Evanna Lynch took to Instagram yesterday to communicate directly with her supportive fans. She intends to take a break from attending conventions in order to leave room for other pursuits and move beyond her most famous role for awhile. She has been known almost exclusively as Luna Lovegood for the past decade, since appearing in Harry …read more!

Despite what she claims was a terrible audition, Natalia Tena landed the role of Nymphadora Tonks and embraced the unique traits of the quirky metamorphagus. Tena admits that she had never even read the Harry Potter books when she first tried out for the role of Tonks, so she had no clue what the hype …read more!

Zoe Kravitz makes such a quick appearance in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that you may have actually missed her if you weren’t paying very close attention. She appears only for a moment in a photograph found among Newt’s possessions, as his former love interest, Leta Lestrange. Although her addition to the film was …read more!

Most of us grew up watching Disney’s animated classics. We all had our favorites. We fell in love with the story or the setting or the characters. And before we ever heard of Harry Potter’s Hermione Granger, Emma Watson fell in love with Belle. Disney released video of Watson expounding on her childhood love for Beauty and the Beast, …read more!

Jason Isaacs is most well known in the Harry Potter fandom for his chilling portrayal of the pureblood patriarch, Lucius Malfoy. He played Malfoy over the course of five films, seeing the character through highs and lows, a power player and a pariah. In Chamber of Secrets, his disgust for muggles and muggle-friendly wizarding families, particularly the …read more!

My Name is Emily, the debut-feature written and directed by Simon Fitzmaurice and starring Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch, is a ‘life-affirming’ story which just revealed a new trailer for its upcoming theatrical release in the U.S.! The film also stars Michael Smiley (The Lobster, Kill List) and newcomer George Webster (City of Dreamers, Blood Moon). Evanna stars as the eponymous Emily, who …read more!

Brendan Gleeson is best known to Harry Potter fans as the imposing and eccentric dark-wizard catcher, auror Mad-Eye Moody. In his latest film, Live By Night, he plays another complex character on the hunt–the hunt for those who find themselves on the wrong side of the law of the land. Gleeson is Thomas Coughlin, a Boston-Irish cop …read more!

This spring Emma Watson, known as Hermione Granger and, more recently, Belle of Beauty and the Beast fame, discovers there is more than one kind of imprisonment. But unlike her stay in the Beast’s castle, it doesn’t require walls. In fact, it breaks them all. The tagline for Watson’s new film, The Circle, is “Knowing is good. …read more!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them achieved a huge milestone today as it crossed the $800 million mark in the worldwide box office. This, along with numerous positive reviews, makes the film an overwhelming success. Warner Brothers’ production budget for the film was $180 million, which is very high as far as the average film goes, but with …read more!

The Costume Designers Guild recognized Award-winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood, for creating the exquisite 1920s New York City fashion of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Atwood is nominated twice this year in the “Excellence in Fantasy Film” category for her work on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Fantastic Beasts. Atwood has been nominated …read more!