Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings will battle it out for Best Feature Film at the children’s equivalent of the Bafta Awards. (From Yahoo news.) Japan Today reports that the Japanese translation of the fourth installment in the wildly popular Harry Potter series debuted Wednesday in Tokyo. Some large Tokyo bookstores opened earlier than …read more!

Again, a whole rumor-squash note – that Yahoo bit is a tiny bit irresponsible, and here’s why: The “how many movies will the kids do” question was asked repeatedly yesterday, and I’m sure everyone answered differently at different times – but one thing was very, very, clear. No casting decisions have been made on the …read more!

Interviews with David Heyman, Chis Columbus, Dan, Rupert and Emma have been uploaded, again with much thanks to Counting Down for giving us backup tapes. Our interviews with David Heyman and Chris Columbus were done at a roundtable, with about 15 other journalists. The Dan, Rupert, Emma transcript is from a press conference almost all …read more!

Adam has put up the audio of Tuesday’s MTV Total Request Live interview with Daniel Radcliffe – and he sent us a screencap too!

According to Yahoo news, Chris Columbus is of the opinion that “the young stars of the blockbuster Harry Potter films will probably call it quits after the third installment of the series.” (Thanks to Dark Mark for the link.) “His voice is deeper, his manner more assured and he engages in more adolescent high jinks. …read more!

I’m going to wax a little sentimental for a minute here, so bear with me. We’re working on the interviews from today and will have them up as soon as our webbed legs can carry us. But first, a note. Being a part of the press event was a milestone for this site, and I …read more!

Regarding the supposed “Dumbledore scar” we get mail on eight times a day – someone asked Christopher Columbus this today, and he said that he has no idea about why Richard Harris has a scar that looks like lightning bolt over his right eye. “Must have been a rugby match,” he said. I, myself, have …read more!

Attention all press: There was never an eighth book! Geez Louise. Nothing has changed about the number of HP books there will be since JKR announced very early on that there would be seven. Please stop reporting this as if she suddenly decided to write less. Thank you. Back to your regular news.

I’ve just come back from the press thing and have to say one thing: if you thought these kids were cute – times that by ten. Yeah. Then you might come close to how wonderful they are in person. That’s all I can post for now, as I have real work to do – but …read more!

ABC News brings us a bit of the backstory behind why Warner Bros registered those extra “Harry Potter” trademarks: “The trick is, [they] were intended merely as decoys to protect the title of one of the as-yet-unfinished books in the series …” From Hoover’s Online comes this report on how Harry Potter and the Chamber …read more!