I was wandering about looking for Emmy results when I spied this on the Yahoo Home page. It appears they’ve nailed this as an exclusive. It’s only available in Windows Media (at least for right now).

According to Sci-Fi Wire, he may need to be replaced due to his failiing health.

According to this Cinescape article (which is about an entirely different aspect of the Harry Potter films) the third movie isn’t expected in theaters until summer 2004. That would imply that they won’t be doing the every-November release plan that Chris Columbus wanted.

EW has posted several new pix from the upcoming sequel to last year’s smash, “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”

I feel like a complete boob: When did I miss Kenneth Brannagh being cast into this film?

bluestrain
writes, Entertainment Weekly has this
short note stating that the publishing date
for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”
has been postponed indefinitely. Well, J.K
Rowling does have a new castle to decorate and
wedding thank you notes to write, so it might be
awhile…

Three years after I finish my Undergraduate degree, the Univeristy of Alberta has introduced a course in the English Department that I might actually want to take. The course is a fourth-year Undergraduate course that discusses moral and social values in children’s fantasy in general and in the Harry Potter novels specifically.
I can’t find any articles about it online, but the course description is here.

Seems kinda anti-climactic after the sheer horror that is that Star Wars story… anyway, the DVD of “Philosopher’s Stone” (or, if you insist, “Sorcerer’s Stone”) is due out on May 7th. (Speculation persists that the fifth book is due out at about the same time, but there’s nothing official out there about that one.)

And J.K. Rowling got married to an anesthesiologist she’s been seeing for about a year. Congrats!

The way I see it, you have two options. You can
click “read more” and find out what exactly I
have to say about this movie, or you can just
save yourself some time and go buy tickets. I
should note now that I’ve never read the books.

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… and it got the highest blessing of them all – series author J.K. Rowling said, “The film was just as I had imagined it.” I’d include a link to the original story but that’s pretty much it.