Home Theater Forum claims to have the very first review of Harry Potter. A quote: Right off the bat, let me tell all of you that Harry Potter & The Sorcer’s Stone is an absolutely outstanding movie. It exceeded all my expectations. Neither a movie overly loaded with action or comedy, the film plays out …read more!

For those interested, here is the full text of the Variety article about Kenneth Branagh joining HPCS: Kenneth Branagh, who made his name directing and acting in Shakespearean projects, has signed up to play Gilderoy Lockhart in Warner Bros’ sequel to Harry Potter, “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” Second film in the franchise …read more!

Dark Horizons gives us a link this morning to the original Drew Struzan artwork for the last HP poster, which is up on his official site.

The Spell Binder now has the full text of the TV Guide article.

You can now listen to 30-45 second samples of all the music on the soundtrack, at HarryPotterSoundtrack.com. The British show Newsround will be featuring the first television interviews with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint sometime soon. Andrew Ralph sent us a link to a short, low-quality advertisement of it – it’s very low …read more!

Poster madness today: Dark Horizons has another one – the one of Harry and Hagrid looking over the lake, with the tagline “Journey Beyond Your Imagination,” that we’ve seen in other languages and on EBay.

Many readers have informed us this morning that The Official Harry Potter Site has added a few things – including the four Premiere covers, a Promotional Calendar, and the third movie poster, which is the same basic design as the official soundtrack cover – the poster has a more detailed, busied look. Reader C.S. Brown …read more!

The Spell Binder now has all four magazine covers from Premiere. Thanks to G.V. Linares of Harry Potter o Filme for No. 1. We’ve also posted a new article from Scholastic News that has an interesting interview with Daniel Radcliffe.

The text of the Premiere article is now up as well! Big, big BIG thanks to Carla.

Another article from Empire Online wherein Columbus does some heavy rumor thrashing. No Hugh Grant, no confirmed Alan Cumming, no nudists, possibly no Spielberg, and possibly no director’s cut. Lots of nos.