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Author: Eric & Lisa Rice DVD Release Date: March 18, 2008 Theatrical Release Date: October 5, 2007 Rating: PG Genre: Fantasy/Drama/Adventure Run Time: 110 minutes Director: David L. Cunningham Actors: Ian ... via KBIQ-FM Colorado Springs

“Fudge!"). If there's anything different as the cooking competition series enters its fourth season Tuesday, it's that Ramsay and Fox have embraced his cartoonish persona more enthusiastically than ever. A reference to him as "the dark lord”

You'd think by now that anyone with a reservation for the opening night of a restaurant called Hell's Kitchen would know enough to eat before he or she arrived. via The Modesto Bee

“For a while it will be great for readers because they will pay less, but in the long run it's going to ruin the information. People will stop writing.”

BOOK piracy on the internet could drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales. via NEWS.com.au

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“I go to live shows all the time, and it's pretty rare for me to just feel happy”

Fans enjoy a slow song by wizard rockers Draco and the Malfoys during a concert at the State University of New York at Purchase. via Providence Journal

London teenager to star in three-movie series of Herge's boy adventurer Mark Brown, arts correspondent Friday March 28, 2008 The Guardian Thomas Sangster has been cast as Tintin in a new live-action film based ... via Guardian Unlimited

“Elizabeth", told IANS. "Steve and I are good friends. We've been working on the script extensively. It's a &200-million project, probably the most expensive film I've made and will ever make”

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, March 27 : Internationally acclaimed Indian filmmaker Shekhar Kapur is all set to direct a $200-million Hollywood fantasy-epic for Warner Brothers titled "Larklight". "I was in LA ... via Newkerala.com

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books are being embraced as literary and academic texts in college classes on a number of campuses, reports Patrick Lee on CNN.com. Yale University, Georgetown University, Liberty ... via Reading Today Daily

“This is a big, four-quadrant, family entertainment film, and I think it's something that is completely within the 21 Laps wheelhouse and the kind of films we want to make here”

Regency has picked up a pitch titled Cutlass Island from Tom Wheeler about two shipwrecked brothers who discover a lost world of mythological and magical creatures, says The Hollywood Reporter . via ComingSoon.net

“We asked for her and they said they would provide her”

BRITISH author JK Rowling is expected to appear as a witness at a New York trial next month, in a case called to settle an intellectual property dispute involving her Harry Potter books. via News.com.au

“We can now replicate Carnegie Hall across the country”

Movie theaters are not just for movies anymore. Coming soon will be broadcasts of live baseball games, rock concerts, classic TV shows and an array of other offerings not associated with the silver screen. via New York Times

“What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.”

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has admitted she felt suicidal following the breakdown of her first marriage. via Sky News

“I've got a table tennis table on set and we're always playing between scenes”

English actress Emma Watson has proven herself worthy of yet another feat, thrashing her male co-stars at table tennis. via AndhraNews

“YouTube's provided me with a place to experiment, showcase my creativity and share my identity”

YouTube on Friday announced the videos its users voted the best of 2007, with Harry Potter puppets, a mesmerizing baritone and hungry lions playing starring roles in winning works. via The Age

THAT Alex Benepe , son of Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe , is coming to town Tuesday with fellow students from Vermont's Middlebury College to play Columbia in a game of Quidditch, which Middlebury students ... via New York Post

FILM TITLE "HORTON HEARS A WHO!" BY DR. SEUSS Moviegoers were eager for the March release of "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!," a movie based on the book by Dr. via Belleville News

Cert: PG Derek Malcolm's rating Description: The Grace family move away from the big city to a dilapidated mansion called Spiderwick Estate. via This is London

“I don't know how you live with a smoker”

With yesterday's news that Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has been lighting up between Quidditch matches, my mind turns to smokers and the one living in the room next door. via The Sydney Morning Herald

Pop starlet Lily Allen - who split from Chemical Brothers star Ed Simons in January after suffering a miscarriage - is said to have her eye on Harry Potter star Rupert Grint. via Manawatu Evening Standard

Cineworld said summer blockbusters including the latest Harry Potter film and The Simpsons Movie helped boost pre-tax profits to 12.4 million from last year's 7.7 million loss. via Shropshire Star

“Most of the pictures this summer are very specifically for kind of the geek boys or for the girls or somebody specific. This one really should get everybody.”

Maggie Rodriguez previews upcoming summer movie sequels, including a new Harry Potter movie, and speaks with David Poland of Moviecitynews.com. >> This summer, moviegoers will see some familiar faces on the big ... via CBS News

“He was really nervous about the scene and was sparking up constantly.”

