Warner Brothers posts international HBP release dates
Visitors outside the United States and United Kingdom can finally get an idea as to when the film will be released in their country, thanks to a new list of release dates posted on the official Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince website!

WB releases NEW Half-Blood Prince trailer!
It's another surprise from Warner Brothers! A brand new trailer has been released exclusively for fans.
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Tom Felton is tweeting but Emma is not
Tom felton who plays Draco Malfoy is on twitter. You can follow him at twitter.com/tomfelton. On a related note, Emma Watson does not have a Twitter account and this has been confirmed on her official website.

JKR's handprints set in stone in Edinburgh
Back in September, JK Rowling was honoured in Edinburgh, receiving an award for her contribution to the city. Her handprints have now been placed in the City Chambers alongside Ian Rankin's, a fellow Edinburgh author who accepted the award in 2007.

Emma Watson 'nervous' about DH kiss with Rupert
Emma Watson has revealed that she too is feeling the jitters: "Well I've never had to do it before so I can't say I have any techniques," she says. "I've never had to kiss anyone on screen so it is all new to me. Of course I am nervous about it. But, apparently it gets quite boring after a couple of takes, that's what Dan said to me anyway." Read the full story from The Telegraph.

Harry Potter 'prequel' sells for $49,000
An 800-word Harry Potter 'prequel' by J.K. Rowling, set three years before the boy wizard is born, has been sold for £25,000 at a charity auction. At the end of the tale, written on both sides of an A5 storycard, the millionaire author writes: "From the prequel I am not working on - but that was fun!". The 'prequel' is available online here.

Worldwide OOTP gross $708m
The fifth movie in the Potter series has now grossed an impressive $708 million worldwide. Its US takings of $254 million have also just surpassed those of Prisoner of Azkaban's ($250 million). OOTP is currently just $8 million from COS's domestic gross.

DH sells 11.5 million copies in 10 days
Scholastic announced today the record breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, selling 11.5 million copies in 10 days. Scholastic was printing copies of DH up until the final hours of the release, and in total printed 14 million books.

To date, all seven books in the series have sold a total of 350 million copies worldwide.

Emma updates official site
Emma Watson has updated her official site with her thoughts on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, along with a recap of her experiences over the past month, including the US and UK premieres..

New 'Order of the Phoenix' trailers released
Warner Bros. released two new Order of the Phoenix trailers, one in the U.S. and one in the U.K. While they incorporate some elements from previous trailers, they also contain quite a bit of amazing new footage. Check them out here and here!

ET reveals new OOTP footage
A special Order of the Phoenix preview that aired yesterday on Entertainment Tonight is now available online thanks to iKlipz. Check it out here! New clips include Lupin talking with Harry at the kitchen table in Grimmauld Place, Dumbledore's Army, and Voldemort with Harry.

JKR implores people not to ruin ending
JK Rowling updated the diary on her official website, asking people not to spoil the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows before its release. She wrote: "Some, perhaps, will read this and take the view that all publicity is good publicity, that spoilers are part of hype, and that I am trying to protect sales rather than my readership. However, spoilers won't stop people buying the book, they never have - all it will do is diminish their pleasure in the book."

'Order of the Phoenix' US premiere confirmed
Warner Brothers has officially announced their plans for the Order of the Phoenix premiere on July 8th in Los Angeles, California. See the press release here