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EXCLUSIVE: Emma Thompson Chooses ‘Nanny McPhee’ Sequel Over Harry Potter
EXCLUSIVE: Emma Thompson Chooses ‘Nanny McPhee’ Sequel Over Harry Potter
If you’re a fantasy film fan, or if you simply have any children in your life, you might want to brace yourself for some good news and some bad news: Emma Thompson has been forced to choose between the “Harry Potter” and “Nanny McPhee” franchises. And in her ...
Emma Thompson Out of 'Deathly Hallows' for Next 'Nanny McPhee'
Emma Thompson Out of 'Deathly Hallows' for Next 'Nanny McPhee'
aceshowbiz.com — Emma Thompson, the actress who played Professor Trelawney, ditched 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' installment for... 'Nanny McPhee' franchise. Emma Thompson Out of 'Deathly Hallows' for Next 'Nanny ...
How Would The Harry Potter Characters Vote?
How Would The Harry Potter Characters Vote?
moviesblog.mtv.com — Ok, granted — Harry Potter is underage. Harry Potter is British. And Harry Potter is, above all... these things, fictional . But the Harry Potter Alliance , a social activist network which, among other things, runs Wrock the Vote , has been out ... How Would The Harry Potter Characters Vote?
We Are Wizards: Film Review
slantmagazine.com — How the dynamic between inspiration and creation operates is a topic that We Are Wizards tantalizingly puts... forward but fails to fully examine. by Nick Schager We Are Wizards: Film Review
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Stalked: Russell Crowe, August: Osage County, Emma Thompson, America Ferrera
Filmstalker — ... say the film is about a dysfunctional family, who all gather at the home they grew up in. Don't expect to see Emma Thompson back in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Thompson says she won't be revisiting her role as Professor Sybil Trelawney. She told MTV she had to make a choice between Harry Potter and a second Nanny McPhee film. She feels there is no competition: I’m making my own ‘Nanny McPhee’ next year. They mean much more to me...The Harry Potters are great big franchises that are something I’m not emotionally attached to or necessarily particularly creatively ...

Emma Thompson Dropped Harry Potter For Nanny McPhee 2
Cinema Blend News — ... that Emma Thompson would not appear in the next Harry Potter sequel as Sybill Trelawney. What we didn’t know, until now, is why. Speaking to MTV , Emma revealed that leaving Harry Potter was her decision. Forced to choose between doing Potter and doing a sequel to her somewhat poorly received 2006 fantasy movie Nanny McPhee … she went with McPhee. According to Thompson, it came down to which she cared about more. She says, “I’m making my own ‘Nanny McPhee’ next year. They mean much more to me.” It’s great that she’s got a project she’s so passionate about. ...

Newsbites: Australia! McPhee! Narnia! Monopoly! Magneto!
FilmChat — ... movie. Since she actually writes the Nanny McPhee movies, the choice, for her, was obvious. McPhee it is. -- MTV Movies Blog ...

Emma Thompson to return as 'Nanny McPhee'
The Screening Log — ... Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson recently confirmed she won’t return as Sybil Trelawney in the next Harry Potter film because she’s gearing up for a “Nanny McPhee” follow-up. ...

Divine This!
my new plaid pants — ... of screen-time per movie, but it's always such a pleasure seeing Emma Thompson on-screen, especially so with the giant glasses and mussed hair, and there's a choice-bit in the final Harry Potter book that I was really dying to see her do (I assume anyone caring enough to read this post would've read the books by now, so you'll no doubt know of the crystal-ball-lobbing scene of which I speak)... well, it's not to be. Emma's tossed in the towel! Lousy selfish quitter lady! Via MTV: ...

Emma Thompson chooses Nanny McPhee over Harry Potter
Gryffindor Gazette — ... “I’m making my own ‘Nanny McPhee’ next year. They mean much more to me.”….“The Harry Potters are great big franchises that are something I’m not emotionally attached to or necessarily particularly creatively attached to,” Thompson explained. “That’s more like doing a turn, whereas the Nanny McPhees are something I’ve written. The art is in those films, they’re very handmade, they’re something that’s very close to me. Those are the ones I really care about.” - source Well, it’s certainly a bummer to not have Emma in the film, but I do have ...

Hogwarts Says Goodbye to Sybill Trelawney
Cinematical — ... rid of her, and then we learn that she's been written out of the next instalment, even though she plays an important part in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. And now, well, now we don't even get to look forward to her in the final double installment. No big-screen goodbye for us, unless Order of the Phoenix heads back to theaters. (This is assuming the Harry Powers That Be don't recast her for the final film.) Emma Thompson has told MTV that she's given up the Harry Potter world to make another Nanny McPhee film. ...

Emma Thompson Rates ‘Nanny McPhee’ Over ‘Harry Potter’
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews — ... choose between appearing in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows and a sequel to Nanny McPhee. Unfortunately for all of us Potter fans, she chose McPhee over Professor Trelawney. Emma Thompson has done a great job of portraying Sybil Trelawney, the teacher of divination who prophesies the battle between Harry and Voldemort. But someone else will have to play her in the last two films of the series due to Thompson being busy on her own project. She told MTV Movies: “I’m making my own ‘Nanny McPhee’ next year. They mean much more ...

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