Harry PotterMuggles rejoice! Magic is surely in the air with news today that "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" will be split into two feature length films, the first of which will hit theaters in November 2010.

But like an uninvited trip through somebody else's memory (we're looking at you, Harry), the news, while satisfying, offers up nearly as many questions as answers. If only Dumbledore was still around to help us sort it all out, right David Heyman?

"The question will be, where do you break it? And how do you make them one but two separate and distinct stories?" the "Potter" producer asked in a recent "LA Times" story. "Do you break it with a moment of suspense or one of resolution? These are the interesting challenges." Read More...

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Daniel Radcliffe in 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'Is the "Harry Potter" film franchise done passing the wand? After the first two films, Chris Columbus stepped aside as Alfonso CuarĂ³n, Mike Newell and then David Yates expanded the Potter-verse. But could it be that Yates, who shot "Order of the Phoenix" and is in the middle of "Half-Blood Prince," will be the last one to leave his mark?

Children's writer Lois Lowry thinks so, as she wrote on her blog Tuesday, telling her fans that Yates had pulled out of shooting an adaptation of her book "The Giver" so that he can do "Deathly Hallows" instead. "He has just decided he wants to do the final 'Harry Potter' first," she wrote, "thereby postponing 'The Giver' for several years." Read More...

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For some, it was TMI -- for others, too little. J.K. Rowling's epilogue to the "Deathly Hallows" may have actually caused more debate than the rest of the book, simply for the who-ended-up-with-whom element, some of which we knew and saw coming, and others, like Draco gets married?! And spawns?! that we still can't get behind. But for Luna Lovegood and Cho Chang, or at least, the actresses who play them, they're quite happy with their happily-ever-afters -- even if Jo didn't see fit to give us all the details in the actual book itself. Read More...

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