HP 2 AND 3 in 2002? Reliable sources at Britain’s Pinewood Studios tell us that Harry Potter 2 has been booked for a whole year’s shoot on Pinewoods famous “007-Stage”. Shooting in Pinewood should start in October 2001! The “007-Stage”, named because many films in the James Bond series were shot there, is Europe’s largest …read more!

A reader close to the production of the film emailed us this information: The filming at Leavesdon wrapped on Wednesday 28th June 2001. I can confirm John Cleese spent two days in the special FX units filming his part as Nearly headless Nick. He had two stunt doubles however you will see only John in …read more!

Rames did an analysis of “Gryffindors at Breakfast” when Harry receives his new Nimbus 2000 in our Galleries section. He points out the Weasley twins and some discrepancies from the book. Here’s our thoughts about those changes from the book.

A reader tells us the latest issue of Nintendo Power has this snippet about the two Game Boy games coming out: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is coming to Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance this fall from EA games. The magical world of J.K. Rowling’s first novel comes to life in two …read more!

A reader has made us MP3 sound clips from the trailer which we’ve linked to the transcript. It contains sound bites from Snape, Percy, Dumbledore, Hagrid, McGonagall, Madame Hooch, Harry, Ron and Hermione. You can download all the MP3s at once through this ZIP file which contains both M3U and PLS playlists to load them …read more!

We try to remain humble servants to fellow fans which is why we do all we can to avoid ads. But sometimes it’s nice to be recognized. This week we’ve been profiled by CNN, the BBC, The Guardian, Empire Online and several other sites for finding how to get the trailer off AOL 24hrs earlier …read more!

The Official Harry Potter Web site FINALLY has the high-quality Quicktime trailer movies up along with Windows Media and Real Player files. We’ll update our trailer stills and have a more detailed analysis soon.

It seems several astute readers have pointed out to us that in the picture of Argus Filch with Hermione and Draco also has Ron appearing. If you recall, the book states that Ron was in the Hospital Wing recovering from a bite made by Norbert when Hermione and Harry went to drop Norbert off with …read more!

Some of you may have noticed that a few of our trailer stills pictures were a bit enhanced today. That’s because USA Today printed a great little article with quite a few still shots from the trailer. Unfortunately, their caption writers have no clue about the book series. Take the picture of Neville rocketing away …read more!

The Official Harry Potter Web site FINALLY has the high-quality Quicktime trailer movies up along with Windows Media and Real Player files. We’ll update our trailer stills and have a more detailed analysis soon.