Filming details for the second movie, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets“, are beginning to drop in. The Scotsman Online reports today, that the West Highland Line, one of the Scottish Highlands’ most popular tourist attractions, is being sought by filmmakers as the location for the Hogwarts Express: Warner Brothers want to use the …read more!

More (minor) Casting News Rusty Goffe, who calls himself “The United Kingdom’s No.1 Dwarf,” is also playing a Gringotts goblin in the Harry Potter movie. On his website he tells us about the filming: “an enjoyable time although the make up took 4 HOURS to apply and ONE HOUR to remove. No joke when your …read more!

Casting News!! A contact, close to the special effects post-production of the movie let us know that “Elizabeth Spriggs, a well respected actress from England, will definitely play the character of The Fat Lady.” This picture of Mrs. Spriggs is from the 1995 Alan Rickman/Emma Thompson movie “Sense and Sensibility”, an adaption of a Jane …read more!

Just one week to go! A Warner Bros. representative confirmed to IGN FilmForce that the new HP trailer will debut with Steven Spielberg’s “A.I.: Artificial Intelligence” on Friday, June 29th. Initial reviews of “A.I.” have generally been very positive, Steven Spielberg’s most ambitious project for years should be the movie event of the summer, but …read more!

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has joined Oprah Winfrey and John Grisham on a US list of the 10 most influential people in publishing, Ananova reports. The list, in alphabetical, not ranking, order, will appear next week in the July/August edition of Book Magazine.

The ultimate reference source for the Harry Potter universe, Steve Vander Ark’s Harry Potter Lexicon, has just added three new reference books: The Bestiary, The Encyclopedia of Spells, and The Wizard’s Atlas.

Corona’s Coming Attraction tells us that the second trailer for Harry Potter will absolutely positively play in front of A.I., the new Steven Spielberg movie, to be released on June 29th in the U.S. (England: September 21st, Germany: September 13th). They also posted some details of its content: “It runs about 2 minutes+ and is …read more!

Promo Magazine posted some details about the upcoming Coca-Cola Marketing Campaign for Harry Potter. (Thanks to CountingDown for the alert) As exclusive promo partner for Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Atlanta-based Coke kicks off an aggressive four-part campaign in September, with some elements set to run for three years. The global effort …read more!

Empire Online and Dark Horizons both are jumping on a Z Review story today, who claim to have the world exclusive first pictures of Harry Potter Coins, that were produced for use in the forthcoming movie. Well, you guys over there at Z Review, this is just wrong – you should do some research first, …read more!

New books on the horizon – Coming later this summer to a bookstore or booksite to you: The Harry Potter Poster Book, to be released on July 31, 2001, and, it seems, 2 versions of each type of calendar. Amazon features the day by day and wall calendars in both “literary” and “movie” formats – …read more!