Emma Watson going to Brown University

Harry Potter star Emma Watson has finally confirmed where she'll be going to school: Brown University.

The 19-year-old actress turned academic told Paste that she'll be hitting the books stateside this fall.
When asked where she plans on studying later this year, Watson revealed that she's heading "to Brown, which is an Ivy League establishment in the U.S.A. I’ve got a place there to read literature."
Watson confirmed her choice to Paste magazine. She had looked at a number of schools in the U.S., including Harvard, Yale and Columbia. No word on why she settled on Brown, but she does plan on studying literature at the Providence, R.I., Ivy, the alma mater of
John Krasinksi, Laura Linney, JoBeth Williams, John Kennedy Jr., and a number of young royals"No word on why she settled on Brown"

Probably because Brown is by far the best of any of those choices. Probably tied with Princeton for the best education in the Ivy League. I imagine she'll do well there.

Countdown Of 'Harry Potter': "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" breaks midnight record

Remember those Harry Potter fans who said they would boycott the sixth movie because Warner Bros. delayed its release to make more money? Yeah, right, good luck with that. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" has arrived and our Yvonne Villarreal was out there among the muggles and brought back this report.
Harry was a wizard at the witching hour.

Setting a new all-time record for midnight box-office, "Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince" rung up an estimated $22.2 million from 3,003 midnight performances Wednesday.

The sixth installment in Warner Bros.' oh-so-lucrative film franchise continues its first day of release in 4,275 domestic locations. "Prince" expands to 4,350 theaters on Friday.

The midnight coin for "Prince" compares to a $12 million haul from similar showtimes for the last "Potter" pic, 2007's "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." That was part of a first-day tally for "Phoenix" totaling $44.2 million.

"We're ecstatic," Warners domestic distribution president Dan Fellman said. "We owe a big thanks to the Harry Potter fans, who are supporting us so well even after the picture was moved back."

Warners delayed the release of "Prince" from November to July to boost its box-office prospects for this summer.

Warners' 2008 blockbuster "The Dark Knight," which had held the record for midnight box-office at $18 million, also fetched the most opening-day box-office ever. Bowing on a Friday, "Dark Knight" registered a mind-bending $67.2 million last July 18.

Emma Watson Says: Robert Pattinson is a super nice guy

Emma Watson says kissing Rupert Grint is like smooching "your brother".

The 19-year-old actress locks lips with her co-star in 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', the final installment of the boy wizard franchise, and has been dreading filming the scene for years.

Emma said: "It was really awkward. Rupert's like my brother, so it just felt very, very strange. But he's a gentleman, and he was a great kisser."

Daniel Radcliffe, who plays the titular boy wizard, had similar problems filming his love scenes with Bonnie Wright, who plays Ginny Weasley.

He said: "Even though Bonnie is obviously stunningly beautiful, I've known her since she was nine and I was 11. So that was kind of weird at first. But we got used to it. We got over it pretty quickly in fact."


'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson expresses her feelings toward 'Twilight' hunk and Hogwarts student Robert Pattinson. "[Pattinson] is a super nice guy," the actress says "I'm really happy for him that he's gone on to be so uber successful."

Pattinson played Cedric Diggory in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' and 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.'

Watson says of her former costar's fame, "I hope he's doing okay. It's gotta be tough."

Pattinson is currently filming 'Remember Me' in New York, while Watson is promoting 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,' out in theaters July 15.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Dir. David Yates. 2009. PG. 2hrs 33mins. Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Bonnie Wright, Jim Broadbent, Alan Rickman.

At Hogwarts in year six, a young wizard’s thoughts turn to the hot chick in Incantations class, and the potions most of interest are love potions. While Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) skulks around moodily looking strangely like David Bowie in the Thin White Duke era, Harry (Radcliffe), Hermione (Watson) and Ron (Grint) spend an inordinate percentage of Half-Blood Prince obsessing about who’s snogging whom.

Yes, there’s that whole Voldemort problem to deal with, and certainly people are disappearing mysteriously while Dumbledore (Gambon) rumbles darkly but unhelpfully about the dark secrets of Tom Riddle, the boy who would become Ultimate Evil. But the teen leads engage in the rather thin plotting only intermittently, and screenwriter Steve Kloves happily follows their lead.

For Potter-ites, there are plenty of satisfactions to be had, but the fun mostly comes from recognizing plot points from the novel merely suggested onscreen. When Harry finally gets engaged in some action, the climax is suitably exciting and dark, but it feels oddly tacked on after two-plus hours spent mostly in the world of high-school romantic intrigues.