The Sun reported on Wednesday that a number of valuable props from the film have been stolen and are now being auctioned by mammoth online auctioneers, Ebay. The police are already investigating the sale of token items that were originally given to stuntman in thanks for work on the certain blockbuster.

Blockbuster? For a film that isn't released for another fortnight? Yes indeed, according to online rag Screen Daily. Advance sales have broken the previous record of Star Wars Episode 2: The Phantom Menace and the word around the fire is that 1000 prints will be made to cover demand - the previous record was Toy Story 2 with 768.

To give an impression of the scale of British aud's craving for celluloid Potter, the site published these figures from cinema chains. Odeon have taken around 150,000 advance bookings since they opened the flood gates a fortnight back. Ster Century Cinemas is selling around 500 advance tickets per site daily, while Warner Village Cinemas has sold more than 90,000 since last weekend. UCI has sold more than 70,000 - that's 310,000 from those three. Blockbuster? Potter will break records.

The most dubious bit of news (yup, The Sun again) is the allegation that young Danny Radcliffe's voice broke toward the end of the shoot. Here's the punchline - recently teenaged Londoner Joe Sowerbutts (please!) was paid 300 grand (it rose from 200 large the day before) to stand in for continuity's sake. Naturally Warners denied it whether it was true or not.

The London preem takes place on Sunday night in a Leicester Square, but will it be big enough?