US Harry Potter publishers Scholastic issued a press release today about their plans to hold a “Harry Potter Place” street celebration party for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Taking place at their headquarters in New York City, Scholastic said things would kick off with a press conference at 8am on July …read more!

There are a few mentions of actors from the Harry Potter films in magazines to tell you about. First, Teen Vogue has posted online some additional quotes from their feature on the trio of Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Among the things posted is this quote from Emma Watson on her role as …read more!

Dozens of readers have owled about a free screening opportunity for myspace users of a showing of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in various cities here in the US. Taking place this Thursday at 7pm, the Black Curtain Screening myspace site says that in order to gain free admittance to a showing …read more!

PotterCast 95 trucks on (with a new truck) to Tucson, Arizona, the next stop on our summer tour for PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast! To listen, just hit the “Play” button on the right side of the page (—>), or use iTunes, or direct download. Live from Tucson, Arizona: – The big 5 questions: Harry …read more!

Actress Imelda Staunton discusses her role as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in a new article, where she describes the film to be ”…a very serious piece of work.” The actress also relates in the interview, her joy in playing both sides of Umbridge, being both ‘sweet and well-meaning …read more!

SCI Fi Wire reports the online 3D virtual world created by its users, Second Life, is teaming up with IMAX for the release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to give their users exclusive access to IMAX Harry Potter content. In the Second Life virtual world, users will be able to get …read more!

A whopping 11 new clips from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix are now online. UPDATE: The website moved these, and you now have to register to see them. We are working on getting them into our galleries and will have them asap. Dubbed in German, these feature many scenes from …read more!

Yesterday, we first told you about a clip of the Occlumency scene from OotP with Professor Snape (Alan Rickman) and Harry (Dan Radcliffe) appearing on syndicated entertainment program “The Insider.” This segment is now online via you-tube, and in this report, you can also see portions of scenes with Umbridge (Imelda Staunton), and the DA …read more!

Will Voldemort be defeated? This is what Scholastic is asking in week six of their series of questions leading up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The US publishers have also updated their Harry Potter site with a new poster of Half-Blood Prince, as well as a bookmark of the latest …read more!

Will Voldemort be defeated? This is what Scholastic is asking in week six of their series of questions leading up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The US publishers have also updated their Harry Potter site with a new poster of Half-Blood Prince, as well as a bookmark of the latest …read more!