Mar 12, 2018
It’s official: the trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will drop tomorrow, March 13th, and we could not be more excited! Warner Bros are encouraging fans everywhere to share photos with their #WandsReady on social media, or use the photo uploader on FantasticBeasts.com to make a personalized video to share. Here’s Leaky’s #WandsReady photo from on …read more!
Mar 11, 2018
“He didn’t realize that love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark.” ~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Today, we celebrate mothers of the UK, and in doing so, we also honor the mothers of our favorite book series, Harry Potter, created by literary genius J.K. Rowling. As a mother …read more!
Mar 10, 2018
“I am sorry too… Sorry I will never know him… but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand.“ Today, we celebrate the birthday of Remus Lupin, one of the more tragic characters of J.K. Rowling’s invention. It’s important to acknowledge and remember this, the pain of his journey, because it …read more!
Mar 10, 2018
Would you like to be one of the very first to see Harry Potter and Cursed Child on Broadway? According to the play’s social media channels, then this is your lucky day if you can get on your broom, find your portkey, or disapparate as soon as possible to New York’s newly renovated Lyric Theatre! …read more!
Mar 10, 2018
Previously we reported on Sport Relief’s upcoming Hogwarts League event, rallying Potter fans to help the nation achieve one billion steps per day from March 17th-23rd to raise money for charity. Of course, there’s the added bonus of being able to help your Hogwarts house win the league! Participants can sign up to their Hogwarts house, and track live leaderboards within the …read more!
Mar 09, 2018
It’s been another week of big updates, as Gary Oldman and Alexandre Desplat took home Academy Awards, Cursed Child Broadway opened its first Friday Forty today, and tickets to an exclusive Quidditch Listening Event went up for grabs. We also celebrated International Women’s Day across our social media channels, so head to Leaky’s Twitter, Instagram …read more!
Mar 07, 2018
In celebration of J.K. Rowling’s new audiobook Quidditch Through The Ages launch, Standard and Stylist announced earlier today that they have teamed up with Pottermore and Audible to offer readers and fans the chance to win tickets to an exclusive listening event! According to The Evening Standard, the event will take place at LSO St. Luke’s in London at 7pm …read more!
Mar 07, 2018
This has been a busy and exciting week in theater, seeing the release of the Olivier Awards nominations, which tapped more than one charmed and talented Harry Potter alum for the honor. Big news for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child also continued to dominate social media sites for theater on both sides of the …read more!
Mar 05, 2018
Last night the 90th annual Academy Awards took place, and after receiving awards at festivals as well as the Golden Globes and BAFTAs, and upon predictions of Oscar wins, Gary Oldman (Harry Potter‘s Sirius Black) took home the Oscar for Best Actor for his leading role as Churchill in Darkest Hour. After a career spanning four decades, this is Oldman’s first …read more!
Mar 03, 2018
Today, we celebrate the birthday of Katherine Waterston, who began working in the television and film industries over a decade ago, but truly broke onto the scene in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them as the indefatigable Tina Goldstein. She befuddled us as a stodgy ex-auror determined to nab Newt Scamander for rule-breaking, then …read more!