J.K. Rowling lost a bid in court today when a judge in the UK ruled against the Harry Potter author who had tried to stop publication of a photograph involving her young child. The case involved a photograph taken of young David Murray, then 20 months old, as he was out with his parents for …read more!

Rotten Tomatoes UK recently caught up with Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuaron and spoke to him about his feelings on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, and asked the director if he had any interest in returning to direct the film of the last Harry Potter book. Saying he has just begun reading “Deathly …read more!

The New York Times has a new article and video feature online contrasting and examining the directors of the first five Harry Potter films, along with the themes, effects and actors that have evolved in step with the films. The article first discusses the four directors of the series: Chris Columbus, Alfonso Cuarón, Mike Newell …read more!

Some excellent high-res photos are online tonight from EmmaEmpire.net showing a fans recent trip to to the Divinity School and Leavesden Studios in Oxford to tour the original Harry Potter sets. In this set you see excellent images of the Great Hall, Hospital Wing and much more. The images from the set tour can be …read more!

Actor Timothy Spall has given a new interview where he discusses his role as Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter movies. Promoting the release of his film Pierrepoint:The Last Hangman here in the US (it aired previously in the UK) Timothy Spall talks with Coming Soon.net about his role in the series, however was not …read more!

UK bookseller, Waterstones, released a list of their ‘top 25 books of the last 25 years‘ to commemorate the companies quarter century in business and “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” the first book in the series by author J. K. Rowling, topped the list. The ‘Top 25’ winners were chosen by the public, via …read more!

MTV.com has an article online asking some popular film directors such as George Miller, director of “Happy Feet,” Rob Zombie, of the horror flick “Halloween,” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” director Guillermo del Toro, of how they would take on the magical world if they were chosen to direct the final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly …read more!

The first image of a special box set due from Scholastic containing all seven Harry Potter novels is now online. This set, which you can see here in our galleries, includes a nice case or trunk with the Harry Potter logo on it, as well as what seems to be printed hardback copies of all …read more!

The Lancaster newspaper reports that young vandals caused more than £50,000 worth of damage to the Hogwarts Express train carriages in the railway depot where they are stored. The police in the town of Carnforth say that the vandals, thought to be as young as ten, smashed the train’s windows with its own emergency hammers. …read more!

A word of caution: There’s an e-mail going around from someone impersonating the unit publicist of Harry Potter, claiming they’re opening Daniel Radcliffe’s Official MySpace profile and seeking input. This is a fraudulent e-mail. Daniel Radcliffe is not opening a MySpace (and just for extra measure, none of the ones claiming to be him are …read more!