Here is a video from Reuters of Dan at the world premiere of The Woman In Black.

Daniel Radcliffe certainly is spreading his wings. Life after “Harry Potter” is looking good. He recently hosted “Saturday Night Live!” He has a new movie coming out on Feb. 3, “The Woman in Black,” a horror film about young lawyer who travels to a remote village where he discovers the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals. He just finished nine months on Broadway singing and dancing in “How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.” And on Tuesday he will join  Kelly Ripa for the Jan. 31 edition of the talk show. Too bad his main audience will be in school.

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The Woman in Black has been cut by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to secure a 12A certificate.

James Watkins‘s adaptation of Susan Hill‘s novel stars Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe in the lead role as lawyer Arthur Kipps.

The BBFC confirmed that six seconds of “strong violence” and “horror” had been cut and other scenes darkened and sound levels reduced to gain its 12A rating.

“This work was cut,” the board confirmed. “The cut(s) were made at the request of the distributor to achieve a particular category.

“To obtain this category cuts of 0m 6s were required. Distributor chose to reduce moments of strong violence / horror in order to achieve a ’12A’ classification.”

It added: “Cuts made in line with BBFC Guidelines and policy. A ’15′ classification without cuts was available.

“In addition to the six seconds of visual cuts, substitutions were also made by darkening some shots and by reducing the sound levels on others.”

The board also advised consumers that the 94m 47s cut of The Woman in Black ”contains intense supernatural threat and horror”.

Radcliffe has claimed that The Woman in Black ”is going to be terrifying” and that test audiences were “leaping out of their seats” during screenings.

He has been praised by Albert Nobbs star Janet McTeer for “trying to do something totally new to him” with the Hammer Film production.

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Time Out towers was buzzing with fevered excitement today as none other than Mr Daniel Radcliffe was in the office to guest edit an upcoming issue of Time Out magazine – ahead of the release of ‘The Woman in Black’ on February 10. I am ashamed to say that I haven’t actually watched any of the Harry Potter films (I failed to mention this to him), but was still a tad overexcited to meet the man behind those legendary round glasses. And what a lovely chap he was.

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First off, Dan was suited and booted to be shot by our in house photographer Rob Greig. This guy certainly knows how to strike a pose. He graciously paused to have his picture taken with a superfan (aka our usual Editor Tim Arthur).

Next on the agenda was a tour of the office to meet the gang and see our impressive collection of magazines. With a few pauses to sign autographs for *ahem* friends.

On finding out about our film team’s heroic Harry Potter Marathon, Dan pointed to the bottle of whisky and remarked how that probably helped to get through all of the films back to back. He braved an editorial meeting with all of the section editors to discuss the upcoming magazine and thought of some cracking ideas.

I’d love to tell you all the other fun stuff we got up to and great stuff we came up with today but it’s a big surprise. To see his magical vision for the magazine, you’ll just have to wait until February 9 for the exclusive Daniel Radcliffe excitement. Watch your back Tim Arthur, there’s a new head honcho in town. Sonya Barber

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Added some HQ photos from Dan’s appearance on the 17th at the nominations  for The Orange British Academy Film Awards 2012 and added some HQ photos from Dan’s Munich photo call for The Woman In Black.

He fought dragons, battled irate mermaids and warded off dementors (figuratively at least) during his tenure as Harry Potter.

And it seems Daniel Radcliffe’s versatility when it comes to dealing with unfamiliar creatures hasn’t waned since.

The actor looked delighted when presented with a live penguin to feed by Sir David Attenborough on the Jonathan Ross Show this evening.

Made a new friend: Daniel Radcliffe fed a snack to a penguin under the indulgent eye of Sir David Attenborough on the Jonathan Ross Show this evening

Sir David looked on indulgently as the actor presented the bird with a tempting snack.

Not everyone Daniel meets is so comfortable interacting with the star however, and he described one unfortunate incident to Jonathan.

He said: ‘They love Potter in Japan. I had my truest Beatle-mania type experience once when I was over there when I was walking through a school corridor.’

‘I was visiting a Japanese school for a publicity thing. I brushed a young girl as I was walking past her and I said, “Oh, I’m so sorry.” And she fainted.‘

Took it in his stride: Having dealt with animals a great deal on screen as Harry Potter, and on stage during his Equus tenure, Daniel was more than comfortable

Daniel at least took the occurrence in his stride it appears, as he continued: ‘I had brushed her and spoken to her and it was too much and she fainted.’

