“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” CAST: we have updated the “actors” page for the second movie with all confirmed parts and current rumours.

Thanks everyone who sent us the BBC link. It’s actually semi-old, about Rupert signing into Newsround’s message boards as “permboy” – but note that BBC has since commented that the person currently signing into those boards may not be Rupert, as they changed message boards after that interview and it’s probable that someone else took …read more!

If you need a laugh to break the tension of waiting for the final financial reports to come in from this weekend, visit Grudge Match for a battle between Anakin Skywalker (Episode One era) and Harry Potter.

Karen sent us a link for what we think is the first FanFlik – a trailer entitled Harry Potter and the Mirror of Erised. The “trailer” covers the book’s high points, and the intro of “Once there was a boy…” is on a level with, if not better than, the actually first scenes of the …read more!

Thanks to Rachel Bray from HP4GU for the link to an Empire Online article about how some “Unknown Film Makes World History”. As they said, “In an event which completely shocked the movie industry, an unknown film has shot to the top of cinema box offices around the world this weekend and achieving the highest …read more!

This site was picked as a top fansite by Yahoo Internet Life, linked to from its front page. Also mentioned. were Darkmark, The Wizard World, MuggleNet, The Harry Potter Network, iHarryPotter.net, UK Harry Potter, and The Restricted Section, as well as HP Galleries’ own PortKey. What, no fanfic sites?

OK, Dark Horizons had today’s news up and now it’s gone, so I don’t have the links, but here is what they had to say: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets: The BBC has just done a special report on the second “Harry Potter” film which has been shooting small segments over the last …read more!

We have compiled a comprehensive list of 80 movie reviews – the average tone of the reviews is just mixed to positive, here are some highlights: The Houston Chronicle praised the movie: “Lovers of the book will find most of their favorite moments beautifully realized, perhaps even bigger and more wondrous than they imagined them,” …read more!

Nice article from the Oregonian about HP, and why everyone should see it. Thanks reader Anne.

$93.5 million – in the first 3 days, shattering that little ol’ dinosaur movie that held the $72.1 million record. And that’s the estimate…the 3 days aren’t even over yet. Also, many, many people have mailed to tell us about some quidditch tidbits from the movie: In the trophy case, it says James Potter was …read more!