E Online weighs in on the length of the upcoming movie.

The BBC has posted the comments from the younger folks on what they think about the upcoming movie.

Some GREAT news from the Guardian Unlimited – The Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, last night received a 10-minute standing ovation after its first screening to an audience of cinema distributors in Los Angeles. One member of the audience told The Sun: “It is better than could be expected… particularly the …read more!

The Evening Chronicle has an article about how merchandize in the UK is disappearing quickly – as if by magic.

According to the London Telegraph, HUNDREDS of thousands of people has pre-bought tickets for the movie: THE film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is set to break British box office records. Fans have already pre-booked 500,000 seats and there have been requests to hire cinemas for private showings. The world premiere is at the …read more!

Harry Knowles from Aint It Cool News gives the soundtrack a high endorsement.

Before you buy the soundtrack today, if you go to HMV Online, and do a search on Harry Potter, you can get the 2cd set we know they’ve been selling in London (it also uses “Philsopher’s Stone” in the title, so we know it’s not American). It’s only $17.99, too. Thanks to reader AC for …read more!

The new Time magazine is out, and has a few new pictures, but they’re only marginally so. It’s a slightly different headshot of Harry (albeit a freaky looking one), a new pic of the Trio running away from Fluffy, Snape on some strange background, and a headshot of Hagrid that looks slightly different than the …read more!

Salon Magazine links to an AP article on the merchandise, saying it is “flying off store shelves.”

Holy giant Potter posters, Batman. GV Linares of Harry Potter o Filme has posted pics of a tremendous HP advertisement in Brazil. And I thought the one in Times Square (pics of that soon) was huge – this one looks like it dwarfs it. You can see it here, here, and here. Wow. Big.