Today the UK’s Sky Cinema aired an all-too-brief, tantalising, exclusive sneak peek at Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. The 4-minute featurette begins with Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston giving a quick recap, with footage, of the first Fantastic Beasts film.  They explain how chaos ensued when magizoologist Newt Scamander shows up in New York with a …read more!

Much Muggle ink has been spilled, proverbially speaking, over the possible plot twists and turns in the highly-anticipated upcoming film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. But, intricate theories aside, we wouldn’t be nearly as excited about where Rowling takes us in her latest entry into wizarding history if we hadn’t fallen in love with …read more!

San Diego Comic Con is the ultimate event for fans celebrating fandoms and favorite characters and the ultimate outlet for showcasing upcoming films and television series through highly-anticipated panels and top-secret reveals. Though some high profile regulars, such as Marvel’s Avengers and Game of Thrones, are absent this year, numerous Potter-related panels are on the …read more!

As previously reported by Leaky, Harry Potter will make the move to Syfy and USA Network this weekend! The channels are celebrating the arrival of the series at its new homes with special Wizarding Weekend movie marathons featuring exclusive content and promotions – the first of which will be held this weekend! From July 13–15, …read more!

Perhaps the biggest theater news to be released in the last two weeks regards the further expansion of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child around the globe. Not one–but two!–new productions are planned to open over the next two years–the first in San Francisco, California in 2019 and the second in Hamburg, Germany in 2020! …read more!

This week in the Potterverse, Cursed Child announced a production opening in Germany in 2020, a first-edition copy of Philosopher‘s Stone sold for £56k, a special new Chocolate Frog Card made its debut at Universal Studios Orlando, Hogwarts Castle was nominated as the castle schoolchildren in the UK would most like to visit, J.K. Rowling made the Variety500 …read more!

Easy question, right?  Bet you didn’t hesitate a second before answering.  Neither did the 1,000 kids aged 6-16 who answered this question in a recent survey conducted by English Heritage.  Hogwarts easily topped the list, followed by Cinderella’s Castle and Elsa’s Ice Palace from Frozen.  See the top ten castles from the survey results below: …read more!

When Harry first encounters a Chocolate Frog Card on the Hogwarts Express, his recent exposure to the magical world has him leery about eating the frog.  Ron assures him it’s just a spell (and Harry loses his first frog when it leaps out the open train window), and suggests he could start collecting the cards.  Later, …read more!

This week, amongst a brand new production of Cursed Child being announced for San Francisco in 2019, we’ve also received updates from LEGO and more, news that Butterbeer ice cream is now being sold at Universal Studios Hollywood, MinaLima’s illustrated edition of The Secret Garden release date, and CinceConcerts announcing their performance of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire …read more!

Waterstones Booksellers Limited recently announced that one lucky entrant will win two tickets to the London premiere of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald! The draw coincides with the upcoming release of the hardback edition of J.K. Rowling’s original screenplay for the film. The book features the incredible art of renowned designers Miraphora Mina and …read more!