Double Trouble for Draco and Ginny

The Cambridge News has a short interview with the two people who played the doubles for Draco and Ginny in the Prisoner of Azkaban film. Joe Parsison, who was the double in the scene where Draco gets his come-uppance, said "It was really cool. We got taken up there in a Mercedes each day and got to knowContinued...

Make- A-Wish Foundation and Harry Potter

The Make-A-Wish Foundation is making one girl's dream come true when she gets to meet the cast from the Harry Potter films. A young girl who suffers from the birth defect Spina Bifida is being flown to England to the set of the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire film. Talking about the Harry PotterContinued...

Richard Griffiths Wins Theatre Award

Richard Griffiths (Uncle Vernon) was named "Best Actor" at The Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his role in the play The History Boys. Congratulations Richard. Thanks Liz!

JKR Spokespeople: Book Six Release Date Rumors False, Info to go on JKRowling.com

Two separate spokespeople for Jo Rowling told TLC today that all these bookstore "memos" going around telling people to expect an announcement on the release date of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in early- to mid-January are completely uninformed.Continued...

PoA One of Newsweek's Top 10 of 2004

Newsweek Magazine in the US has named PoA one of its top ten films of the year, along with films like Sideways and The Aviator - they say "third time's the charm"!

PoA DVD Cleans Up at Box Office

This week's Entertainment Weekly shows that the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD gained first and sixth place earnings (for the widescreen and fullscreen editions, respectively) in DVD sales in its first week out of the box. Thank you Elizabeth for the info!

JKR.com: Happy Birthday, Charlie Weasley!

JKRowling.com says today (December 12 already in England) is Charlie Weasley's birthday!

JKRowling.com: "No News is Good News" (Except there's lots of news)

Our favorite author has updated her site, explaining why "No News is Good News":

I have nothing noteworthy to report, because I have been spending nearly all my time sitting in front of my computer writing, re-writing and taking the occasional break to bang my head off theContinued...

Followup: Daniel Radcliffe's Christmas Card

A few weeks ago, we told you about actor Daniel Radcliffe's (Harry Potter) Christmas card that he was sending out this year. It featured a photo taken from the filming of the second task of the upcoming Goblet of Fire movie. The USA Today has more on this card, and what went into setting the sceneContinued...

Happy Birthday Kenneth Branagh

Today actor Kenneth Branagh (Gilderoy Lockhart) turns 44! Happy Birthday Kenneth!

GIVE A GALLEON Update and Special Message from the HP Cast

We're halfway into our GIVE A GALLEON drive and more than half our inventory is gone, so get moving - give a Galleon, get a sticker and support literacy all at once.

A few of your friends from England wanted to tell you the same. They really wanted to say, nice and simply, to Give aContinued...

JKR Wins Domain Name Tussle

J.K.Rowling has won a legal battle in a typosquatting claim, and will have the domains "kjkrowling.com" and "www-jkrowling.com," currently registered to an individual in Uruguay, transferred to her. A typosquatter purposefully incorporates mispellings and common typos into domain names, to harvestContinued...

"Unfortunate Events" actor Liam Aiken once a Harry Potter Contender

There is a good interview in New York Metro with actor Liam Aiken, who stars as Klaus Baudelaire in the new film "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events " based upon the children's book series of the same name. The young actor Liam Akien at one point wasContinued...

All the World's a Stage

As we know, some of Great Britian's finest actors appear in the Harry Potter films. These actors are also known for some of their work in the theatre. Several of our favourite actors will be returning to the stage in the near future, as well as performing in some new motion pictures as well.
Ralph Fiennes (Lord You-know-whoContinued...

New "Behind the Scenes" PoA Clips

Emma-Watson.net has some cool new clips from behind the scenes of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.