IGN Filmforce has more pictures from Chamber of Secrets – a closer look at the faux Weasley car and what appears to be Aragog’s nest in the Forbidden Forest.

Perhaps I’m strangely fixated with this and am the only one who finds it interesting but: Dark Horizons keeps getting Potter-ier. It’s like a subtle transformation, I love it. They also have a new review. Also funny, in my inbox this morning from Fandango.com: “Melissa! HARRY POTTER opens tomorrow! Did you know?” Gave me quite …read more!

A free Salon Magazine article about certain movie theaters that are sensible enough to premiere the movie at 12:01 am on the 16th. Good for them, and lucky for you, if you live in one of those cities. Or within 100 miles of it. If you go, make sure you drive home safely! You’ll want …read more!

Salon Magazine’s Premium Section has an article about the whole Harry Potter – LOTR “battle” between Warner Bros. divisions; the article summary says it’s “the inside story of how a pair of AOL Time Warner movie studios are facing off with the two biggest movie releases of the new millennium. Gah. I hate interfandom rivalries …read more!

The Foxtrot humor continues.

The New York premiere of the Harry Potter movie was covered by the Post who also wrote in today’s Gossip column about actor Robin Williams missing out on a part: ROBIN Williams is bummed he missed out on a role in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” “There were a couple of parts I would …read more!

The New York Post has an interesting article about Robbie Coltrane AKA Hagrid, and his off-screen “antics”

So says MovieHeadlines: boxoffice writes “Warner Bros. confirmed to Zap2it.com that they will give “Harry Potter” the widest opening weekend release of all time, 3,672 theaters and over 7,000 screens.”

Reader Amanda was nice enough to scour the back archives of ChannelOne to find a video version of this trailer discussed earlier. It’s the second commercial in the first commercial break, just after the 4th tick in your RealMedia progress bar.

The New Yorker has its review of the movie up. Interesting take on the Quidditch scenes, the backgrounds in the hospital wing and the relationship between Harry and Hermione.