Bit of a shock this morning in Times Square – the gigunda advertisement there is the first poster, the one of the boats crossing to Hogwarts. I pass it every day (and have been meaning to take pics for a while now. Soon.) But today, I looked up, and it had been replaced — with …read more!

The Simpsons’ Treehouse of Horror looks simply hilarious: Cinescape has a great picture (thanks Trev). I’ve also seen a commercial – Bart in his robes with a wand (his robes have a crest with an “S” inside, what else), and he yells something to the effect of “Let all the evildoers be destroyed!” He subsequently …read more!

Entertainment Rewired, the site that brought us the review back in May everyone thought was bogus, has posted another review, from another theater worker. More Pod race comparisons, more crazy praise for the film. Man, to be an usher right now. Quotage – another Snape bonanza: First of all, the young actors are terrific. And …read more!

The Spell Binder has posted the new pics from Time. Lovin’ the spooky Harry. And The Guardian has a great by-the-numbers article. Quotage: · 31 July is the birthday of Daniel Radcliffe, JK Rowling and Harry Potter. · The film reveals that the 12th use for dragon’s blood is as an oven cleaner. Mostly stuff …read more!

MSNBC is in on the movie length media blitz: “Harry Potter Goes Long”. Thanks to my sister for that link. 🙂

The New York Daily News has an article about reaction to the South Carolina showing of the movie. Thanks to Amber for the tip.

Empire Online has a very funny article called Crouching Potter, Hidden Harry about a movie called Wandering Warrior, that is a Chinese, Potterish martial arts flick.

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!

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.