Chris Rankin's new job

The Sun reports on Chamber of Secrets star Chris Rankin and his new day job; selling popcorn and seating patrons at the UCI cinema in Norwich [UK]! Quotage: "The pay isn’t nearly as good — but I do get a free ticket."

Kirstin sent us a small

Kirstin sent us a small article about Daniel Radcliffe from People Magazine including a bunch of the quotes Melissa put her transcript of the group interview from last week.

Suzanne gives us a link

Suzanne gives us a link to the BBC interview with Jason Issacs where he mentions a bit about Book 5 as well as Chamber of Secrets.

Leaving canon for a bit,

Leaving canon for a bit, for a snip of fandom news
Until October 31, you can still do an early bird registration for Nimbus - 2003, the first international Harry Potter event.

To bring you up to speed, Nimbus - 2003 will take place from July 17 - 20, 2003, at the Walt Disney World Swan & Dolphin Hotel in Orlando, Florida.Continued...

The Hollywood Reporter: One last Oscar campaign for Harris?

Website Coming Soon has picked up on a story from The Hollywood Reporter which says that the film My Kingdom, featuring Richard Harris in his last starring role, will open in the US for an Oscar-qualifying awards run Dec. 6. Harris received a best actor nomination at the British IndependentContinued...

Emma Watson in Teen People

Thanks to the many readers who sent us this scan of Emma Watson featured in Teen People. It's a really cute interview:

"It's not easy being the only female in a room full of teenage wizards, but Emma Watson seems to handle it just fine. "I stay on my toes"..."Dan and Rupert make funny facesContinued...

BBC Interviews

Click here for the BBC's interviews with Dan, Rupert and Emma

If you missed "Oprah"...

Her official website has posted video clips and information on ordering a transcript of today's show, Stars of Harry Potter.

Southern FM in the UK

Southern FM in the UK also reports that Christopher Lee is in contention for the Dumbledore role (reports Alex) so we're keeping our eye on the reports as they develop.

Bareback riding stunt-double

Ain't it Cool has posted this bit from a reader:

A friend of mine takes riding lessons here in the UK. Specifically a town called Chelmsford in Essex.

One of the instructors let slip that Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double is practising bare-back riding for the filming of the next Harry Potter film - Prisoner ofContinued...

Downloads

A German site has a page of downloads of interviews, the TRL clips, etc - and we've been putting off posting it for fear we'll crash their server. Well - here goes the old college try...the downloads page is here.

Tom Felton (in hooded robes).

A newly scanned version of a pic of Tom Felton from a Spanish magazine called Gatopardo - thanks again to Schuyler for the image and Christina for this translation:
Draco (Tom Felton) is Potter's arch-enemy. A member of Slytherin house, he has hated Harry since the first day of school, a mix of envy and jealousyContinued...

Daniel Radcliffe Interview

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Emma Watson Interview

On CountingDown!

COS Press Clips

Our friends at Counting Down have posted 15 clips from CoS - go, now!