Amazon is finally selling action figures for CoS, including Hermione in semi-polyjuiced cat form and Malfoy covered with slime. They have also been reported on the shelves of Wal-Mart, where you can also find Fred & George Quidditch figures – but no Ginny or Riddle figures have been presented yet. Thanks to [email protected] for these …read more!

Well, I’m proud to announce that The Leaky Cauldron won Best Topical Weblog in the 2002 Bloggies. I’m even more shocked than when we were nominated. I’d like to sincerely thank Rhiannon Llewellyn, a recent but excellent addition to the TLC staff. She has tirelessly updated the site on a daily basis while myself and …read more!

Leading games publisher Electronic Arts reported a solid jump in earnings and revenue Wednesday, buoyed by strong sales of games related to the Harry Potter movie and “The Sims.” The article begins, “Of the five films most likely to be nominated for best picture in this year’s Oscar race only one is ‘Questionable’ in the …read more!

Just for fun; BBC television show Blue Peter instructs children on how to conjure up an enchanted castle that looks just like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and also how to make a magical Wizard’s hat. (Thanks to The Snitch for the article.)

Warner invites armchair wizards to Harry Potter chat. When so many children are reading books that are more than 300-pages long, one can’t but wonder what they are reading and why. Such is the case with J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series (from the Baytown Sun). The movie about the teen-age wizard Harry Potter has arrived …read more!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has won the award for Best Family Film from the Phoenix Film Critics Society. Thanks to Mirko at Coming Soon for passing along the news that on February 5th, Warner Home Video will be announcing all the details about the upcoming Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone DVD release. …read more!

Thanks to Ali Wildgoose and DiagonAlley for a forward of an email from a friend of hers who works in the publishing industry. To quote the email, “[a]pparently she [JKR] is unhappy with two chapters, and is rewriting them and planning for an end of school term (in the UK) release.” Note: while this particular …read more!

Magical and quirky, the Potter series is reputed to be among the bestselling publishing cross-over hits ever with 55 million prints and counting in circulation in the U.S. alone. But what sets Potter apart from the pack is not so much the creativity of J.K. Rowling, but rather, the bite that the traditional print book …read more!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has been nominated for Best Achievement In Period/Fantasy Costume Design by the Costume Designers Guild. Also in the running are Blow, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Planet of the Apes. (Thanks to Alex Fung’s Film Page for the information.) Stephen Fry to host BAFTA awards ceremony. Harry casts …read more!

Well, we can finally take one rumor and pin it to the “true” column – we just got word from WB that Jason Isaacs is confirmed as Lucius Malfoy. (You know, in case the Variety article wasn’t enough for ya.)