Most of us grew up watching Disney’s animated classics. We all had our favorites. We fell in love with the story or the setting or the characters. And before we ever heard of Harry Potter’s Hermione Granger, Emma Watson fell in love with Belle. Disney released video of Watson expounding on her childhood love for Beauty and the Beast, …read more!

Jason Isaacs is most well known in the Harry Potter fandom for his chilling portrayal of the pureblood patriarch, Lucius Malfoy. He played Malfoy over the course of five films, seeing the character through highs and lows, a power player and a pariah. In Chamber of Secrets, his disgust for muggles and muggle-friendly wizarding families, particularly the …read more!

Author and Twitter queen J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling ) has grown increasingly active on Twitter, and this week has been particularly busy on her feed. From political posts, to Fantastic Beasts related tidbits, to Hermione Granger and Cormoran Strike. She’s popular for her outspokenness about all topics political, her charities, the Potter-verse and everything in-between. Fantastic Beasts kept cropping …read more!

My Name is Emily, the debut-feature written and directed by Simon Fitzmaurice and starring Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch, is a ‘life-affirming’ story which just revealed a new trailer for its upcoming theatrical release in the U.S.! The film also stars Michael Smiley (The Lobster, Kill List) and newcomer George Webster (City of Dreamers, Blood Moon). Evanna stars as the eponymous Emily, who …read more!

Brendan Gleeson is best known to Harry Potter fans as the imposing and eccentric dark-wizard catcher, auror Mad-Eye Moody. In his latest film, Live By Night, he plays another complex character on the hunt–the hunt for those who find themselves on the wrong side of the law of the land. Gleeson is Thomas Coughlin, a Boston-Irish cop …read more!

We previously reported on Rupert Grint’s starring role in Sony’s TV adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s 2000 classic, Snatch, and we now bring you the very first trailer for the 10-part series! Grint’s character Charlie Cavendish has been described as a “dynamic, frustratingly chaotic, and utterly posh con man” who is set up to be carrying out a heist …read more!

A year ago today, beloved and renowned actor Alan Rickman sadly passed away at age 69. After the initial shock, sadness and despair, we’ve learned to honour Alan by remembering the legacy he leaves behind with his work, and the brilliance and humble, good-humoured nature he brought with his presence. The talent he portrayed in …read more!

This spring Emma Watson, known as Hermione Granger and, more recently, Belle of Beauty and the Beast fame, discovers there is more than one kind of imprisonment. But unlike her stay in the Beast’s castle, it doesn’t require walls. In fact, it breaks them all. The tagline for Watson’s new film, The Circle, is “Knowing is good. …read more!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them achieved a huge milestone today as it crossed the $800 million mark in the worldwide box office. This, along with numerous positive reviews, makes the film an overwhelming success. Warner Brothers’ production budget for the film was $180 million, which is very high as far as the average film goes, but with …read more!

The Costume Designers Guild recognized Award-winning costume designer, Colleen Atwood, for creating the exquisite 1920s New York City fashion of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Atwood is nominated twice this year in the “Excellence in Fantasy Film” category for her work on Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Fantastic Beasts. Atwood has been nominated …read more!