AICN scored a big scoop today – thanks to ‘FredNGeorge’ for the alert. The Harry Potter movie is over two hours in its present form – YAY! most of you might say, but Warner Bros. will probably want to tighten it down to a more family-friendly 90-110 minutes – we hope they don’t! We quote …read more!

The Fall 2001 catalog from Sensational Beginings has a back cover filled with Harry Potter merchandise, including a gorgeous-looking wooden chest emblazoned with an “H” (probably for Hogwarts, although it could also be for Harry) priced at $399.95, a Nimbus 2000 Coat Rack (which this editor has also seen at a Rooms To Go furnature …read more!

The UK press on Warner’s $70 million price tag for the HP TV rights: “In what is being viewed by US networks as a staggering display of greed, Warner Brothers is reportedly touting the TV rights to Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for £49m – without allowing anyone to actually see the film first.” …read more!

“Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”, page 159 in the UK and page 180 in the US Edition: “I do hope this year’s batch of Gryffindors are up to scratch,” said Nearly Headless Nick, applauding as “McDonald, Natalie!” joined the Gryffindor table. The Toronto Globe and Mail (Thanks MissNorbert) tells us the very touching …read more!

Harry Potter with unprecedented price tag PageSix.com’s Celeb News writer Bill Hoffmann tells us this astounding story in today’s issue: Warner Bros. hopes to cast a powerful spell over the four major TV networks – and get one of them to shell out $70 million for the rights to air “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s …read more!

Some more newsbits on the Harry Potter 2 + 3 movies today: The Harry Potter shoot would encompass 12 (twelve) stages, that include sound stages as well as the gigantic 007 stage at Pinewood Studios in Britain! That seems to confirm our speculation that both movies will be done back to back, possibly even at …read more!

The Sacramento Bee has published a must-read article on the Harry Potter discussion within the Christian community. Here are some excerpts, author of the article is Jennifer Garza Nearly all her life, Connie Neal has tried to follow a righteous path. So why are so many saying she has taken a wrong turn? Neal, 43, …read more!

Amanda passed on this article from the National Post that says the Harry Potter movie is ALREADY getting Oscar buzz: Other movies that are generating Oscar buzz at this early stage include that little-movie-that-could Memento, the fanciful big-screen arrival of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and that Rat Packy update Ocean’s Eleven.

A HUGE update from Premiere Magazine (along with Woman’s Day magazine), (although in all honesty it was scheduled for weeks ago), including some interesting rumors, pictures from their previous paper edition, and a contest with prizes supplied by none other then Deb Martino from the Sylvan Lane Shoppe. I already found the hidden broom – …read more!

Kevin Carlyon, the “High Priest of British White Witches” said JK Rowling, her publisher and the film’s maker deserve to be cursed for not researching witches properly. He claims that Harry is flying his broomstick the wrong way round. The Daily Record reports: “The broomstick is not only for flying. It’s also an important fertility …read more!