This week has seen interviews with Robert Pattinson, the cast of Strike (which also announced its release date and debuted its trailer), new projects from Emma Thompson and David Tennant, wins from Emma Watson at the Teen Choice Awards and an exciting competition from Lumos to meet the cast of Fantastic Beasts on set! In this week’s round-up we …read more!

This week has seen been news in the Potter world as production began on the Fantastic Beasts sequel, and we prepare for an interview on CNN with J.K. Rowling on Monday. Our weekly round-up brings news from Evanna Lynch’s iAnimal campaign and a Disco Pigs interview and new promos from Toby Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon, Jason Isaacs and David Bradley. …read more!

This week in wizarding world news we’ve seen an open casting call for young actors to star in scenes of the next Fantastic Beasts, Christmas celebrations announced at the Wizarding World in Universal Studios Hollywood, Pottermore released some beautiful prints and artwork on their website for UK visitors, “Behind the Magic” special guests were announced at LeakyCon and we heard …read more!

We’ve had so much news to round-up this week that we’ve had to bring it to you in two parts! The older brigade of Potter actors are busy as always on stage, and screen, seeing collaborations between alumni on new projects, exciting announcements for Doctor Who and Downton Abbey fans! In a quick crew news update, Nick Dudman (make-up and …read more!

The past week has seen the launch of the Wizarding World in Japan’s Expecto Patronum night show, news on the Potter trio’s latest projects, curious updates from James and Oliver Phelps, Warwick Davis at the Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, an interview with Fantastic Beasts‘ Alison Sudol on art and nature and clips from Katherine Waterston’s Alien: …read more!

Harry Potter, Cursed Child and Fantastic Beasts actors are up to all sorts these days. Evanna Lynch has been busy showing fans how to make vegan recipes, Emma Watson successfully awed fans in recreating the role of a Disney princess, Rupert Grint’s in Snatch, Ezra Miller’s in a band, Noma Dumezweni reads poetry beautifully and there are plenty of convention …read more!

The actors who helped bring the Harry Potter series and Fantastic Beasts to the screen, and the writer who brought us Cursed Child will go back in time to tell the stories of a caveman, a prison and Ancient Greece in new films and exhibitions: Eddie Redmayne, who recently starred in the audiobook of the updated Fantastic Beasts and Where …read more!

Renowned British actor Timothy Spall, familiar to Harry Potter fans as the traitorous Peter Pettigrew, celebrates his 60th birthday today! Like many Harry Potter alums, Spall has been busy in the entertainment industry lately. Last year he won the Edgeware Outstanding Achievement Award at the UK Film Festival in London for his role in the …read more!

Harry Potter news abounds this week, including an update on the Love Actually reunion, coverage of the upcoming Leaky Con event, a look at the splendid Emma Watson’s premiere of Beauty and the Beast, an honor for Timothy Spall, more from David Tennant, and a potential new project for Gary Oldman. Leaky recently reported on the …read more!

There’s a lot of news this week surrounding Harry Potter alums for doing what stellar, seasoned actors do–act. Michael Gambon and Jim Broadbent are in talks to commit to a new film, a current Ralph Fiennes’ project gets a release date, and Timothy Spall is honored to be a presenter at an awards ceremony recognizing actors following in his …read more!