Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban has been nominated as”Best Feature Film “by the Children’s BAFTA Awards. The children’s version of the British Academy of Film and Television Awards will be presented on November 28th, 2004.

J.K.Rowling is lending her support to a fund-raising effort benefiting those with Multiple Sclerosis. The Harry Potter author generously spent thousands of pounds to rent Powderham Castle where a charity black-tie masked ball will be held on Nov. 1st, 2004. Readers will remember that JKRowling also hosted a similar event back in 2002.

Earlier we told you about a story from Ain’t It Cool News on French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet(Amelie) being approached by Warner Brothers to direct the film version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Today Variety has this story where Jeunet does confirm the interest from Warner Brothers, but is still undecided about …read more!

Matthew Lewis has re-opened his official and recently overhauled (although still under a bit of construction) website, Neville-Longbottom.co.uk. Thanks to both Maria and MuggleNet for the link!

Steve Vander Ark of the Floo partner The Harry Potter Lexicon has informed us in a very bleary way that after four solid days of work, the Lexicon’s master timeline has been updated to include all new bits of information we’ve recently learned from J.K. Rowling. For instance, the timeline notes that while Fred says, …read more!

Mugglenet has received a batch of new photos from the filming of the Quidditch World Cup scenes for the upcoming Goblet of Fire movie. These are close-up shots of the tents, and you can see some variety of flags from different countries. On the last page of the photos there are two of the stadium …read more!

In a column in The Hollywood Reporter, Martin Grove writes about the use of DVD’s and the screeners who view them in order to nominate films for the Academy Awards. Mr. Grove says that Academy members need to be able to screen (watch)the films at their own leisure, not just at a formal showing of …read more!

In another list from Forbes Magazine, this time of “Top-Earning Fictional Characters“, Harry Potter is ranked 4th with earnings of $2.8 billion dollars. According to this story from the BBC, to be included on this list,”characters must have debuted in a narrative story on screen, in print or in a videogame.” The top 3 money …read more!

Veritaserum has obtained some pictures of Angelica Mandy, who will portray Fleur Delacour’s younger sister Gabrielle, in the upcoming Goblet of Fire film. These photos are of the actress as she appeared in the recent film Vanity Fair. Click here for the photos. Thanks Pixel!

A few days ago we told you that UK music group Franz Ferdinand may contribute a few songs for the upcoming Goblet of Fire film. As many readers have let us know, in a recent interview with BBC Radio 1 they confirmed their involvement in the film. Ferdinand guitarist Nick McCarthy said: “We were going …read more!