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"Harry Potter" star Emma Watson says she plans to return to Brown University to complete her degree.The British actress who plays Hermione (hur-MY'-nee) Granger in the "Harry Potter" series tells The Virginian-Pilot that she remains enrolled at Brown even though she'll study at England's Oxford University in the fall.She says intends to return to Providence in 2012 to complete her studies at the Ivy League school.

Emma Watson left Brown earlier this year, saying she wanted to devote her time to the final "Harry Potter" film and other acting opportunities.The final chapter in the series premiered last week, setting box office records. It took in an estimated $168.6 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That beats the previous best opening weekend of $158.4 million for 2008's Batman blockbuster "The Dark Knight."

Monica Bellucci was born on 30th September 1968, in the village of Citta di Castello, in Umbria, Italy. Her father owned a truck company. Not much is known about her growing up years.

After enrolling at the University of Perugia to study law, in 1987 at 18 years of age, she took up modelling to pay the tuition fees on her own. A year later she left her studies as the glamorous life, travelling, fame etc beckoned.

She relocated to Milan to join the Elite Modelling Agency. Monica Bellucci is one of the few Italian models to have reached the top of her profession, but she decided to study acting, hoping to find parts in films.

Though this sultry icon is a well-established superstar and is at the heights of her career, her one dream remains unfulfilled as yet: that of working with Robert De Niro - the Hollywood Legend.

Casey Anthony was born on 19th March 1986, in Warren, Ohio, Casey Anthony was one of two children of Cindy Anthony and George Anthony, who worked in law enforcement. Casey was a bright, personable young girl, with friends and what many thought was an ordinary American family. However, friends say that a pattern of lying began when Casey was in high school. Cindy and George attended Casey's graduation, along with Casey's grandparents—only to discover that she was several credits short of graduating.

When she was 19, Casey gave her family yet another shock. She had put on weight, and her parents suspected she was pregnant. Casey denied it, claiming she was a virgin. Seven months into her pregnancy, she told her parents the truth. The identity of the baby's father, however, remained a mystery. Casey pointed to different men, including her fiancé, Jesse Grund, as well as a young man she had dated previously, who had died in a car crash.

For the next few years, Casey and Caylee lived with her parents, and Grund acted as the baby's father. Grund even believed Caylee might be his baby, despite knowing that the timing of her conception made it improbable. A DNA test would later find that Grund was not Caylee's father. The identity of Caylee's father is still unknown.

Casey said Caylee was kidnapped in Orlando by her nanny, Gonzales. Casey s friends and family had never heard of Gonzales, and detectives later discovered that, in fact, there was no nanny. The investigators caught Casey in another lie when she told them she worked at Universal Studios, even leading them around the theme park. Casey finally admitted she had been fired from Universal Studios years before.

Mandy Musgrave was born on 19th September 1986 in Orlando Florida. Being the granddaughter of actress Rita Ray, Mandy always had someone to look up to when it comes to acting. However, although Mandy started acting at age 6, it wasn’t until high school did she actually become passionate about the art. After graduating in 2004, Mandy Musgrave moved to Hollywood to pursue a career in acting.

Musgrave easily got the attention of talent agencies and casting directors. Within a year in Hollywood, she landed a guest role in the hit TV show “Malcolm in the Middle.” However, Mandy’s big break came when she won a role in the longtime-running daytime drama “Days of Our Lives,” where she played the role of Chelsea Benson from 2004 to 2005.

To promote the show, she also appeared on several webisodes for “South of Nowhere”, which are still available for viewing at ‘The N’ website. Mandy’s character became a popular icon among teenagers, so much so that she earned her own fan base and received more opportunities, such as the 2009 film “Duck Farm No. 13.” In 2007, Musgrave won the “Favorite Mobile Dramatic Artist Award.

South of Nowhere” ended on the end of 2008, but Mandy Musgrave remained busy in her artwork website, where she plans to sell her paintings to fans. Musgrave has stated that her paintings come at $500 to $2,500 a piece and she will also be accepting custom orders. Samples of her artwork can be viewed on her official fan site, which include paintings of her father, twin sister and her boyfriend Matt Cohen.

The boy wizard has vanquished the dark knight and a band of pirates with a record-setting magic act at both the domestic and international box office.Warner Bros. estimates that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" took in $168.6 million domestically from Friday to Sunday. That beats the previous best opening weekend of $158.4 million, also held by Warner Bros. for 2008's Batman blockbuster. The Dark Knight.

Overseas, the film added $307 million in 59 countries since it began rolling out Wednesday, topping the previous best international debut of $260.4 million set in May by Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.International results for "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" included record openings in Great Britain at $36.6 million and Australia at $26.7 million, according to Warner Bros.Worldwide, "Deathly Hallows: Part 2" topped $475 million in a matter of days, putting it on course to become the franchise's first billion-dollar worldwide hit.