Daniel Radcliffe's friends have begged him to stop smoking. The Harry Potter star, who has become so addicted to nicotine that his co-stars have nicknamed him "Harry Puffer," has reportedly been asked by his ... via The Elements

“He was sparking up constantly”

The warning Smokers Die Younger doesnt seem to ring a bell with superstar Daniel Radcliffe who has been nicknamed Harry Puffer by his co-stars for puffing about 20 cigarettes a day. via AndhraNews

Murdered: Meredith Kercher just days before she died Italian police have removed a Harry Potter book and two guitars in a new search at the flat where Meredith Kercher was killed. via This Is Hertfordshire

“I realised he was huge and I never expected to hear from him again - but he rang back himself a month later and I've been drawing them ever since.”

Fantasy writer suffers more from snobbery than from his early onset Alzheimer's Maev Kennedy Friday March 14, 2008 The Guardian Three months after announcing he had the "embuggerance" of Alzheimer's, Terry ... via Guardian Unlimited

Afraid you might not be able to churn out a Harry Potter series, but the 'author-in-you' is waiting to indulge in wee bit of narcissim and see a book published under your name - help could just be well at hand, ... via Hindustan Times

Michael Jackson keeps his Neverland ranch, the final Harry Potter book will be a two-part movie and Britney Spears is back on the small screen. via ClipSyndicate

“Women have two places: In front of the sink and behind the vacuum”

Bible in hand, Micah Armstrong strides into the middle of a small group of students at the University of Alabama and starts preaching. via The Oregonian

“I think it's the only way you can do it without cutting out a huge portion of the book”

WATFORD, England -- It's official: Eight will be the magic number for the 'Harry Potter' film franchise. via Los Angeles Times

“It fetishises boarding school for children.”

OSCAR winner Tilda Swinton says she can't stand the Harry Potter books - because they make kids think it's fun to be at boarding school. via The Daily Record

“That is not what I'm writing though, so if something comes out next week, I'm not doing it”

London, Mar 11 : Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has revealed that she wants to pen a novel about a stand-up comedian. via Newkerala.com

“We tried to contact RDR Books and Steven Vander Ark several times to have a dialogue about the book”

On one side: global-celebrity author JK Rowling. On the other: an amateur fan site devoted to the world's favourite boy wizard. via Guardian Unlimited

Religious controversies are rife in entertainment. Some Christians say they feel offended by what they consider anti-Christian or antichurch views in certain movies and books. via Post and Courier

“The claim is not about the right of the adult. It is about the rights of the child.”

British author J.K. Rowling revived her bid on Monday to ban the further publication of a long-lens photograph of her son after the initial privacy claim was thrown out by a London court last year. via Reuters

“My dad's rich and your dad's dead”

Here's a ery brief overview of Henry Jenkins and Steve Johnson 's SXSWi 2008 keynote presentation: People don't do things in the end that are meaningless, even when lounging on couch drooling watching bad TV ... via HappyKatie

New King on the Block The end of a beloved book series can be difficult. I know the Harry Potter crowd must be feeling acu... More Alison Morris March, 28 2007 Scholastic Reveals Harry's New Look Scholastic has ... via Publishers' Weekly

“If RDR's position is accepted, it will undoubtedly have a significant, negative impact on the freedoms enjoyed by genuine fans on the Internet”

As the creator of the Harry Potter books sees it, her kindness to fans might come back to haunt her. via Hindustan Times

British actor Daniel Radcliffe has stepped up his security after Harry Potter film studio Warner Bros received a death threat directed at the young star from a stalker. via KNST-AM Tucson

“People don't tend to buy fiction as a present because it's a very personal thing.”

The British buy books by television personalities, Americans are obsessed with self-improvement, French choices are more highbrow, the Germans like holidays while the Japanese have more eclectic tastes. via Times Online

“The Deathly Hallows', the two actors got back and made monkey sounds on the location in Farnham, Surrey. A source said: 'Seeing naked bodies was a laugh - but the joke wore thin.”

From correspondents in London, England, 12:30 PM IST Two male streakers interrupted filming of the new Harry Potter movie 'The Deathly Hallows' by running through the undergrowth during a woodland scene. via India eNews

“It is a hunt and peck, but some people love that hunt”

About 30 people crowded outside on the sidewalk downtown Saturday waiting for the strike of 9 a.m., like baseball fans waiting for tickets going on sale, like concert-goers assuring they'll get seats for the ... via Free Lance

“All of these efforts will be nullified as the goodwill is wiped out in the tidal wave of fame associated with the Harry Potter phenomenon.”

More than two years after it started, a legal battle between a little-known Winnipeg folk group and the creators of the Harry Potter movies is now stretching over three courtrooms in two provinces, with the ... via MyTELUS

“The Potter books represent witchcraft as a generally positive practice, while the Bible expressly condemns all occult practices.”

Title: BOOK BURNING PHOTOS TO BE SOLD FOR LIBRARY FUND On the evening of Sunday, Dec. via Wren's Nest