In case you’ve felt a little woozy after almost a whole year gearing up for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, I’ve brought a breath of fresh air for the Harry Potter super-fanatic: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson were all at London’s West End this week filming scenes for the two-parter Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

The book, which covers the final battle between Voldemort and the boy wizard, as well as a series of actions scenes and one sure-to-be interesting sequence that mostly involves camping in some enchanted tent, was long enough to get split into two films. Warner Bros was good enough to give the eighth film a green-light, laughing in Scholastic’s face because they got one more marketable property than the bookseller.

I’m a little rusty on my Hallows, but I do know a stunning-looking Emma Watson when I see her. Too bad her boyfriend’s reported as being around the set.

UPDATE: After the cut, I’ve added 31 more photos of the main trio filming in London’s SoHo neighborhood. So many pictures!

Take a gander at the monster from JJ Abram’s Star Trek. I say “the” monster without any sort of pre-knowledge about how many monsters or if more than one monster shows up in the film, and I suppose it really is more alien than monster if we’re going to be splitting hairs.

The photo is from a Wired spread with creature designer Neville Page who did creature design for Cloverfield as well as the upcoming Avatar and Piranha 3D. This particular monster is supposed to look sort of like a snow anus, I kid you not…

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is shooting in Manhattan, spending much of last weekend filming a Chinese New Year in the wee hours of the morning, filling the streets with trash that I’m sure an army of PAs had to sweep up between certain takes.

Imagine my surprise after our last group of on set photos to be contacted by someone claiming to be on the inside with a few mysterious and sometimes blurry photographs, including the above picture which appears to be a set-in-progress of a Crysler Building facade. Will Jay Baruchel’s apprentice be conducting from one of New York’s most recognizable buildings?

More inside…

Feast your eyes on Russell Crowe as Robin Hood in Ridley Scott’s upcoming Robin Hood flick, possibly called Robin Hood, and possibly dealing with Nottingham’s relationship with the French, while under their control. I know, I know, that sounds weird, but I swear I’ve read all this in the trades. Check the Dregs, it’s there.

USA Today debuted the picture of Crowe in his Hood getup, notably without tights but with semi-historically accurate thick leather armor.

I’m kidding, I have no idea if that is historically accurate. I don’t think Ridley Scott does either.

Is that? Yes.

The above image, taken by EMPIRE is only part of the full image of the mo-cap studio (picture by EMPIRE) where Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are filming The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn with Jamie Bell as Tin Tin and Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock.

Did I mention you can see the whole photo at EMPIRE? Or if you click the banner it will take you to EMPIRE? Or how I didn’t take this picture, EMPIRE did? Because I’d really dislike having to remove this image at the behest of EMPIRE.

Yes, officer! Yes, officer!

Sorry, that’s just my reaction to seeing a police that isn’t Lt. Daniels from The Wire. Obviously, I’d call him “sir.”

Horton Foote, the guy who won an Oscar for the screenplay for To Kill A Mockingbird and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta, died in March. His final screenplay was called Main Street, and it is filming now in Durham. N.C under the direction of Tony Award winner John Doyle.

Ellen Burstyn, Andrew McCarthy, Patricia Clarkson and Colin Firth join Bloom in the piece, produced by Reliant Pictures.

Kevin Costner: “All I’m saying is, don’t make a Waterworld like mistake, you know?”

Ben Affleck: “Are you kidding? Did you see the numbers on Daredevil? or Jersey Girl? I’m already there, bro!”

Costner and Affleck are in Boston, MA shooting for their new pic Company Men, which, in such a timely manner, is about the financial crisis. Sorta. Affleck plays a white collar jackass who wakes up on day to find his job and his salary have gone the way of Lehmen Bros. Kevin Costner is is brother-in-law who offers him a blue-collar construction job. Tommy Lee Jones (not pictured, sadly) is set to star as one of Affleck’s previous employers who slowly sees the evil actions of his corporate peers for what they really are.

The film will be the film debut of director John Wells (previously ER). Check for this one around 2010.