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By the.time.is.now The official website for the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game is now online! Though it only has a redesigned trailer up so far, the website has much more to come, like mixing ingredients in the Potions classroom and fun mini-games. As an update to our previous story, it also...

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The official site for EA Game's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince game is now online. It has the game trailer, along with a bubbling cauldron and many potions. The release date advertised for the game is November 14th. Check it out here.

By Michael Zenke Filed under: World of Warcraft, Podcasts, Lord of the Rings Online, Culture, Star Wars Galaxies, Massively SpeakingMassively Speaking Episode 12 runs down news and features from Massively.com for the week of June 25th - July 1st. This week Colin Brennan and Adrian Bott up the respectabi...

By Harry and Ginny??? “Harry, Voldemort is getting stronger everyday,” Hermione whispered reading the Daily Prophet. “Listen…six deaths in Oxnard…Muggle town,” Hermione answered, seeing Ron’s confused face. Harry paced his office. He was a highly skilled Auror. Hermione was Mistress of Magic and Ronald wa...

 - It's kind of like reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows after the meandering Order of the Phoenix: With the plot racing inexorably toward its ...

By Alex Billington Over the years I've personally become a huge Harry Potter fan, eventually picking up the suitcase box set last year. I love the series and am always excited for the next installment, even if it doesn't turn out to be amazing, like Order of the Phoenix. I'm already looking forward to Half-Bloo...

By Altaira Share This The L.A. Times weighed in today on the Tolkien vs. New Line lawsuit both in the article: Tolkien’s children fight for ‘Lord of the Rings’ gold and in the “Opinion L.A.” blog. Both the article and blog entry explore the nuances of infamous Hollywood “fuzzy” accounting and play off of eac...

By reddiej USA Today interviewed David Yates from the Half-Blood Prince set, where he and Emma Watson talk about the tangled love lives of the Hogwarts students in the sixth film: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince hits theaters November 21, 2008. Dumbledore, thinking.

By reddiej Empire Online has updated with a preview of the August edition of the magazine, on which a photo of Harry from Half-Blood Prince graces the cover. Inside the interactive magazine there is a preview of the article about the sixth film and another new still from the film, which can be seen in ou...

By reddiej Quote: She speaks of all the young Potter stars, especially Rupert Grint, with real fondness. Daniel Radcliffe, she reckons, will probably end up directing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released in theatres November 21, 2008. In a new interview with Times Online (http:/...

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MTV have a report on how to make potions with the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Wii game. It seems as though, as with many of the Wii games, it's very interactive with the controller and the nunchuck. The game is set to release on November 30th. If you haven't done so already, you can pre-...

 UK - Or, to cut a long story short, it's the plot of the Lord of the Rings trilogy mashed into one film. Farmer is Aragorn crossed with Frodo; Muriella is a ...

 CA - The 'Lord of the Rings' film trilogy has raked in billions for others, but for the heirs of beloved author and creator JRR Tolkien, nothing. ... The Art Of Autumn Newsweek all 3 news articles

By xoanon Share This Los Angeles (E! Online) - The two movies based on the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, may be a long ways off—hang on until 2011 and 2012, nerds!—but they’re pretty much all Mexican director Guillermo del Toro gets to talk about these days. Sure, he’s out promoting this summe...

By Altaira Liv Tyler turns 31 today and Marton Csokas’ birthday was yesterday; he turned 42. Liv, who has been acting in films since the early 90s, graced the screen as Arwen in all three Lord of the Rings movies. Her latest role was that of Betty Ross in The Incredible Hulk which opened in U.S. theaters on Ju...

By Ataahua Peter Jackson has finished filming The Lovely Bones, and is now moving on to producing the first Tintin film as well as The Dambusters. Actor Andy Serkis, who will play Captain Haddock in the Tintin films, told BBC radio that filming will begin in September in Los Angeles, with Spielberg a...

By Wendy Hopefully, they’ll do better graphics for the characters than in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; I love playing that game but the faces, OMG! I laugh out loud every time Harry starts talking because he looks so strange. Tags: half blood prince cast, half blood prince casting rumo...

By Diedye Share This From the New Zealand Herald: Animation technology used in blockbuster movies such as Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings is now helping children to walk. The Gait Laboratory at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Brisbane uses animation technology developed at Weta Digital in...

J.K. Rowling is also being honored by receiving a new award that honors those "whose outstanding achievements have brought honour to Edinburgh". The Edinburgh city council is also planning on adding J.K. Rowling to a new Hollywood-style walk of fame that is planned for the quadrangle outsid...

By accio.brain All Harry Potter characters, settings, and ideas that I have used in this fan fiction are the sole property of J.K. Rowling. I do not own Harry Potter. All of the material of Harry Potter that I used as an inspiration to my fan fiction was created by J.K. Rowling.

By Wendy Image details: Premiere Of Universal’s "Wanted" - Arrivals served by picapp.com In a recent interview with Coming Soon, Jason Issacs confirmed that Lucius Malfoy won’t be in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Here’s the interview (just a little bit, it’s kinda long): CS: What was it...

