Sci-Fi Wire published an interview with producer David Heyman detailing some things about GoF: -The Winky and Dobby subplot has been cut -The Great Hall was stripped and completely redressed in floor-to-ceiling silver for the Yule Ball filming -“One piece of information … we’ve put into another character, which feels perfectly organic [and] works.” -The …read more!

Here yeh go, from Matt, one of our forum admins, of HP on the Oscar screen: Original Score Nomination Screen Visual Effects Nomination Screen

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did not win the Best Original Score Academy Award for which it was nominated, its second and final nomination of the night. Finding Neverland won instead. PoA’s score was written by John Williams, who has been nominated for an Oscar 43 times – besides PoA, most recently for …read more!

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban did not win the Best Visual Effects Oscar for which it was nominated. Spider-Man 2 took the award. There’s still the Oscar for Best Original Score to go, so stay tuned. Either way we’ll have screengrabs from tonight’s event later on this evening.

Tonight, tonight won’t be just any night…it’s Oscar night! Just a quick reminder that as we told you previously Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has been nominated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for awards in two categories: “Best Visual Effects” for the team of Roger Guyett, Tim Burke, John …read more!

We would like to say Happy Birthday to actor Timothy Spall (Peter Pettigrew) who is enjoying his 48th birthday today. Cheers!

We are aware that a snippet about HBP has been posted on MuggleNet andis making the rounds, purportedly from a catalog called Publishers Quality Library Service (which is a real catalog, just not the type of publication first news of the book is expected to show up in – for OotP it was in an …read more!

Thanks very much to Emma-Watson.net for sending us the following photos of the GoF Horntail: Horntail 1 Horntail 2 Horntail 3

…courtesy of Row M. Enjoy! (And thanks Alex!)

Greenpeace is reporting that they recently asked Bloomsbury, UK publisher of the Harry Potter books, to print HBP on 100 percent “ancient forest friendly paper”, which includes recyled fibre, with any non-recyled content coming from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) pulp. Greenpeace writes that “Bloomsbury’s publicity manager stated in an email to Greenpeace that ‘Bloomsbury, at …read more!