Overall domestic revenue for the weekend totaled $263 million, a record for a non-holiday weekend, according to box-office tracker Hollywood.com.The "Harry Potter" finale also set a record for best opening day domestically Friday with $92.1 million, nearly $20 million ahead of the previous high for "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" two years ago.Other records for "Deathly Hallows: Part 2": best domestic gross for debut midnight shows at $43.5 million, topping the $30 million for last year's "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"; best domestic opening in huge-screen IMAX theaters with $15.5 million, surpassing the $12.2 million for last year's "Alice in Wonderland"; and best worldwide IMAX debut with $23.5 million, beating the $20.4 million for "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" two weeks ago.

The weekend's other new wide release, Disney's animated family flick "Winnie the Pooh," got swamped by "Harry Potter" mania. A return to the hand-drawn animation style of earlier adaptations of A.A. Milne's beloved storybook characters, "Winnie the Pooh" pulled in just $8 million domestically, finishing at No. 6."Deathly Hallows: Part 2" is the eighth and final film adapted from J.K. Rowling's seven novels about the young wizard's indoctrination into a secret world of sorcery and his epic battles with evil conjurer Voldemort.

"It's just a great way to exit, with the class and style that J.K. Rowling wrote into these stories," Fellman said. "It comes to an end, as all goods thing do. When you have the opportunity to be a part of that, to work on all eight movies over 10 years, to see the kids, meeting them for the first time when they're 10 and 11, and just now going to see Daniel Radcliffe at 22 years old in 'How to Succeed in Business' on Broadway. There's a bittersweet part of it."

Overseas audiences remain eager for it, with 3-D tickets accounting for 61 percent of international income on "Deathly Hallows: Part 2."
Woody Allen hit a milestone as his romance "Midnight in Paris" pulled in $1.9 million to raise its domestic total to $41.8 million, a personal revenue record for the filmmaker. The Sony Pictures Classics release beat Allen's previous high of $40.1 million for 1986's "Hannah and Her Sisters."

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 — broke records for top midnight grosses, largest opening day, largest opening weekend in the U.S. and largest global opening weekend, Box Office Mojo reports.

Harry Potter grossed an estimated $168.6 million in its first three days — beating previous record holder The Dark Knight ($158.4 million). The film also grossed $436 million worldwide in its debut — far surpassing previous record holder Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($394 million). The boy wizard franchise is now on track to eclipsing Star Wars as the top-grossing franchise of all time.

Harry Potter stands at $2.177 billion and Star Wars holds the record with $2.218 billion.Transformers becomes highest-grossing film of 2011.Coming in at No. 2 for the week, Transformers: Dark of the Moon took in $21.5 million and became the first film of 2011 to reach $300 million in the U.S. Horrible Bosses ranked third with $17.6 million. Zookeeper followed in fourth place with $12.3 million, and Cars 2 completed the top five with $8.3 million (bringing its total to $165.3 million).

Rounding out the top 10: Larry Crowne (No. 8, $2.6 million), Super 8 (No. 9, $1.92 million, for a total of $122.2 million) and Midnight in Paris (No. 10, $1.89 million). Midnight in Paris has grossed $41.8 million and is now Woody Allen's top-grossing film of all time, moving past 1986's Hannah and Her Sisters' $40 million haul.

London - Emma Watson was "soaked with a vat of water" prior to her Harry Potter kiss.

The 21-year-old actress - who has played Hermione Granger in the wizard franchise since she was just 10 - smooches co-star Rupert Grint in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and admitted the pair were worried about the hotly-anticipated moment "living up to all the hype".

She said: "We knew that we'd been building the anticipation of this moment for 10 years. It'd been going on for so long. Rupert and I really wanted to make sure it lived up to all the hype. We were nervous, it was awkward, but I think we did the moment justice.

"The funny thing about it is the moment before we kissed, we get soaked with a vat of water so we had that going on as well."

Emma - who broke down in tears as she addressed fans at the premiere of the final movie in the franchise at London's Trafalgar Square - explained she will "really miss" living in the wizardly world of her alter-ego.

Addressing co-stars, Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe - who play Ron Weasley and Harry Potter respectively - she added "I will really miss those boys. I will really miss Rupert and Dan. I will really miss being Hermione and living in her world."

Emma Watson was born in Paris, France to parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson. At the age of five, Emma's parents divorced and she then moved to Oxfordshire, England with her mother and younger brother, Alexander.

Her father has a son named Toby, and identical twin daughters, Nina and Lucy, and her mother's partner has two sons. Emma spent much of her childhood residing in England with her mother and stepfather, younger brother, and two stepbrothers.

She trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing and acting. By the age of ten, she had performed and taken the lead in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including "Arthur: The Young Years" and "The Happy Prince".

Casting agents found Emma through her Oxford theatre teacher, and the producers of the film were impressed by her confidence and her natural acting abilities. After eight consistent auditions, producer David Heyman told Emma and fellow applicants, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint, that they had been cast for the roles of the three leads, Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.