Potential nominations for the “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” film continue to be in the air, as the BAFTA organization has included the sixth Potter film in their longlist of potential nominees in a total of seven categories. The British Academy Film and Television Arts list of the first round picks by the 6,000 …read more!

We have a brief follow up for you this morning on the recent images of Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) from the Spring/Summer 2010 Burberry fashion advertising campaign that have been appearing in magazines and online. Thanks to reader Roonwit and our Image Galleries crew, we now have a behind the scenes video of Miss Watson …read more!

This afternoon at 12 pm Eastern time, PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast, will be hosting a live recording over on our LiveStream channel. Please join the PotterCasters for their first show of the new year as they discuss the very latest in Harry Potter news. Listening is easy; simply log on to Livestream.com and listen …read more!

TotalFilm.com has published the nominations for their 2010 TotalFilm.com Movie Blog Awards, and have included a nod to The Leaky Cauldron in the Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Blog category. We at Leaky are greatly honored to receive this nomination, and to be among such other popular blog sites nominated by TotalFilm.com. The winners of the 2010 TotalFilm.com …read more!

The “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” film has been chosen as one of the seven finalists in the Achievement in Visual Effects category for the 82nd Academy Awards. As readers will recall, in December the sixth Potter film was among fifteen semifinalists included in the short list of potential VFX nominees by the The …read more!

Today is a special day for Leaky and all its loyal readers. Five years ago today the Leaky Lounge, our forum, was born, and Leaky itself changed forever: from a small news-posting blog to a worldwide community, from a one-way news posting service to a great depository of ideas, writing, theories, reading groups, creativity, laughter, …read more!

New photos from actress Emma Watson’s Burberry fashion advertising campaign have been published in various magazines for the new year. Thanks to our awesome Image Galleries crew, we have for you a round up of a number of these photos. Firstly, print advertisements featuring Miss Watson have appeared in the February issues of GQ Magazine …read more!

Thanks to reader Euan we now have a scan of the February 2010 Empire Magazine feature on the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I” film. Available to view right here, this short preview includes actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and director David Yates relating their experiences and feelings about the final film. …read more!

An article from WENN reports that, upon finishing filming his part in “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” Timothy Spall took a prosthetic ear from the set as a memento of his time in the films. Spall, who has played the part of Peter Pettigrew since 2004, is quoted in the article: “I lifted a …read more!

This evening in the UK, actor Matt Lewis (Neville Longbottom) made an appearance on the BBC One quiz show “Celebrity Masterminds” to play for the CAFOD charitable organization. This UK-based charity works to aid those suffering in poverty around the world by working with “poor and disadvantaged communities in the global South to overcome poverty …read more!