By Altaira Message board member FarFromHome alerted us to this interview with Andy Serkis by BBC Radio 5 Live. During the seventeen minute interview, Andy answers questions about the challenges of motion-capture acting, his role in Tintin, his portrayal of Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” and, ye...

The actor who plays Lucius Malfoy in the Potter films has given a new interview to ComingSoon.net, who asks him lots of questions about his role in the Potter franchise! Of particular interest, he talks about how he plead with Jo to free his character in Deathly Hallows: CS: What was it like t...

By ajmarra The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II had a lot going for it, but overpowered military units, unbalanced difficulty levels, and a serious identity crisis left the game feeling average, boring, and not so Lord of the Rings-ish. If you're a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, you might w...

By EmmaRiddle The Great British Movie Event (which we previously told you about) took place at the Old Billingsgate in the City of London, England on Tuesday, where a proof copy of Philosopher's Stone and several film props from the movies were auctioned off. Various names from Harry Potter, including...

By Jake Seliger Colleen Lindsay's The Swivet is worth reading, and from it comes an article about women in science fiction and fantasy that uses Harry Potter as a launching pad to argue that sexism animates some attacks on Harry Potter and female science fiction and fantasy authors more generally. I don'...

By XxRockStarxX It all started 6 years ago, my first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. By far the best year of my life. I, being one of the youngest members of my oh-so-big family, was not in the least bit frightened upon arriving. I even made two friends whom, little did I know at that time, woul...

You can find more excerpts from Jo's speech right here. New Harry Potter Prequel Now Online Waterstone's has revealed the entire new Harry Potter prequel contained on the special card that was auctioned earlier in the week in London, England. BEHOLD, the entire card featuring the prequel...

By Morvelaira This lovely guide to the classes in Lord of the Rings Online is mainly aimed at selecting a class and less on how to play one. It also offers handy information on how much of the population plays that class so you can figure out where you might be needed.

By persistentillusion by J.K. Rowling And yet I also learned more about human goodness at Amnesty International than I had ever known before. Copyright of J.K. Rowling, June 2008 The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination by J.K. Rowling Speech Detail

PR-inside.com) HARRY POTTER author J.K. ROWLING received an honorary degree from Harvard University on Thursday (05Jun08). Rowling, presented with an honorary doctor of letters degree, stressed to graduates the importance of imagination in her speech at the Cambridge, Massachusetts...

PR-inside.com) CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP) - J.K. Rowling stressed the crucial importance of imagination during a speech Thursday at Harvard University's spring commencement, saying, �We do not need magic to transform our world. The �Harry Potter� author also spoke about the benefi...

We previously told you that "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling would be the principal speaker at this year's Harvard Commencement ceremony, where she will also receive an honorary degree and for those not lucky to attend you will be able to watch the event via the school's web site starting...

By RedFlame(noreply@blogger.com) Lord of the Rings Online has been in development..for almost 6 years publicly. It started as "Middle Earth Online" being produced by Vivendi Universal. However, after a few years, they decided (not sure of the reason) to pass the game onto a company called Turbine. Turbine had

By Jabberwock(noreply@blogger.com) I doubt I’ll be able to do all of this anytime soon, but for now I’ve watched the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring as well as bits of The Return of the King, and the extra material has been quite good, especially the quieter scenes that punctuate the grand moments (this is somethi...

Readers beware. The brilliant, breathtaking conclusion to J.K. Rowling\'s spellbinding series is not for the faint of heart--such revelations, battles, and betrayals await in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that no fan will make it to the end unscathed. Luckily, Rowling has prepped...

By harrypotterprogs@yahoo.com (Harry Potter Prognostications) Speaking of accents, we played a voicemail from Potter’s Number One Fan in which he picked up Greg’s gauntlet and gave us a multi-character Harry Potter narration. Excellent job, in my opinion. We finished off the episode with the introduction to Patterns In Potter for “Harry Potter and th...

By BabyBlue But now the Harry Potter series is over, and Rowling claims that her "creative work" is being "decimated." Rowling has nowhere to go and nothing to do now that the Harry Potter series is over. After all her literary borrowing, she shot her wad and she's flailing about trying to come up with som...

By CBC Warner Brothers studio says it will hold open casting calls in London for the roles of Lavender Brown and Tom Riddle in the sixth Harry Potter film.

By mischalova A computer hacker that goes by the name “Gabriel” claims he knows how the JK Rowling tale will end: Hagrid is killed by Professor Snape during an attempted ambush of Hermione and Ron. The latter two flee, but are surprised by ...

Harry Potter fans will get the chance to star in the next Potter movie when Warner Bros hold open auditions in London for two key roles in the next film.

By katiebell According to Sussex radio station Southern FM, Warner Bros. is looking for teenagers aged 15 to 18 to play Lavendar Brown and Tom Riddle in the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Open auditions will reportedly be held at Earl’s Court in London on July 1 and 8 respectively. Click...

Listen to the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Soundtrack  CA - Jun 17, 2007 Preview the soundtrack for OotP at Soundtrack.Net. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix opens to theaters on July 11th.