get right down to it, the question people are asking: The answer is, yes, in Equus, Daniel Radcliffe is very good-looking in the buff.
You normally don't see big stars without a thread, so the play's Act 2 nude scene is a Broadway curiosity. But Radcliffe's no longer a child hanging around Hogwarts. He's 19, he's obviously been working out, and he's hugely talented in his first live stage role, even with clothes on. I should be so lucky.

Shaffer begins the play as the boy is remanded to a mental hospital, and to the care of a respected - and reluctant - psychiatrist with troubles of his own. The first Broadway revival of Equus opened Thursday, a production that played last year in London with Radcliffe and Griffiths, by now old colleagues from Harry Potter films - as the title character and the odious Uncle Vernon, respectively.

On stage, they work together beautifully as the tormented boy and the personally scarred doctor, like the clasped but knotty fingers of two hands, folded.

The agony and the 'Equus'-ty
NJ.com

It's old news by now that young Daniel Radcliffe gets naked during "Equus," but the "Harry Potter" film idol bravely and believably exposes his character's troubled soul as well in a smashing Broadway debut.

Bolstered by co-star Richard Griffiths' easy expertise, Radcliffe peels away the emotional levels of the tormented yet ultimately touching stableboy, Alan Strang, with skill and unmistakable stage presence.

Having played their roles in Sharrock's earlier London revival, Radcliffe and Griffiths capably mesh as the haunted youth and his unflappable shrink. Clad in a jeans and jersey, the stubbly chinned Radcliffe's Strang is a slight, boyish figure with a tightly coiled sense of tension that sporadically explodes into agitation and anguish. Sporting a snowy goatee and a crumpled linen shirt, the expansive Griffiths portrays Dysart as a pro in confident control of every situation -- for a while, anyway.

HARRY POTTER WAVES HIS MAGIC WAND
NY Post

But there's no mystery behind the revival that opened last night: It's brought Harry Potter and Uncle Vernon - that is, Daniel Radcliffe and Richard Griffiths - to Broadway.

Despite his almost total lack of stage experience - seven years of Potter in his magic kingdom suggest Shirley Temple rather than Laurence Olivier - Radcliffe, with his luminously intense eyes and fragile but wiry body, looks wonderfully right as Alan, the 17-year-old British boy besotted by everything equine.

His acting, beautifully understated and withdrawn, has just the right manner for this horribly mixed-up adolescent, at the prey of a wayward religiosity and a twisted sexuality cemented together with suburban hypocrisy.

Dan and Emma HOT 25 Under!!

I guess we are already use to this, but Emma and Dan made (again) the list of Moviefone's 25 under 25: Hollywood's Hottest Young Stars,

Emma Watson
Age: 18

Years on List: 2008

What She's Done: As Hermione in five 'Harry Potter' pics, Watson has blossomed in front of eyes, from cute kid to -- dare we say it -- hot young adult.

What's Next: She'll voice Princess Pea in this winter's 'The Tale of Desperaux,' then really break out of the 'Potter' mold in '09's 'Napoleon and Betsy.' Of course she also has three more 'Potter' hits on the way.

Industry Buzz: "She is one of the brightest people I have ever met, with a razor-sharp mind," says 'Harry Potter' producer David Heyman. "After seeing her work in 'Half-Blood Prince,' I can assuredly say she can do it all. She is a great comedienne, and brings real gravitas to the dramatic scenes."


Daniel Radcliffe

Age: 19

Years on List: 2007, 2008

What He's Done: Best known as the beloved boy wizard from the 'Harry Potter' films, he's also made headlines by going full frontal for the London stage revival of 'Equus.'

What's Next: 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' is due in theaters next summer, and -- after putting his "wand" on display in the Broadway run of 'Equus' -- he'll return to London to begin filming the two-part 'Potter' finale, 'The Deathly Hallows.'

Industry Buzz: "As you can see by the work he has done outside of 'Potter,' he embraces challenges," says 'Potter' producer David Heyman. "He is a remarkably curious young man who is eager to be the very best at whatever he does, yet retains great humility and decency."

Lots of Dan News

wow, where to start.. first of all, sorry for the lack of updates but I was out of town for a few days....

Now back on the news, Dan was invited (what an honor) to Inside the Actors Studio, this show is hosted by James Lipton with past guess stars as John Cusack, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Matt Damon, Forest Whitaker, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Foster, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson and many more, here is a bit of this show history:

The television series, which has been recognized with twelve Emmy nominations in twelve years, is in fact a course in a master's degree program, the renowned Actors Studio Drama School of Pace University, which was created thirteen years ago by Mr. Lipton as a vice-president of the Actors Studio, in collaboration with his Studio colleagues, and which, with Mr. Lipton as its founding dean, became the largest graduate drama school in America.

There are no seats avaiable for this show.

Dan has been included in a book called The Waiting Game; Simon Annand has made a wonderful book of some of the best theater actors in their dressing rooms, during the thirty minutes before curtain up. This book includes the greatest British stage actors, like Maureen Lipman, Julie Walters, Daniel Graig, Ewan McGregor, Dawn French, Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ian McKellen and of course our Daniel Radcliffe:

“I wrote to Daniel’s father, who is also his manager, saying that some people in the book started their working lives in the Twenties and he was the youngest person in the book. He was becoming part of a tradition in the theatre and that meant something to him. He’s very serious about his work. Even though he’s carried these multi-million pound movies, he’s also a 17-year-old like any other. So I had to talk a lot during the shoot. We talked about cricket.”

And of course lots of Dan's pictures gretting and signing authographs for the fans.

Harry Potter Store

This Shanghai store is dedicated to Harry Potter merchandise. It's on the 4th floor of the Cloud Nine mall in Shanghai.

daniel radcliffe, emma watson and Rupert Grint on the cover of teenvogue magazine

daniel radcliffe, emma watson and Rupert Grint on the cover of teen vogue magazine on may 2008

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Emma Watson with a female friend at the London Fashion Week

Emma Watson Puts her career on hold for Studying degree

Emma Watson is putting her movie career on hold as she attempts to earn a university degree.The actress, who plays Hermione in the Harry Potter franchise, will head to academia after filming on the final instalment is complete.She commented that she feels she has a "need" to study and is unable to juggle it with her acting career."I would like to go to university and complete a degree and so that will mean a break from acting," she said.Watson, 18, told the Daily Telegraph that she may head to the US to take a course."There are excellent universities over there and I am applying at the moment. If I stay in this country I will read English Literature, and if I go to America I will do a Liberal Arts programme," she said.

US Harper's Bazaar Magazine - Emma Watson Photo Shoot 2

US Harper's Bazaar Magazine - Emma Watson Photo Shoot

S Harper's Bazaar Magazine - Emma Watson Photo Shoot

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Emma Watson arrives for the front row at the Christopher Kane Autumn Winter London Fashion Week Show in London, UK on September 16, 2008. Photo by Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment/ABACAUSA.COM

London Fashion Week - Christopher Kane Celebs Sighting - Actress EmmaWatson

Emma Watson sits front row at the Christopher Kane Autumn Winter London Fashion Week Show in London, UK on September 16, 2008. Photo by Doug Peters/EMPICS Entertainment/ABACAUSA.COM

Dan Old New Videos from Paparazzi

These videos come from old pictures taken a few months ago, the first video is from Dan's 18th b-day cricket match and the other video is when Dan and his dad went to the American embassy

Emma at the Winter London Fashion Show

Yesterday Emma was in attendance at the Christopher Kane Autumn Winter London Fashion Show in London, she looked stunning in a casual elegant attire.