The charity co-founded by J.K. Rowling has today revealed a new name and a new focus. Lumos, chaired by J.K. Rowling and previously known as The Children’s High Level Group, will continue to work to help institutionalised children across Central and Eastern Europe but will move its focus from Romania to the Czech Republic and …read more!

Two sets of birthday wishes are in order today for James and Oliver Phelps. The actors, who portray Fred and George Weasley respectively, are celebrating their 24th birthdays! Many happy returns, James and Oliver!

The Olympics are a time of friendly competition, forging new friendships, overcoming personal challenges, reaching personal bests. In the deep, dark recesses of the internet, out where everyone can see, we find Ravelry.com which is a knit and crochet community, for anyone who is not familiar with it. And thanks to Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, who started …read more!

The “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” video game has been nominated for a BAFTA Video Game Award. Mentioned in the nomination for Best Original Score is award-winning composer James Hannigan along with Zsolt Marx and Campbell Askew. The other nominated games in the Original Score category are “Assassin’s Creed II,” “Batman: Arkham Asylum,” “Call …read more!

As a follow up to our report earlier today, actress Helena Bonham Carter has given further detail about her turn as Hermione Granger playing Bellatrix Lestrage in the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” films. A new interview from MTV has appeared online in which the actress comments on the placement of the Malfoy Manor …read more!

As we reported previously, the BBC Radio 2 program David Puttnam’s Century of Cinema aired a special feature on the the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” film with an interview from Leavesden Studios with film producer David Heyman, Creature & Make-Up Effects Designer Nick Dudman, and Production Designer Stuart Craig. In an episode dedicated …read more!

Actress Helena Bonham Carter has given an interview for the Dish Rag Blog on Zap2It.com in which the Bellatrix Lestrange actress spoke briefly of the role of her character in the “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” films. Describing Bellatrix as a “horrible… not a cuddly, creature,” she goes on to say: She is sort …read more!

Actor Ciaran Hinds, who will be portraying the character of Aberforth Dumbledore in the upcoming “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” films, was interviewed by the Hill-man Morning Show which broadcasts out of WAAF in Boston earlier today. In the interview, which can be heard here starting around the 5:15 mark, Mr. Hinds spoke very …read more!

Thanks to our Order Partner DanRadcliffe.com, word has now come of a UK broadcast date for the Inside the Actors Studio episode featuring actor Dan Radcliffe (Harry Potter). As readers will recall, US cable television network Bravo first broadcast the interview with the young actor in 2008. This Tuesday, February 23rd, SkyArts (and SkyArts HD) …read more!

There are a few updates to bring you today regarding the continued construction at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Resorts Orlando. Thanks to BrianOrndorf.com, new images of the Hogsmeade areas of the park show us a plethora of new signage now hanging before the shop fronts which read “Tricks & …read more!