The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced today their list of seven films in consideration for “Achievement in Visual Effects” and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is one of the films included on this list. Academy members are to screen a fifteen minute clip of each of the films, and then …read more!

Actor Brendan Gleeson has been nominated for an award given out by the London Film Critics for his performance as Mad Eye Moody in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Brendan Gleeson was nominated in the category of “British Actor in a Supporting Role” for his wonderful turn as the Defense Against the Dark …read more!

Daniel Radcliffe will reunite with Sean Foley and Hamish McColl on the British television program This Way Up tomorrow, December 17 on BBC2 at 11:30 p.m. Longtime Leaky readers will remember that Dan had his stage debut in Foley and McColl’s hilarious play The Play Wot I Wrote in November 2002. Here’s a description of …read more!

Scholastic, the US publishers of the Harry Potter novels, today announced their fiscal Second Quarter results. Reuters reports that Scholastic “quarterly earnings fell 8 percent, citing lower results overseas and the impact of hurricanes.” The article continues: “Sales of the Harry Potter backlist pushed trade revenue up 11 percent, the company said. Sales of the …read more!

Slap this one with a very heavy rumor label: The Daily Mail reports that Daniel Radcliffe is in very early talks to appear in a Kenneth Branagh-directed version of Peter Shaffer’s acclaimed but graphic play (not film!), Equus in Jan. 2007 in the West End. The play would be one of three productions produced to …read more!

After working on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and declining the same position for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, American Visual Effects Supervisor Jim Mitchell was enticed back to the HP fold because of Director Mike Newell’s lack of experience with big-budget, special effects-laden films. “‘Usually, it’s in the director’s head …read more!

Here’s a bit of some rocking cool news tonight. “Do the Hippogriff”, from the soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, is on the short list of songs eligible for an Oscar Award. This song, which was performed by Jarvis Cocker and Company as the band at the Yule Ball , is one …read more!

Harry Potter is sixth on Lycos’ Top 50 2005 search terms, while the movie is 27th. Meanwhile, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was the most often-searched movie of 2005 on AOL, with Emma Watson and Dan Radcliffe coming in at 6th and 7th in the under-21 division. Goblet was also the top-searched movie …read more!

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is among few bright spots in the US’s moviegoing year, reports the Associated Press. Potter, King Kong and The Chronicles of Narnia offset unusually low US revenues, which may fall below $9 billion for the first time since 2001.

Here’s your weekly update with the newest of the more than 1,250 items at The Cauldron Shop, the one-stop place for Harry Potter merchandise on the net: –Don’t forget: you can sign up for a wishlist, the same way you do at Amazon.com or your other favorite online stores: Put your favorite Potter items on …read more!