Director Mike Newell has been entrusted with the fourth Harry Potter instalment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, due out next year. Newell will be the third director to tackle a Harry tale. Directors, like actors, usually don’t like…
Bulgarian mega football star Hristo Stoichkov might have inspired J.K. Rowling for the creation of the Bulgarian quidditch team in the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, writer Alek Popov suggested. Earlier in the week it was announced that…
Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce the publication of new Harry Potter editions aimed at the adult market. On July 8th 2004, the first four Harry Potter titles will be reissued in striking new mass market formats for the growing…
[from Nashville Parent Magazine] When the professors at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry decided to reveal some of their most exciting secrets to the Muggle world, they chose a select group of Mad Scientists to spread the knowledge. Kids…
Harry Potter has made two records in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records! They are: WIDEST FILM RELEASE (page 171) Heyday Films and Warner Bros’ Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (USA/Germany 2002) had the widest release of…
Since the 1997 release of J.K. Rowling’s first novel–HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE–no series of children’s books has been more incredibly popular or widely influential. How do we explain the enormous appeal of these stories to children? Should parents…
How do you clean a microwave oven after a dung bomb has exploded inside it? With soapy water, answers home economist Pat Inglis of the Food Safety Info Line, sponsored by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The western-based service went national…
Apparently, threesomes are quite popular on the Internet, according to Yahoo! The company’s list of the most-searched movies is led by the Harry Potter soon-to-be trilogy, and more. It’s followed by “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Matrix” trilogies,…
The plot thickens Remember that bit in Lord of the Rings where Aragorn gets it on with Legolas? No? All right, so Tolkien didn’t write it, but the story is all over “fan fiction” websites. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer…
[from information in French from Infopresse, translated by Dave Haber with help from Altavista] Thirty bookstores thoughout Montreal and Quebec will hold special events to herald the arrival of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in French on…
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