Entertainment Weekly has posted their list of 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years and Harry Potter has come in at number 2!

The list will be in the June 4 issue of Entertainment Weekly which releases tomorrow.

Thanks TLC!

ABC Family is having a “Harry Potter Memorial Day Weekend” next weekend starting on Friday!  Check your local listings to be sure of the times but here is the schedule:

Friday, May 28:

• 8:00pm: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Saturday, May 29:

• 4:30pm: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• 7:30pm: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Sunday, May 30:

• 4:30pm: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• 8:00pm: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Monday, May 31:

• 6:00pm: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Warner Bros has revealed to SnitchSeeker that exclusive content from the Harry Potter films will be released with the LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 video game which will be released June 29, 2010. The clips, also listed on the BBFC page, will be a behind-the-scenes clips from the films titled “Fun on the Set of Harry Potter” and will feature Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson.
00:00:31:11 CAR CRAZY
00:00:25:20 CAT-ASTROPHE
00:00:26:21 QUIDDITCH PITCH PRANKS
00:00:22:00 TROLL TROUBLE
00:00:21:00 TEA BREAK
00:00:38:02 MANDRAKE MAYHEM

You can order the game in multiple formats by heading over to Amazon.com(link goes to all versions) or Amazon.co.uk

UPDATE: This is only for the collector’s edition of the game.

As we posted back in January, Warner Brothers purchased Leavesden studios and planned to revamp and open part of the studio up to the public.  Their request to do so has now been approved and will open some time in 2012!

Warner Brothers, which has brought world-wide fame to the former aerodrome complex with its Harry Potter franchise, can now begin a programme of redevelopment worth an estimated £100million – creating hundreds of jobs and providing a boost to the local economy. The company, which will now purchase the site outright and use it as its European filming base, will build new film stages, production and administration facilities. It will also open a Harry Potter themed visitor attraction to cater for up to 5,000 visitors a day.

Three Rivers District Council’s development control committee finally approved the plans this evening, after ironing out most of the numerous queries and objections raised by local residents and councillors. These concerns, most of which were raised at a similar meeting last month, included the potential impacts of increased traffic congestion, noise and light pollution.

Many residents also expressed alarm at the size and scale of the visitor attraction, which will offer tours of old Harry Potter film sets when production on the franchise comes to a conclusion later in the year. Councillor Stephen Giles-Medhurst, who has represented residents’ concerns throughout the planning process, stressed the need for further road improvements before the site opens in 2012 but expressed his support for the scheme.

Thanks to my friend hmrpotter we have some pretty interesting news about the Harry Potter trailers! Apparently, the music for the trailers is done by Magic Box Music, as seen in their portfolio.  They have done the trailer music for all the Potter films, you can watch/listen at the following links: Half Blood Prince, Order of the Phoenix, Goblet of Fire, Prisoner of Azkaban, Chamber of Secrets and Sorcerer’s Stone. They are currently working on Deathly Hallows Part I and II.

ONE WAY… ONE FATE… ONE HERO!
Once again Magicbox is hard at work on the latest Trailer for the final chapters of the Harry Potter Franchise. The Deathly Hallows will consist of two full length feature films released a year apart. Voldemort’s power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore’s work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for them, so everything they do must go as planned.

Thanks to a press release we have the first photo of James and Oliver Phelps at the opening of Harry Potter: The Exhibition in Canada!

The exhibition is a timed entry experience and will be open for visitors during the Science Centre’s extended regular hours: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily up to June 25, and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily from June 26 to August 22, 2010. On opening day, Friday, April 9, and Saturday, April 10, the exhibition will be open until midnight. Tickets are now available online at www.OntarioScienceCentre.ca, by calling 416-696-1000, or by visiting the box office.

Admission to Harry Potter: The Exhibition, which includes general admission to the Science Centre’s exhibition halls, is $27.50 for adults; $23.50 for seniors and youth (ages 65+ and 13-17); $20.00 for children (ages 4-12). For Ontario Science Centre members, admission is $14 for adults; $12 for seniors and youth; and $10 for children.

UPDATE: Thanks to SnitchSeeker you can see more photos over at their gallery!