Pirate copies of the Harry Potter movie in Asia: According to Bloomberg News, bootleg video discs of the movie, due for its Asian release in Malaysia and Singapore on Thursday, are selling for $1.20 to $1.30. Low-grade copies filmed in movie theaters with pocket digital video cameras arrived in Malaysia’s capital Sunday and in China’s …read more!

Los Angeles Times sports columnist Mike Penner looked deep into his crystal ball and tells us the fascinating story of Quidditch from the year 2028 – must read 🙂 In late 2002, Nike bought out Nimbus and undersold rival manufacturer Firebolt by its use of cheap child labor in southeastern Asia. When Tiger Woods proved …read more!

Actress Nicole Kidman tells reporters that she’d love a chance for even a cameo in the upcoming [Harry Potter movies]. Not for the money, but for her children – as in, her children. “If I could get them on the set, I’d be super mom.” (from the Post-Dispatch)

Jubilant Warner Bros. executives reported that “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” – playing on an unprecedented 8,200 screens in 3,672 U.S. locations – had far surpassed the $72.1 three-day opening record set in 1997 by “The Lost World: Jurassic Park.” “There were 15 possible industry records and every one of them was shattered,” Dan …read more!

A crush for the older set is emerging from the movie – the Harry Potter for Grown Ups-Movie list is abuzz with swoons. And it’s all for Sean Biggerstaff, a.k.a. Oliver Wood. The Snitch put up a good page of his pics. Daniel, Rupert, we love you – but Sean’s, well, not 12. 🙂

“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” CAST: we have updated the “actors” page for the second movie with all confirmed parts and current rumours.

Thanks everyone who sent us the BBC link. It’s actually semi-old, about Rupert signing into Newsround’s message boards as “permboy” – but note that BBC has since commented that the person currently signing into those boards may not be Rupert, as they changed message boards after that interview and it’s probable that someone else took …read more!

If you need a laugh to break the tension of waiting for the final financial reports to come in from this weekend, visit Grudge Match for a battle between Anakin Skywalker (Episode One era) and Harry Potter.

Karen sent us a link for what we think is the first FanFlik – a trailer entitled Harry Potter and the Mirror of Erised. The “trailer” covers the book’s high points, and the intro of “Once there was a boy…” is on a level with, if not better than, the actually first scenes of the …read more!

Thanks to Rachel Bray from HP4GU for the link to an Empire Online article about how some “Unknown Film Makes World History”. As they said, “In an event which completely shocked the movie industry, an unknown film has shot to the top of cinema box offices around the world this weekend and achieving the highest …read more!