The BBC reports that CoS set a new UK and Ireland box office record, taking £9.8m at cinemas in its opening weekend. It beat the previous best of £8.6m set by the first Potter film a year ago, the film’s producers Warner Bros said. The weekend worldwide take of $142m (£89m) smashed a number of …read more!

Rex Features has images up from the Los Angeles premiere from November 14. Dan wasn’t there, but Emma and Rupert were, along with other Hollywood players.

Reuters UK is reporting that Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets has grossed an estimated $87.7 million (55.5 million pounds) in its first three days of release across North America, which ranks as the third best opening of all time.

I’ve been meaning to upload these pics for quite a while now, so, sorry for the delay… you’re all keeping me too busy! Anyway, press junkets are infamous for giving out cool stuff, and the HP one was no different – here are pics of what all the journalists at the HP junkets received: All …read more!

Allan Hunter of Scotland on Sunday has posted his review of Chamber of Secrets, mentioning that the film “deserves some kind of award for its casting, which is spot on in every role …”

Thank you to Char for putting up this transcript of Jason Isaacs on the Richard and Judy Show.

Simon told us about two new features at the BBC’s site: They have a vote for the most fanciable guy in the HP-verse – contenders include Christian Coulson, Daniel Radcliffe, Tom Felton, Rupert Grint, Sean Biggerstaff, Oliver Phelps (George), and James Phelps (Fred). And there’s also a wordgame. Of course, some of the blokes in …read more!

Newsround’s Lizo Mzimba reviews Chamber of Secrets.

Jonathan Ross of the Mirror has posted his review of Chamber of Secrets (as always, please take note of spoilers), in which he mentions the film is “about as close to being a must-see movie for the young as it’s possible to get.” [We who are not-so-young are looking forward to it, too. 🙂 And …read more!

Slate Magazine. Why isn’t the movie that comes out next week titled Ron Weasley and the Chamber of Secrets? Why isn’t its sequel dubbed Hermione Granger and the Prisoner of Azkaban? Why Harry? What makes him so special? Read the article to find out what Mr Suellentrop thinks about that – and thanks to Amy …read more!