Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has been nominated for a Golden Reel award in the Best Foreign Feature Film category by the Motion Picture Sound Editors. The awards recognise excellence in sound editing. (Thanks to Alex Fung’s film page for the info.)

A local knitwear company is thanking its lucky stars for the Harry Potter phenomenon. Hawick-based, Teviot Knitwear has won the contract to make all the knitwear for the next two Harry Potter films following the success of its sweaters, socks and stockings in the blockbusting The Philosopher’s Stone. Harry Potter fans unable to wait for …read more!

I’ve now deleted the posts to the “CoS pics” because there is absolutely nothing to suggest they are actually from CoS. 🙂 I’ve become quite convinced of the opposite. Thanks Ian Plowman for pointing us to DVD Debate‘s news item on the HP DVDs arriving on May 11 in the UK. Hmmm….

From the official Harry Potter newsletter: “Harry Potter DVD news! Get ready to bring home the magic! The Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD and videocassette are on their way, and you are invited to an exclusive preview! Keep checking back for your sneak peek at a truly amazing interactive Harry Potter experience… only …read more!

For many people, eating chocolate is like a religious experience. Now a Guiseley church is bringing our worship of the sweet stuff into new Sunday services. And it is also linking Harry Potter and even The Simpsons to themes in the Bible to get people into pews. It’s Oscar nomination time in Hollywood. On Tuesday, …read more!

A correction on the link to the little Access Hollywood movie: it was posted by iharrypotter.net and fansdeharrypotter.com. MuggleNet was where I discovered the link, but they didn’t post it – just wanted to make that clear.

Hollywood union publicists have nominated Universal’s “American Pie 2,” Warner’s “Harry Potter”, MGM’s “Legally Blonde,” Fox’s “Moulin Rouge” and DreamWorks’ “Shrek” for its Maxwell Weinberg Award for top feature publicity campaign. (Thanks to the HP Intayside site for the link.)

Thanks again MuggleNet for this link, where you can see a small video capture of the Access Hollywood clip of the unseen footage – meaning Neville jumping next to the Gryffindor table with his legs locked together.

Barnes & Noble.com announced today record one-day pre-order sales of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD and VHS. CBBC Newsround has more information on the upcoming DVD. Britain’s head prefect. Tony Blair’s Harry Potterish rhetoric may send the wrong sort of message to Europe.

The Amazon.com pre-order page for the DVD has a bunch of interesting facts about the movie on it (thanks MuggleNet for the heads up). Including: Among the portraits on the shifting staircase, you can clearly see a painting of Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s second wife and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Boleyn …read more!