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LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe sat down with Details and talked about his work, his goals and even opened up about his personal life.

On his dream role:
"I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup."

On having a girlfriend:
"Most of my friends have been girls, and I see how they are with their boyfriends and I think, I couldn't do that. I just don't have the time."

On his extracurricular activities:
"I don't pretend to do anything particularly wild. People talk about rebellion and they say, 'Where is the teenage angst?' But I say I try to do it simply by the choices I make in the work I do. I just like wrong-footing people. I write poetry and I love it. I like being different from most other people in my generation."

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Daniel Radcliffe ranks #5 on the Richest Young Millionaires List according to Times Online. The 20-year-old Harry Potter star is worth more than an estimated $64 million.

Just last year, the young star made over $12 million, according to Vanity Fair magazine. His co-star, Emma Watson, ranked #10 with a fortune estimated at $40 million. Also making the list, Potter's Rupert Grint with over $25 million.

Twilight's Rob Pattinson, Singer Leona Lewis, actress Kiera Knightley and Princes William and Harry also made the cut.

As for Daniel Radcliffe, his next film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II is scheduled to hit theaters in July 2011.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Daniel Radcliffe will be ditching his wizard gear to reportedly star in the upcoming movie, The Woman In Black based on a novel by Susan Hill.

The Harry Potter actor told the BBC:

“I am incredibly excited to be part of The Woman in Black. Jane Goldman’s script is beautifully written – both tender and terrifying in equal measure.”

The movie revolves around a young lawyer who finds himself in a ghostly hostage plot.

James Watkins is in the running to direct the film.

As for Daniel Radcliffe's next project, he'll be starring in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I due to hit theaters this November.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - It hasn't even hit theaters yet, but Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is already breaking records - it's sold $32 million advanced tickets, more than any other movie in history.

The final Harry Potter flick, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, opens in 3,800 theaters at 12:01 a.m. on Friday. By the end of the day, it will be in 4,375 theaters, the biggest North American opening for the franchise, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

It's also the first 3D HP film, and it will play in 3,000 theaters (and on 275 IMAX screens) in that format.

“We appreciate the loyalty of the Harry Potter fans and understand that they have been waiting 10 years for this moment," said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution. We can’t wait to show them the movie, which we believe delivers on every level, so we are putting the film out on as many screens as possible in an effort to satisfy demand from coast to coast."

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 hits theaters July 15.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - The final Harry Potter film is off to a record-breaking start. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 grossed $475.6 million worldwide, including $307 million overseas, over its five day opening.

Though it just opened, the eighth flick is already the most successful one in the franchises' history - it now holds the biggest first day and opening weekend records, both domestically and internationally.

Deathly Hallows Part 2 opened in 20,000 theaters in 59 foreign countries and made twice as much overseas as it did domestically, where the movie raked in $168.6 million.

It also broke the opening weekend record that Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides only set this past May when it made $260.4 million internationally over five days in 65 markets.

The only place the flick slightly faltered was in 3D sales, at least in the United States - it had the largest 3D opening ever in 3100 screens but was only seen in that format by 43% of moviegoers.

The top earner overseas is currently Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 - it grossed $659 internationally, twice what it made in the U.S. Part 2 is already on its way to breaking that record.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online) - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 has pushed the magical franchise past the $7 billion mark at worldwide box offices.

After just one week in theaters, the eighth and last Harry Potter movie has already earned $640.2 million. Domestically, Part 2 has currently raked in $214.9 million.

The final film also helped push Warner Bros. passed the $1 billion box office mark for the 11th straight year.

According to Warner Bros., each HP film has grossed the following:

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, $974,755,371


• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, $878,979,634


• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, $796,688,549


• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, $896,911,078


• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, $939,885,929


• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, $934,416,487


• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, $955,417,476

NEW YORK, New York (X17online) -- Nick Jonas will replace Daniel Radcliffe in the Broadway revival of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.

Radcliffe will continue playing the lead role through the end of 2011, with Jonas replacing him starting January 23. Radcliffe earned rave reviews for his performance, and many said he was snubbed for a Tony nomination.

In-between, Glee heartthrob Darren Criss will play the role Jan. 3-22.

Jonas, 18, made his Broadway debut in 2001 in the musical revival Annie Get Your Gun, then played Chip in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast in 2002, then young Gavroche in Les Miserables in 2003.

LONDON, UK (X17online) - A private investigator has revealed that Prince William, Prince Harry, and Daniel Radcliffe were among News Corps.’s surveillance victims.

Derek Webb told the BBC that he was hired by The News of the World to investigate 90 high-profile individuals and their family members, including Daniel Radcliffe’s parents, Prince Harry's former girlfriend Chelsy Davy, and footballer Gary Lineker.

The News Corp. has not yet responded to Webb’s allegations.

LOS ANGELES, California (X17online.com) - Daniel Radcliffe has landed a role in the indie film Kill Your Darlings.

The Harry Potter actor, who will also star in the upcoming The Woman In Black out February 3, will play poet Allen Ginsberg in Darlings.

The flick is about “a murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.”

Radcliffe will be costarring with Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston and Elizabeth Olsen.

The young actor just finished his 10-month run in Broadway's How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.