HDTV News has a very positive review of the recently released Goblet of Fire High-Definition DVD:

The Goblet of Fire is possibly one of the best HD transfers to date, with clean crisp pictures looking stunning and at times almost 3D like in quality. Warner have made a real effort to provide all of their High Definition release with Dolby TrueHD which adds to the superb mix, especially when pushed through a decent quality amp. The whole experience is an assault on the senses that will leave you demanding more of the same.

Unfortunately, these discs require a very pricey HD DVD player or an XBOX 360 with a separate HD add-on. Prices for this new technology will likely decrease over the next year.

The fourth film won the Bafta Kids' vote for the favorite movie of the year. Rupert Grint and James and Oliver Phelps were in attendance at the ceremony this evening in London. GOF was ousted in the Best Feature film category by Wallace and Gromit.

Images from Rupert's appearance are available in our gallery, a video can be seen here (1 MB, wmv), and screencaps from that video here.

The fourth Harry Potter film recently received two nominations for the BAFTA Kids' Awards: best feature film and BAFTA Kids' Vote. You can now vote for Goblet of Fire in the latter category over at CBBC. The winners will be announced on November 26th at a ceremony in London. Thanks to Mark for the tip!

The fourth Potter film has received two nominations, Best Feature Film and Bafta Kids' Vote, in this year's children's Bafta Awards. The awards ceremony will take place on November 26th in London. Thanks to everyone who wrote in.

Cable channel HBO will begin running Goblet of Fire on November 19th at 7 PM EST. It will then air numerous times through the end of the month.

A "making of" special will also air on HBO through the entire month of November, starting on the 7th at 6:45 AM EST. Thanks to Loria and Robert for the tip!

Entertainment Weekly has ranked the fourth Harry Potter film #36 on its list of the best "high school movies" of all time. Here's their write-up on the flick:

No, we haven't lost our minds. One of J.K. Rowling's ingenious ideas was to blend two literary traditions, fantasy and coming-through-school fiction (a la Tom Brown's School Days). That's particularly true in Goblet, which depicts 14-year-old Harry's heightened state of adolescent anxiety, about the big (Quidditch) game, about finding a date for the big dance, and about juggling homework while saving the wizard world from evil Lord Voldemort.

Thanks to Maria and Zoe for the link!

A few days ago, the nominations were announced for this year's batch of World Soundtrack Awards. A song on the Goblet of Fire soundtrack, "Magic Works," was nominated for "Best Original Song Written for Film."

These winners will be announced on October 14th at the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium. We'll let you know if GOF wins as soon as we find out. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed with the tip!

Goblet of Fire was awarded the "Choice Movie: Drama" award last night at FOX's Teen Choice Awards, voted on by teenagers across the United States. You can see a complete list of the winners here. Thanks to everyone who e-mailed with the tip!

DVD Town is reporting that the HD-DVD for the Goblet of Fire movie will be released on August 29th. We're currently working on verifying this date with Warner Bros. Also, both the front and back cover art for the DVD has surfaced online.

Thanks U-C.net for the tip!

B1 Media, the company which produced the Goblet of Fire DVD, has won for "Major Technical - Best Menu Design" at the 9th annual DVD Awards.

Producer John Pohl commented, "We're honored that this award recognized the elaborate and expressive 3D achievement and strong sense of design the menus displayed. The artistic excellence of these menus contributed to an incredible DVD experience and was a result of the sacrifice that our 3D, compositing, animation and design teams made."

At last night's presentation of the 2006 Home Entertainment Awards, the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie picked up prizes in the categories of "DVD Extras of the Year" and "Sell-Through Title of the Year." The Awards recognise outstanding achievement in home video.

On Saturday we reported that a Canadian court ordered The Wyrd Sisters band to pay back WB's legal fees incurred while fighting the band's original court case. Today, the band says they are appealing the court's decision and will continue to push their $40 million dollar lawsuit against Warner Bros.

A spokesperson from WB says they are "extremely hopeful that we will continue to prevail in this case."

Last November we reported that Winnipeg musical group, Wyrd Sisters, sued Warner Bros. and attempted to have GOF banned from distribution across Canada because they believed a band with a similar name, The Weird Sisters, featured in the movie; the name of the band was never actually mentioned in the flick. They lost their case and have now been ordered to reimburse WB's $140k legal fees.

Thanks to HPANA for the tip!

For their work on Goblet of Fire, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have been nominated for SyFy Genre awards in the categories of best actor and actress, respectively. The pair also picked up nominations for best young actor, and the fourth Harry Potter movie is up for best movie. Voting will commence on July 10th, finishing 30 days later. Best of luck to them!

Thanks to HPANA for the tip!

Miranda Richardson, Rita Skeeter in the fourth Harry Potter movie, recently did an interview with The Independent. In it she discusses how she portrayed the role and the fan reaction after her appearance in Goblet of Fire.

She loved playing the tabloid journalist Rita Skeeter in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. She combined elements of the Vivienne Westwood of yesteryear with "someone like Liz Smith", gossip columnist for the New York Post. "Kids are very generous. I got some really sweet letters saying: 'You were exactly how I thought you should be', so I was very relieved about that," she says.

Thanks to Tomarro for the tip!

Reuters reports today that The Chronicles of Narnia DVD has sold 11 million copies, beating Goblet of Fire which holds just under 10 million sales. Of interest, Narnia was released on DVD nearly a month after GOF went on sale. Don't forget: You can find complete details on the fourth film's digital video disc on our GOF DVD page.

Jenna from DanRadcliffe.com has informed us that the Goblet of Fire DVD has placed in the Guinness World Records for being the fastest selling DVD ever.

The DVD sold five million copies on release day alone. A certificate to recognize this special honor was presented to Dan Radcliffe on set of Order of the Phoenix last month. Comments from the Potter actor, including a photo, will be in the 2007 Guinness Book of World Records.

Warner Bros. is once again trying to tackle Internet movie piracy by signing a deal with BitTorrent which will allow consumers to download hundreds of WB productions legally. TV shows will start off at a price of around $1 with full-length movies costing roughly the same as a DVD rental.

The president of Warner Brothers Home Entertainment Group stated: "We've been struggling with peer-to-peer technology and trying to figure out a way to harness the good in all that the technology allows us to do. If we can convert 5, 10 or 15 percent of the illegal downloaders into consumers of our product, that is significant."

BitTorrent software disables the user from copying downloaded files by using two clever mechanisms: a password must be entered to view the file and the file can only be opened on the computer on which it was downloaded.