Earlier this afternoon Chris Columbus, director of the first two Harry Potter films, gave an appearance in Winnetka, Illinois at The Book Stall, where he read an excerpt from his upcoming children’s fantasy novel, House of Secrets. Co-written with young adult author Ned Vizzini (The Other Normals, It’s Kind of a Funny Story), House of Secrets will be released this coming Tuesday, April 23, 2013.
In this week’s Caption Contest image, Xenophilius Lovegood whispers into Harry’s ear at Bill and Fleur’s wedding. Read all of the winning captions for this week’s contest now!
Harry Potter alums Imelda Staunton, who portrays Professor Umbridge, and Toby Jones, who provides the voice of Dobby, are set to star in Circle Mirror Transformation at the Rose Lipman Building in London. The production is part of the Royal Court’s Theatre Local Project, and will run from July 5 to August 3.
The ScreenJunkies YouTube channel is dedicated to highlighting movies and TV shows that are worthy of watching. One of their recent videos (the one above), is a trailer spoof for the Harry Potter films.
There are less than three weeks until MISTI-Con, the Harry Potter experience coming to Laconia, New Hampshire on May 9-13. MISTI-Con, an event you won’t want to miss, includes a Tri-wizard style challenge, a masquerade ball, and actors from Harry Potter *and* Doctor Who!
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As previously reported, Scholastic has brought on artist Kazu Kibuishi to design new covers for the 15th anniversary collection of the Potter series to be released over this year. The new covers can be bought as individual books or as a boxed set, which is now avaliable to pre-order before the release at the end of August.
MuggleNet’s global re-read, Alohomora!, has been listened to by almost three quarters of a million people in the last year. They’ve covered two and a half books (plus the corresponding movies), had over two dozen amazing guest hosts, and have talked about themes and issues in the Potter series that have quite literally never been discussed before. Today, April 18, they celebrate their one year anniversary with a very exciting announcement! Well, TWO announcements, actually!
Those of you who were lucky enough to be able to attend Quidditch World Cup VI this past weekend, are no doubt still talking about how amazing it was.
It has been announced that The Bling Ring, starring Emma Watson, will open the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Films in the Un Certain Regard section run parrallel to the main Cannes selections and are judged by a separate jury and awarded a separate prize, to be announced May 25.
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