Rowling gives $1.8 M to the Labour Party

" Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made a rare foray into Britain's bruising political battles Saturday, donating 1 million pounds ($1.8 million) to the struggling Labour Party and accusing the rival Conservatives of...

Harry Potter earns author £3m a week

Harry Potter earns his creator £3 million a week. The credit crunch will surely not be having much effect on author JK Rowling who's rags to riches story through writing about Harry Potter her teenage wizard...

Bollywood's "Hari Puttar" wins lawsuit

" India's Hari Puttar is set to hit cinema screens this week after an Indian court rejected a Warner Bros. suit claiming the name was too close to its Harry Potter series. The court in its ruling Monday said people...

Emma Watson walking to the London Fashion Week Show in London, England

British Actress Emma Watson who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movies, was spotted walking to the venue of the Vivienne Westwood Show at the London Fashion Week in London, England. The young actress, 18,...

JK Rowling makes £1 million donation to Gordon Brown's Labour Party

Gordon Brown's Labour Party is now a million pounds better off due to Harry Potter writer JK Rowling making a huge donation to party funds. Known to be a close friend of Brown and his wife Sarah, Rowling has dug just...

JK Rowling Wins Copyright Lawsuit Against Fan

As NowPublic reported earlier this year, author JK Rowling filed a lawsuit against Steven Vander Ark for his attempt to publish a fan-created, but unauthorized, Harry Potter encyclopedia.Today it was announced that...

Twilight Moves to Potter's Date

A day after Warner Bros announced that it was moving the latest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, from this upcoming November to July 2009, the studio behind Twilight have decided to open...

The Trouble with Summer 2009

Harry Potter fans were shocked tonight when Warner Bros decided to move the latest installment from upcoming November to July 2009. The reason for this is that the writer's strike affected things to the point where...

J.K. Rowling tells court her 'creativity is stifled' by lawsuit

J.K. Rowling says her lawsuit against a man trying to print an unofficial Harry Potter encyclopedia is giving her writer's block. The Harry Potter mastermind said in court her distress isn't about the money, but...

'Harry Potter' Author Contemplated Suicide

Rowling's rags to riches story is quickly becoming a mainstay of her evolving personal mythology, so this recent revelation that she was borderline suicidal during her difficult years as a broke, single mother, make...

JK Rowling Bashes 'Fan-Created' Harry Potter Encyclopedia

Proprietary much? Shouldn't as successful an author as JK Rowling feel gratified that fans are spending their own time and energy to produced their own compendia of spells, essays, facts, figures, and words inspired...

J.K. Rowling book sells for $4M: dumb?

I'm fairly confident the book's not a four million dollar read, but at least it's going to charity."British writer J.K. Rowling continues to work magic, with a handwritten book of her fairy tales selling for more...

Rowling fairytales fetch £1.95m

"A book of fairytales by the Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, has fetched £1.95m at auction. The Tales of Beedle the Bard had been expected to fetch £30,000-£50,000. But there were frenzied scenes in the sale room at Sotheby's in central London as bidding got under...

Lily Allen's Younger Brother, Alfie Owen-Allen, To Star In Equus

"Alfie Owen-Allen, the younger brother of the singer Lily Allen, is to star in the psychological stage drama Equus after his performance in a marginal film role so impressed the play's scriptwriter, Peter Shaffer, that he ordered its producer to recruit him. Shaffer, who...

Harry Potter franchise is history`s biggest

"According to Warner Bros Pictures, the success of the latest film in the series, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, has boosted the "Harry Potter" films to the top-grossing film franchise in history. The...

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