Over the last few days, Entertainment Weekly has leaked some enticing snippets from an exclusive interview with Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts executive producer David Heyman. The interview–featured in the issue on news stands today!–includes details about the highly-anticipated sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which fans around the world now know …read more!

Exciting new information surfaced this week, which seems to confirm that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2 will return to Hogwarts! In light of this, we can’t resist reviewing what we know about the movie so far–and speculating as best we can about the rest. Getting Back to Hogwarts: Leaky reported on some suspiciously coincidental …read more!

David Heyman, acclaimed British film producer and common denominator behind the production of all eight Harry Potter films, as well as the first and upcoming second of the Fantastic Beasts series, celebrates his 56th birthday today. Heyman’s importance to the film aspect of the Wizarding World cannot be overstated. He has been referred to over …read more!

Fiona Shaw, the talented Irish actress known to the Potter fandom as Harry’s Aunt Petunia Dursley, celebrates her 59th birthday today. Most fans are likely not fond of the stony and anxious matron who was continually cruel to our protagonist, but admittedly, Shaw’s portrayal of the character was brilliantly believable. Shaw herself has said that …read more!

Mike Newell,  acclaimed director of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, celebrates his 75th birthday today. Newell is a British director and producer of television and film who won the 1994 Best Director BAFTA for Four Weddings and a Funeral. Prior to his work in the Potterverse, Newell directed a number of other Hollywood …read more!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was met with overwhelming success at the box office in November. Many fans were left with a deep satisfaction, perhaps a sense of relief, and most overwhelmingly an insatiable (for now) hunger for more. The sequel to Fantastic Beasts is slated to release in 2018, and Warner Bros. is …read more!

Percival Graves – The man that 50 Shades forgot. One of the greater mysteries to come from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them concerns the mysterious man of MACUSA – Percival Graves. Upon our first viewing of the character, we learn that Graves is a symbol of authority, a man in high places with …read more!

Chris Columbus, director and executive producer of the first two Harry Potter films, is largely responsible for how the magic of the books were translated to the big silver screen. It is for this and his incredible work on many other films, that he was chosen to be the first recipient of the Robin Williams Award …read more!

David Heyman, the producer of all eight Harry Potter films as well as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, is developing a small screen adaption of the award-winning 1985 epic, Out of Africa according to The Hollywood Reporter here.  The film version of Out of Africa, which starred Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, won seven …read more!

A new special effects video demonstrating the behind the scenes creation of many of the incredible beasts from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was recently released by Framestore on YouTube. Framestore, the special effects company that also worked on the Harry Potter films, breaks down the special effects they used to create the …read more!