The GATE’s review is now online (thanks, Jake!), as is a review in the the Kingsport Times-News.

Earlier this week, VARIETY reported that the total North American ticket sales were a million dollars more than originally predicted – $93.7 million. Producer David Heyman attributed its success to several factors including older kids turning up in droves. They grew up reading the books and continue to follow the movies. Teens are a core …read more!

Newsround has revealed Cedric Diggory as Robert Pattinson, who has been in the upcoming Vanity Fair (trailer

Many thanks to Juliet, who transcribed David Thewlis’s June 8 appearance on Rove Live. We have the transcript below – but please note that some of the language would definitely be rated 15+ by the Australian Film Commission. TRANSCRIPT OF DAVID Thewlis INTERVIEW ON “ROVE LIVE” TUESDAY 8TH JUNE 2004 IN AUSTRALIA Rove: He’s an …read more!

Count Your Sheep is all about Harry Potter today – and their forums have a chance for people to vote on which strip character should “be Harry Potter”.

India’s Mid-Day newspaper has been filled with Potter-themed articles this week. On Sunday, they ran a story about the Indian premiere of PoA. The article also has an interesting image – it’s the familiar photo of Harry and Hermione in her pink jacket, but an image of a big black dog is superimposed over them. …read more!

Continuing his amazing worldwide interview sweep, Alfonso Cuaron will be on PRI’s The World on the BBC today; they always put up the shows, so we’ll have a link to the interview once it’s been uploaded.

John in Seattle tells us that The Seattle Symphony Orchestra is performing three works of John Williams this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday as part of the very popular Pops series here. “Prince of Pops” Erich Kunzel will conduct the Symphony in “Symphonic Blockbusters”. Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” and Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” are …read more!

Veritasserum has photos of David Thewlis from the Australian premiere. And we at TLC are thrilled that the Antipodean HP fans can finally enjoy the film!

Ix let us know that a video of the Trio’s appearance on last week’s Ministry of Mayhem is now online. Ron gets a magic trick and draws, Emma is not as talkative, and Dan does his air guitar thang and gets to be more geeky, which we all appreciate very much. Thanks to Evie for …read more!