Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has won the award for best family film from the Las Vegas Film Critics society. We’re wild about Harry once more! Alnwick Castle, ancestral home to the Duke of Northumberland, will again be doubling as Hogwarts School in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Harry Potter bonfires would …read more!

The magic of “Potter” is reading (from the Flint Journal). The International Harry Potter Fan Site has posted the following: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced eight films being considered for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 74th Academy Awards. A. I. Artificial Intelligence Black Hawk Down Cats and Dogs The …read more!

Dynamic duo continuing to dominate overseas box office (from the Hollywood Reporter). Reader Peppermint sent us a link for the Japanese press interview conducted via satellite with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, and Rupert Grint from the set of Chamber of Secrets. For those who can’t view Japanese, just click on either the Real Player or …read more!

Boy Wizard Harry Potter is still casting his spell over British readers with J.K. Rowling’s young hero claiming five of the top 10 places in this week’s book chart.

I spoke with Rames earlier today about HPGalleries. Due to its high bandwidth (and even higher cost) it’s moving to a new server and should be up sometime next week. Be patient…and we’ll still be around until then.

The film has captivated young audiences around the world and rocketed to third place in the list of all-time box office hits – and now fans of Harry Potter can get their hands on their own little piece of film history, as props from the movie go up for auction (from The Scotsman). Harry Potter …read more!

The “Harry Potter” books rank #1 in the list of the American Library Association’s most frequently challenged books of 2000, according to an article printed in the Christian Science Monitor. Works from authors John Steinbeck and Maya Angelou are also included.

ABC 28 (Lubbock, Texas) reports that an advertisement in Sunday’s Avalanche Journal condeming Harry Potter is causing quite a controversy. In Oneonta, New York, about 80 people have signed a petition saying they oppose “the teaching, the use of or the viewing of Harry Potter books and films.” “It only takes one book at the …read more!

From Ananova: Harry Potter works magic for Belgian card company. Harry Potter not bad at all (from The Monitor, Kampala, Uganda). MuggleNet has posted some information (albeit still in the rumour stage) on the upcoming Harry Potter DVD: It is confirmed that the only amount of extra time on the DVD is 10 minutes! Director …read more!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone passed $800 million worldwide over the weekend (from Yahoo news).