Sir David Attenborough’s chat saw the show take a more serious turn, as he spoke to Jonathan about home, and voiced his fears about global warming.

He said: ‘Where I really like to be, most, is home. Because the North Pole’s great, but home is what I miss. I miss good cooking.’

‘We can see very clearly that the climate is changing. In going back to South Georgia, I’ve seen glaciers retreat. Now one retreating glacier doesn’t prove that it’s changing, you have to take a proper view, and the proper view is that it’s changing.’

‘Now there can be an argument as to how far human beings are responsible for that change, but in the end, that’s not the point.’

‘If, in fact, the sea is going to rise because of melting ice, and rise by as much as a metre or something, that is a very serious problem for lots of cities around the world which are all built close to the sea…this is the time to deal with it, not to wait until it’s happened.’

On a lighter note, comedian Noel Fielding revealed that he used to want to be a zoo keeper and he once saw monkeys released all over Camden when opening a zoo.

He explained: ‘When I was a kid I wanted to be a zoo keeper. And me and Julian from the Boosh actually opened the spider monkey enclosure at London Zoo…they officially asked us to, and there was a plaque there and everything.’

‘And what happened was they put the trees too close to the fence and they all got out and they were just wandering around Camden.’

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Daniel Radcliffe says he has prepared a defence against people who criticise his casting as US poet Allen Ginsberg.

The writer was famously unkempt with an unruly beard – a very different look to the clean-shaven Harry Potter star.

But Radcliffe said he had no qualms about his looks after James Franco portrayed Ginsberg in 2010′s Howl.

He told the BBC: “Any criticism of me not looking right for the part – well, James Franco is way too good-looking to play Allen Ginsberg.”

Radcliffe, 22, will play a young Ginsberg in the forthcoming thriller Kill Your Darlings.

The film is based on the true story of the murder of David Kammerer, an event that united the beat poet Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944.

Principal photography for the film starts on 12 March in New York.

Ginsberg, famed for his 1957 poem Howl, was one of the leading figures of the 1950s beat generation of US artists.

The beat writers rejected materialism and conformity and promoted personal freedom and the use of mind-altering drugs.

Ginsberg has previously been played by comedian David Cross in the 2007 film I’m Not There; and Franco, whose film dramatised the obscenity trial surrounding Howl.

Radcliffe told BBC News: “I won’t watch any of them because I’m a terrible copycat”.

Although the most famous image of the poet is as a balding 30-year-old with a full beard, Radcliffe said he would not be trying to recreate the look.

“This is a 19-year old Ginsberg,” he said. “I remember somebody saying to me, ‘Are you going to grow a beard?’

“No, l’m not playing him at 40. That would be weird, they wouldn’t have cast me. He’s 19, clean shaven and has just got into Columbia University.”

Good taste

The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.

Previously, he has stripped on stage for the play Equus and starred in a Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

He will next be seen as a grieving husband and father in horror film, The Woman in Black, based on the long-running stage show.

Radcliffe said he was committed to showing his versatility as an actor.

“I think it’s as important to me, as it is any actor who has any aspirations of having a long career,” he said.

“Ultimately, I think it’s about showing people that you have good taste, I suppose.

“For instance, if a Brad Pitt film comes out, I’ll go and see it because, even if I know nothing about the film, I know he’s got pretty good taste and it’s going to be interesting at the very least.

“I suppose it’s about letting people know that I’m doing the type of films they want to see.”

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Added 8 portraits photos for Dan’s appearance on Saturday Night Live.

Elizabeth Olsen has joined Daniel Radcliffe in the upcoming film Kill Your Darlings, Variety reports.

The 22-year-old actress will star in the film which “tells the story of how a murder at Columbia University in 1944 brought together the young writers who would spark the Beat Revolution.”

Also joining the cast are Boardwalk Empire’s Jack Huston and Chronicle’s Dane DeHaan.

Lizzie will play the girlfriend of Jack Kerouac (Huston). Daniel will play Allen Ginsberg and Dane is set to play Lucien Carr, a classmate of Daniel’s character for whom he develops romantic feelings.

Filming will begin in March.

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