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| Rlaph Fiennes in "Schindler's
List" | Ralph Fiennes, who played memorable
evil guys in "Red Dragon" and "Schindler's List," has signed on to portray
the wicked warlock Voldemort
in the next "Harry Potter" movie, Warner Bros. announced August 18.
Filming has already begun on the fourth instalment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire but Fiennes, 41, has not shot any of his scenes yet.
In the first three films, only Voldemort's spirit has been visible, but
he returns in the flesh for
the first time in the fourth movie.
Miranda Richardson will play journalist Rita Skeeter in the 2005
release.
Daniel Radcliffe returns as the boy wizard Harry Potter, along with
co-stars Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, who play his friends Ron Weasley
and Hermione Granger.
Brendan Gleeson, who stars in Troy, Cold Mountain and the forthcoming M
Night Shyamalan film The Village, has been cast as Potter's new defence
against the dark arts teacher, Mad-Eye Moody.
Katie Leung will play Potter's love interest, Cho Chang.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is being directed by Mike Newell,
who also directed hit comedy Four Weddings and A Funeral.
US and Canadian box office
takings passed the $1bn (￡545m) mark for the first time in June, led by
the success of the third Harry Potter film, according to trade magazine
Hollywood Reporter.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban topped the North American box
office for the month by a wide margin, taking $217.2m (￡118m).
Author JK Rowling recently revealed the title of the sixth book in the
Harry Potter series - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
(Agencies)
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Updated: 2004-08-06 16:29