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The Philippine edition of Seventeen magazine is “looking for 17 guys to make your summer sizzle,” and Daniel Radcliffe has been nominated. He’s 23rd on the list right now but you can vote to bump him up here. The poll is updated each Monday, and the Seventeen Boys of Summer will be featured in the …read more!

CTV.ca reports that PoA is under 2.5 hours, the shortest of the three HP movies so far: Harry Potter fans who want to see every detail from the books translated into the screen versions might be uneasy over the projected length of Prisoner of Azkaban: less than 2½ hours, the shortest of the series so …read more!

Or, rather, four of them. Bloomsbury announced four new covers for Harry Potter one through four, all designed similar to the adult jacket of OotP. The adult hardback of OotP has reached 10 percent of total sales, the press release says. The books will be rereleased on July 8, 2004, the four-year anniversary of the …read more!

A number of published reports are saying that Mike Newell, while getting ready to direct GoF, has said that the fourth Potter film will cost 170 million pounds, 5 million pounds more than Return of the King, and the most expensive film ever made. Newell also said he’s casting at the moment, looking for “giant …read more!

A rare draft copy of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” sold at auction for 1,468 GBP or $2,500 USD. This proof copy of the book was considered valuable because of a printing error where the author is credited on the title page as JA rather than JK Rowling.

Leaky readers who were so quick to point this out to us, pat yourself on the back: the Guardian ran a correction today, saying that the WH Smith award would not be JKR’s first adult award (see more in our previous correction here)- as she won the Hugo in 2001.

In conversation with the Bishop of Birmingham (the Rt. Rev John Sentamu) yesterday, the Queen had herself a chuckle when she named Albus Dumbledore as the headmaster of Hogwarts, the Daily Telegraph reported today. The bishop asked the question during his sermon the Queen was attending the service (her country home is near Sandringham). :”The …read more!

Ix sent us a scan of the LA Times article, with a beautiful new pic of Hermione and Harry helping Ron on his bad leg in PoA:

The San Bernadino Sun’s “U Film” section has a new article on PoA, with new quotes and even a new pic of Harry reading by wandlight. Cuaron speaks of his differences from Columbus: “It’s just different minds, with different virtues and different flaws,’ Cuaron says graciously by phone from an editing room in London. “What …read more!