A quick update on the June 5 showing of POA at the LOEWS IMAX in the Lincoln Center area of NYC, which TLC is pleased to be organizing – we’ve already sold over 210 tickets (and about 150 bags of popcorn) – but since the theater holds 600, we’re not terribly worried about running out …read more!

Darren, from Cardsinc.com, wrote us to say the POA trading cards are to be released in the UK on May 25th. On their site, they have scans of the POA cards , some of what we’ve just seen, but there is a new one of Harry protecting Hermione more intensely from the Dementors. Thanks Darren!

A very cool new Sirius poster is up at Mugglenet, check it out!

Din, who runs the web site RonandHermione.com, scanned some of the new HP trading cards – which contain many new pictures and many book and movie spoilers. Each card has a full picture on a front, and a smaller picture and explanations (including movie quotes and plot details) on the back. Enjoy – and thanks …read more!

Mugglenet went to this year’s Collectormania and interviewed Devon Murray and Matt Lewis, and uploaded the video files to their site. Editor Jamie says: In the interview, we find out about funny events that have taken place on the PoA set, what it’s like working with the likes of Gary Oldman and the other new …read more!

As we told you previously, the New York premiere for POA is on May 23rd at Radio City Music Hall. One website now has a time of 6:00 pm for the premiere. Please consider this still a rumour as it has not yet been confirmed by Warner Brothers. We will ,of course, update as soon …read more!

Peter Travers, movie critic for Rolling Stone magazine (who has been very hard on the series so far), put Prisoner of Azkaban in the number 10 slot on countdown of summer movies. (Catwoman is number nine.) Thanks to reader WhyDoesMilkSpill for this one! OPENING DATE: June 4th The first two Harry films wimped out, even …read more!

The Daily Record reported unflinchingly today, in an article about J.K. Rowling turning down a Dr. Who writing gig, that the title J.K. Rowling’s “latest installment” is Harry Potter and the Green Flame Torch. It’s unclear if the article is erroneously reporting the name of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, or erroneously …read more!

Accio, the first HP conference to be held in the UK, has been featured in The Sunday Post; click here to read the article, “Harry Potter and the Conference of Eggheads.” “Accio, which is Potter-speak for a summoning charm, will call together Harry fanatics from across the globe in the perfect place for pepole who …read more!

From the South Wales Evening Post: When Joanna Chammings of South Wales told her daughter, Niamh, that she was pregnant, her daughter said “wouldn’t it be lovely if we had triplets?” Mrs. Chammings shortly thereafter found out that was exactly what she was having. So she told her seven-year old that she could name one …read more!