Not long ago, Daniel Radcliffe traded in his black-rimmed Harry Potter glasses for a bold acting choice. And he has never looked back.
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For those who remember, he was the young boy who gets the girl in the film Love Actually. For those who don’t, Thomas Sangster may yet become a household name. The sixth-former from south London has been chosen by Steven Spielberg to be his Tintin for a three-movie adaptation.
It might have been called Harry Potter and the Eternal Sequel. Faced with the last in a series of books that ended with a climactic showdown, the producers of the ,5-billion-and-counting Harry Potter film franchise did what came naturally: they decided to turn the final installment into two films.
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