Jan 06, 2020
Leaky recently hosted The Golden Cauldron Awards, a new annual online interactive tradition helping us decide some fan favorite moments from the previous year. Voting closed yesterday, and we have our winners! Best Screen Project The Best Screen Project category celebrates on-screen projects starring Wizarding World actors. Nominations included Little Women (Emma Watson), Miracle Workers (Daniel Radcliffe), …read more!
Jul 21, 2019
Twelve years ago today, on July 21, 2007, the last book in the 7-book series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, was released. Due to the immense and ever-growing popularity of the books and films, bookstores and cinemas had taken to holding midnight release parties for the books and midnight screenings for the movies. Fans …read more!
Dec 18, 2018
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed shortlists of semifinalists in nine categories for the 2019 Oscars race and composer James Newton Howard’s spellbinding soundtrack for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is included on the list for Best Original Score. This is the first time in 40 years that shortlists have …read more!
Jul 31, 2018
Today marks the birthdays of J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter, and to celebrate we’re bringing you a magical timeline of milestone events in the history of Harry Potter, all the way from 1996 to 2018. Throughout the timeline you’ll find interviews with J.K. Rowling, book releases, film premieres, the days we found out Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts …read more!
Jul 26, 2017
David Heyman, acclaimed British film producer and common denominator behind the production of all eight Harry Potter films, as well as the first and upcoming second of the Fantastic Beasts series, celebrates his 56th birthday today. Heyman’s importance to the film aspect of the Wizarding World cannot be overstated. He has been referred to over …read more!
Dec 12, 2016
A copy of the companion book Tales of Beedle the Bard (featured in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and written by author J.K. Rowling) will be auctioned by Sotheby’s on December 13th. This is one of the six copies handwritten and illustrated by JKR to be gifted to those who helped Harry become a reality. This copy …read more!
Sep 28, 2016
Hot on the heels of 4 Privet Drive being listed, the house used as Hermione Granger’s family home in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 has gone up for sale. The six-bedroom home, located in the Hampstead Garden area of London, is being sold for the first time in sixty years and is …read more!
Jun 23, 2015
J.K. Rowling has taken to Pottermore to release new content about the Dursleys in celebration of Dudley’s 35th birthday today. This was in line with the reveal of new content in Deathly Hallows chapters on the interactive reading website. Time reports: ‘Rowling gave insight into the backstory of Vernon and Petunia, including the origin of their names, both …read more!