Katie Leung, the Scottish film and stage actress best known to Potter fans as Harry’s first love interest Cho Chang, celebrates her 30th birthday today. As reported here by Leaky, Leung will also be a special guest at this year’s LeakyCon in Dublin, Ireland Aug 31-September 3 along with fellow Potter alumni Evanna Lynch who …read more!

Holliday Grainger has spoken more about her role as Robin Ellacott in the new Cormoran Strike TV series, Strike: The Cuckoo’s Calling. The first book will be split into three hour-long episodes which will air on BBC One. Strike is, of course, based on J.K. Rowling (/Robert Galbraith’s) best selling Cormoran Strike detective book series, and will preview on August …read more!

This week has seen announcements of cast and ticket details for Cursed Child on Broadway, Jason Isaacs spoke on his role in Star Trek, sparking debate and Tom Felton shared moments of filming on his new movie, Whaling. We also raised our wands to the late Robert Hardy (Cornelius Fudge), who passed this week at 91 years of …read more!

Entertainment Weekly released a teaser for it’s new Star Trek-centric issue out last week, and it was not without some controversy! The report included a preview from their on-set visit in which Jason Isaacs, known to Potter fans as Lucius Malfoy, was introduced to Star Trek: Discovery’s interpretation of Gene Roddenberry’s science-based utopia after some improvisation gone awry. The scene unfolded as …read more!

Filming began on Tom Felton’s newest movie Whaling last Thursday, and cast photos have been shared from the set: ?: @wendi_mclendon_covey – Cast photo from #whaling : @DavidKoechner @tamminsursok #tomfelton! Can’t wait for you to see this bonkers movie! #actorslife #independentfilm #comedy #movie #actorslife #tomfelton A post shared by Tom Felton is ? (@tom_22_felton) on Jul 30, …read more!

Actor Robert Hardy, who played Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter films, has died aged 91. Hardy was a prolific British actor of both stage and screen, with many well-known and memorable roles under his belt before he joined the Potter franchise as weak and ambitious Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge. Ironically, he was perhaps …read more!

News recently broke that Jack Thorne – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child playwright – will be helping with re-writes on Star Wars: Episode IX. This process will see Thorne take Epsiode IX’s director Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s original script and offer ‘a fresh set of eyes’ before production begins. The Hollywood Reporter – the first to report on …read more!

Since the first report of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’s transfer across the pond to the Great White Way, fans have anxiously awaited news of the production moving forward–and that news has finally arrived! Cursed Child NYC tweeted a series of huge announcements earlier today regarding the Broadway cast and ticket sales. The first …read more!

Many of the West End’s most popular running shows banded together last week to support London mayor Sadiq Khan’s #LondonIsOpen campaign. The shows, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, created videos aimed at encouraging visitors to discover the magic of live theater. According to Broadway World, Khan also issued the following invitation: “Whether you’re looking for fringe …read more!

Richard Griffiths, the late English stage, film, and television actor, is best known to the Potter fandom as Harry’s intolerant muggle Uncle Vernon Dursley. On what would have been the actor’s 70th birthday, which by the way, he shared with Harry Potter, himself, and his creator, J.K. Rowling, let’s take a moment to look back …read more!