The new issue of Entertainment Weekly has given us our first look at Katherine Waterston as Daniels in the upcoming movie Alien: Covenant. The sequel to the 1979 movie, Alien, will follow a crew of a ship who discover a new planet, what they don’t realize is that with the discovery of the planet comes some very unfriendly features …read more!

IncrediBuilds, a company known for its DIY model kits, has released two new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them kits. The two beasts you can now build at home include a Niffler and a Swooping Evil. These magical beasts join a collection of Harry Potter themed IncrediBuilds models that the company already offers, including Aragog, …read more!

Remember the visceral reaction you had when Voldemort menacingly passed by a cowering Lucius Malfoy (Jason Isaacs) in Deathly Hallows? Recall the palpable fear and tension that registered on Malfoy’s face? Jason Isaacs is no stranger to both eliciting – and depicting – that feeling of terror. He brings that same quality to the creepy new psychological thriller, A Cure for …read more!

**Warning: Fantastic Beasts spoilers below** Even Professor Trelawney couldn’t have seen this coming! Following on from last week’s announcement that Gellert Grindelwald is an Occlumens, J.K. Rowling has given fans another exclusive tidbit of information concerning the dark wizard’s true powers. One fan decided to pick up on another unexplained scene that revolves around Grindelwald …read more!

To round out what has been an unbelievably busy year for J. K. Rowling and and the Potterverse, the announcement of a new jkrowling.com came yesterday via a tweet from its proprietor: https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/811319241089699841 I think it got hugged too hard and panicked. It’ll be back. — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) December 20, 2016 The website is polished …read more!

Jason Isaacs, best known to Harry Potter fans as the contemptible Lucius Malfoy, stars in the prequel to the popular 2011 film, Red Dog. He plays Michael Carter, the older version of the film’s main character. Red Dog: True Blue goes back to the beginning, telling the story of an Australian family and their adventures …read more!

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, in hopes of starting a new Christmas tradition, performed the film score for Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone along with a screening of the movie this past weekend. The show was part of the Harry Potter Film Concert Tour that was reported on earlier this year. The show took place at the Riverside …read more!

Harry Potter fans have put the print versions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and more recently, the screenplay of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at the top of many best seller lists for 2016, as reported by Leaky last week. W.F. Howes Ltd., a UK publisher of large print and audiobooks, has now released …read more!

Season Three of Fargo starts in the spring, and it’s added Remus Lupin to its cast. David Thewlis (Remus Lupin) is set to play V.M. Vargas, and according to Entertainment Weekly, he’ll play: “A mysterious loner and true capitalist who delivers Emmit (Ewan McGregor), the Parking Lot King of Minnesota, the bad news that he has just become …read more!

Miriam Margolyes, Harry Potter’s Professor Sprout, performed her one-woman show, Dickens’ Women, at the Christmas Dickensian Festival this past week in Malton. Dickens’ Women was also co-written by Margolyes herself, with help from Sonia Fraser, and was first debuted in 1989 for the Edinburgh Festival. It has since gone on two very popular world tours …read more!