Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has won the Variety Club’s award for best newcomer. The awards are held by the entertainment industry’s charity for disadvantaged children, and will be broadcast on BBC One on Wednesday evening. A report from The Sun informs us that there’s an itchy problem on the set of the second Harry …read more!

The final nominations are in and voting is now open for Moviefone’s American Moviegoer Awards. Daniel Radcliffe (outstanding actor), Richard Harris (outstanding supporting actor), Maggie Smith and Emma Watson (both for outstanding supporting actress), the film itself, and Chris Columbus (outstanding director) are all in the running. Thanks to The Wizard World for letting us …read more!

A copy of the first edition of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone has fetched more than £9,700 at auction in London. A cruel pet owner used his owl to cash in on the Harry Potter phenomenon. He offered children the chance to be photographed with the beautiful bird of prey in a …read more!

And the nominees are… Sorcerer’s Stone pulled three nominations for Academy Awards – Art Direction, Costume Design and Score, where John Williams has some strong competition from… himself (he was also nominated for A.I.).

Fearful of the influence Harry Potter books may have on impressionable young minds, a parent at a Terrebonne Parish elementary school has asked a School Board member to investigate claims that the books are too violent and promote witchcraft and wizardry. IGN Filmforce has more pictures from Toy Fair, this time of some additions to …read more!

Thanks to the HP Intayside site for this link to pictures from the LEGO 2002 showroom at the latest ToyFair. Upcoming “Harry Potter” LEGO products include a Crabbe and Goyle playset and Quidditch Practise. The first Harry Potter film has got off to a promising start at the Chinese box office, and has not suffered …read more!

Some news from Rames and HPGalleries – it should be running by mid-next week. They’re transferring stuff and all that server mumbo jumbo that I don’t understand. In the meantime, he gives us a fantastic link to Windows Media file of behind-the-scenes footage of HPSS (from the WB promotional video) without audio commentary. (Watch Rupert’s …read more!

Thanks Dominic for a heads-up about a new Whomping Willow play set in which you get the Ford Anglia, the Whomping Willow and even a tiny Aragog! Here are two pics of the set (number one and two, taken from Ebay). Also thinks to “Super Slytherin” for informing us that while reviewing the movie Rollerball, …read more!

Quidditch, anyone? Better yet, since we’re looking for alternatives to Saturday cartoons, write a message in invisible ink made from owl droppings and have a friend use troll’s blood to decode it. The options are absurd only if you’re outside the loop. If you want to know how to play quidditch, or encounter a troll, …read more!

From Gil Smart of Lancaster Online: “After last week’s bit about how the Penryn Fire Police’s decision to boycott the YMCA triathlon on account of Harry Potter is making us look like a bunch of hillbillies, I got a lot of mail. Some of it, from witches. Yes, witches –or, more accurately, wiccans. A link …read more!