In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly can be found a short anecdote written by Kate Winslet about her former co-star, Alan Rickman. As many may already know, Alan Rickman passed away January 14, 2016. With the anniversary of his death quickly approaching, Kate Winslet’s story reminds us all of the wonderful man Alan was. “He …read more!

It’s round two for PotterCast and Fantastic Beasts! The show picks up where it left off and dives back in with your submitted questions and theories to guide them. If you hadn’t noticed, Harry Potter has come back big time in 2016 with Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Child. We’ve been gifted with new stories to get excited about, …read more!

For the entire Harry Potter fandom, which refuses to ever lose hope and fizzle out, 2016 has been an incredibly fulfilling year. When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two opened in theaters five and a half years ago, it was a bittersweet moment for all of us. To see a series most of us grew up with, whose …read more!

As Harry Potter aficionados know, the sixth installment in the series is “riddled” with details of Voldemort’s family history. A few weeks ago J.K. Rowling and creator of the blockbuster musical Hamilton, Lin Manuel Miranda, exchanged tweets about their respective fondness for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince: HBP is my favorite PRECISELY because …read more!

*UPDATE: the official Beauty and the Beast Facebook page has released a clearer and longer version of ‘Something There’, sung by Emma Watson – listen at the end of this article!* We all know that the amazing Emma Watson will be starring as Belle in the upcoming Disney film Beauty and the Beast, yet one thing …read more!

Emma Watson is as ambitious and devoted to learning as her Harry Potter counterpart Hermione Granger, and we love her all the more for her own authenticity and voracious appetite for literature. With the enthusiasm of Hermione for S.P.E.W., Watson carried her love for reading into the creation of a public book club, Our Shared Shelf, …read more!

Disney has announced that it will release the soundtrack for its live action remake of Beauty and the Beast, on the same day the film arrives in theatres (17th March, 2017). Whilst this two disc edition is exciting enough, another edition of the soundtrack, a two-CD deluxe version with an exclusive 12″x 12″ lithograph will be available and ready for …read more!

Today (28th December) we wish a very happy birthday to our marvellous Professor McGonagall, Dame Maggie Smith. Her wondrous acting career spans over six decades, and has seen Smith grace the stage, television and big screen! Known to us as McGonagall, she’s known to many others as Violet Crawley (Downton Abbey). She is one of six actresses …read more!

Evanna Lynch and Bonnie Wright – as Lumos ambassadors – visited Haiti in July to see the amazing work the charity was doing, and to spread the word about children needing families, not orphanages. Evanna introduces the short video, published on Lumos’s Twitter feed, explaining that her and Bonnie were in Haiti to visit the …read more!

Before the creatures of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them were ready for the silver screen, teams of digital artists had to work their own behind-the-scenes magic. They were faced with the creative challenge of bringing literal figments of the imagination to life. This process began in an unexpected place. When the film studio communicated the …read more!