You can now vote for the 2008 Empire Awards online! (you do need to register, but you just need your email address to do so) You pick who you think should win in each category by typing in their name! Voting closes on Febraury 25 2008.

So vote for the Harry Potter cast/crew and the Order of the Phoneix film! (and I think we can do Ballet Shoes for British Film…. I hope)

As you remember, I posted that some Harry Potter stars were nominated for Golden Globes. And some won!

• Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama –> Julie Christie – Away From Her
• Best Motion Picture – Musical  or Comedy —> Sweeney Todd (Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham Carter and Timothy Spall)
• Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television –> Jim Broadbent � Longford

Today marks one year since I bought Magical – Menagerie!!!! (Even though I had the site on freewebs in May 06). So in honor of the site’s birthday I made a new layout! It is now the default layout, but remember you can always change the layouts.

It’s a bit bright but I still love it! What do you think?! Also, any other layouts you guys would like to see for the site? Just comment and I will see what I can do.

Thanks for a great year everyone! Hope you have enjoyed it as much as I have! Hopefully there will be many more site birthdays to celebrate.

Thanks to Tanvi, from Luna Fans, for telling me about the Theatregoers’ Choice Awards. A few Harry Potter actors/actresses are up for awards!

• FRANCO’S Best Actress in a Play – Maggie Smith
• Best Supporting Actress in a Play – Frances De La Tour
• Best Solo Performance – Fiona Shaw
• Best Play Revival – Equus
• The DEWYNTERS London Newcomer of the Year – Daniel Radcliffe
• The AKA Theatre Event of the Year – Daniel Radcliffe’s steamy publicity shots for Equus

If you recall a few weeks ago I posted that OotP was on the short list for the Achievement in Make-up award at the Academy Awards. That list consisted of 15 films, now it is down to 7:

• The Diving Bell
• The Butterfly
• 300
• La Vie en Rose
• Norbit
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• Sweeney Todd

Members of the Academy’s make-up division will view 10-minute excerpts from each of the seven shortlisted films next weekend and nominate three films for final Oscar consideration on 22 January 22.

The Academy Awards are scheduled to take place on 24 February at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

A new rumour has surfaced on The Daily Mail website!

Crew working on the sixth Potter film, Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, have been told J.K. Rowling’s seventh novel, Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, will be released in two halves.

The books got progressively longer � the first, the Philosopher’s Stone, had 223 pages while Deathly Hallows has 776 � and fans have complained chunks of later novels have been left out of films.

A film source said: “There’s so much to fit that the view is the last movie should be in two halves. There is a huge battle when Harry, played by Daniel Radcliffe, takes on Voldemort that needs to be done really well.”

At Warner Bros, who are rumoured to be thinking of Oscars and a big-name director such as Steven Spielberg for the final film, a spokesman said:

“People are discussing all possibilities.”

I will confirm or say this isn’t true if and when WB decides to tell us.