Archive for January, 2017

Natalia Tena Shares Her Thoughts on Tonks’ Wardrobe

Jan 16, 2017

Posted by: Lainey Ruffner

Actor Interviews, Casting, Films, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Interviews, Media, Movies, News, OotP Film, Tena, Tena Interviews

Despite what she claims was a terrible audition, Natalia Tena landed the role of Nymphadora Tonks and embraced the unique traits of the quirky metamorphagus. Tena admits that she had never even read the Harry Potter books when she first tried out for the role of Tonks, so she had no clue what the hype …read more!

Zoe Kravitz Discusses her Role as Leta Lestrange

Jan 16, 2017

Posted by: Lainey Ruffner

Casting, Fantastic Beasts, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Films, Kravitz, Kravitz Interviews, Media, Movies, News, Yates Interviews

Zoe Kravitz makes such a quick appearance in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them that you may have actually missed her if you weren’t paying very close attention. She appears only for a moment in a photograph found among Newt’s possessions, as his former love interest, Leta Lestrange. Although her addition to the film was …read more!

Matt Lewis in Photos From ‘Into Film’ Event

Jan 16, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Events, HP Cast, Lewis, Lewis Interviews, News

Matt Lewis recently attended a Q&A session hosted by Into Film at the Pudsey Grangefield School in Leeds to speak about the film industry. As our favorite underdog turned hero, Neville Longbottom, in the Harry Potter series, Lewis knows a thing or two about succeeding against all odds. This personal experience as an actor gave …read more!

Bonnie Wright Will Appear at Salt Lake City Comic Con 2017

Jan 16, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Conventions, Events, Fandom, Fantastic Beasts, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Lumos, News, Wright

Bonnie Wright, better known to Harry Potter fans as, their favorite Mrs. Potter, Ginny Weasley, will be a guest at the FanX event at Salt Lake Comic Con, March 17th and 18th.   Wright has stayed extremely busy since she was seen in the final frames of the epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly …read more!

Emma Watson on Falling in Love With Belle

Jan 15, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Actor Interviews, Films, HP Cast, Interviews, Movie Art, Movies, News, Watson, Watson Interviews

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 Talks Life and Career: Look Out for Others and Look Out for Good Material

Jan 15, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Charity, Fantastic Beasts, Films, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, HP Cast, Interviews, Isaacs, Isaacs Interviews, Lumos, Movies, News

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!

J.K. Rowling: Tweets of the Week

Jan 15, 2017

Posted by: Ashley Kurtz

Cormoran Strike series/Robert Galbraith, Fantastic Beasts, FAQs, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Info, J.K. Rowling, JKR Interviews, Misc, News

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!

Evanna Lynch Stars in Trailer for U.S. Release of ‘My Name is Emily’

Jan 15, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Films, HP Cast, Lynch, Lynch Interviews, News

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 on Latest Film ‘Live By Night’

Jan 14, 2017

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Films, Gleeson, Gleeson Interviews, HP Cast, Interviews, Movies, News, Trailers

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!

Rupert Grint in First ‘Snatch’ Trailer

Jan 14, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Grint, News

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!



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