Harry Potter News

LeakyCon Announces “Behind the Magic” Special Guests!

Jun 09, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Conventions, Fan Events, Fans, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Leaky, LeakyCon, Movies, News

Yesterday, LeakyCon announced two more exciting guests coming to the convention in August! Pierre Bohanna (Head Prop Maker) and Jim Cornish (Storyboarder) from the Harry Potter films will attend LeakyCon to give guests an insight into the making of the films! Bohanna has worked on The Dark Knight and Star Wars: Episode VII  – The Force Awakens, so …read more!

‘Harry Potter’ Prints and Posters Now Available to UK Fans Through Pottermore!

Jun 07, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Cover Art, Cover Artists, Exclusives, Fans, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Movie Art, News, Pottermore, Products, Warner Bros.

Exciting news continues to roll in from Pottermore this week. Yesterday, Leaky reported the Pottermore casting call announcement that Warner Bros. is seeking five young actors for teen versions of major characters in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts installment! Today, Pottermore released news of an exclusive Pottermore Art Collection of prints and posters now available to UK …read more!

Christmas is Coming to Wizarding World Hollywood!

Jun 06, 2017

Posted by: Lainey Ruffner

Fans, Fun, Interactive, Misc, News, Theme Park, Wizarding World of Harry Potter Hollywood, WIzarding World of Harry Potter Orlando

Universal Studios Hollywood is bringing a new Christmas experience to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter this November! With the announcement back in April of the Christmas festivities coming to Universal Studios Orlando, we are excited to now know that fans on both coasts will get to experience this Christmas magic. Along with the already snow-topped …read more!

‘Fantastic Beasts’ Open Casting Call For Young Actors!

Jun 06, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Casting, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Films, Movies, News

Know of any young actors who’d love the chance to star in Fantastic Beasts? Today’s their lucky day! Pottermore just announced that Warner Bros are holding open calls for not one, but FIVE actors to join the cast! Fantastic Beasts is looking for five young actors! Find out more about the Warner Bros. open casting call: …read more!

Happy Birthday to Jason Isaacs: Live Long and Prosper Captain

Jun 06, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Actor Birthdays, Conventions, Events, Exclusives, Fan Events, Fandom, Isaacs, News, Television Programmes

Jason Isaacs, who celebrates his 54th birthday today, has become a pop culture icon of late between his performance as NDE-obsessed scientist Dr. Hunter Hap in the Netflix sci-fi drama The OA, to his upcoming role as Captain Lorca in the first CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery and of course as Harry Potter …read more!

Gareth Fry Wins Drama Desk Award!

Jun 05, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Broadway, Crew Interviews, Gareth Fry, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Honors/Awards, Interviews, News, Theater

Cursed Child sound designer Gareth Fry, along with Pete Malkin, picked up the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play for their work on The Encounter. The awards are touted as the “only major New York theater honors for which productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway compete against each other in the same category,” …read more!

Happy Birthday, Draco Malfoy!

Jun 05, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Character Birthdays, Felton, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Philosophers / Sorcerers Stone, J.K. Rowling, News

Today we celebrate Draco Malfoy’s 37th birthday. Any walk down memory lane with the pure-blood wizarding heir is bound to conjure mixed feelings, but this loyal and ambitious Slytherin is, nonetheless, an integral player in the Harry Potter story and one whose tangential and personal arc is well worth revisiting! Draco grew up idolizing his father, Lucius, …read more!

UPDATE: Photos From House of MinaLima Anniversary: New Prints & Galley Redesign

Jun 05, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Art, MinaLima, Movie Art, News

It’s officially been one year since the opening of the wildly impressive House of MinaLima in London’s Soho, and we can’t believe how time has flown! Perhaps you’ve visited the four-storey gallery and shop when going to see Cursed Child, or maybe you’ve dedicated your time in London especially to gazing in awe at their beautiful artwork. Whatever the case, …read more!

‘Harry Potter’ & ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Actor Round-Up: Interviews, Trailers & Announcements

Jun 04, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Branagh, Broadbent, Davis, Davis Interviews, Depp, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Films, Gambon, Gleeson, Harry Potter Round-Up, Interviews, Kravitz, Kravitz Interviews, McCrory, McCrory Interviews, Movies, News, Oldman, Round-Up, Staunton, Tennant, Thewlis, Thewlis Interviews, Trailers, Walters, Waterson, Watson, Watson Interviews

This week has seen the start of the Wizarding World Book Club by Pottermore and Potter Watch by LeakyCon, as well as the exciting release of the 20th Anniversary Hogwarts House editions of Harry Potter.  We were granted a first look at the new nighttime show at the Wizarding World in Universal Studios Hollywood, given updates on Fantastic …read more!

Tom Felton Stars as Twin in Official ‘Feed’ Trailer

Jun 03, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Felton, Films, News

Tom Felton will star in Pretty Little Liars lead Troian Bellisario’s first feature film, Feed (first announced in 2015).   He will star as Matthew, the 18-year-old twin of Bellisario’s character, Olivia Grey. Tragedy tears the twins apart as they prepare for their last year at school, throwing Olivia’s life into turmoil and seeing Felton haunt her …read more!



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