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!

Today marks J.K. Rowling’s 52nd birthday! This year, 20 years after the publication of the very first Harry Potter book and 10 years after the publication of Deathly Hallows, what better time to thank her for all the memories, friendships, discussions, experiences and changes she’s created across the world. Though often regarded as intensely private, …read more!

In recent years, the fandom has often downplayed Harry Potter’s strengths in favor of analyzing his flaws. Eventually, we also downplayed his contribution to the victory over Voldemort in favor of praising his friends. Somehow, the trend gave rise to the sentiment that hailing Harry as the hero of the story diminished the roles of Ron and …read more!

Neville could quip that he’s the boy who LOL’d.  He lacked both confidence and coordination when he went to Hogwarts but advanced in both skill and self-esteem to the point of having a crucial leadership position, and playing key practical and symbolic roles in the defeat of Voldemort. Fans of the films often note admiringly that puberty was kind to …read more!

This week in the world of Potter and Fantastic Beasts, we’ve announced Tom Felton’s involvement in narrating Roald Dahl audiobooks, updates on alumni theater contributions, a new thrill ride set for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando, and three (1/2/3) articles summarising the action at San Diego Comic-Con. Pottermore also announced the release of an animated …read more!