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Dame Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon & More Join ‘Hogwarts Mystery’ & Release Date Announced!

Apr 05, 2018

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Davis, Fan Events, Fun, Fun - Games, Gambon, HP Cast, Interviews, News, Products, Smith, Smith Interviews, Video Games, Warner Bros.

As if Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery wasn’t exciting enough, one of our questions from A Celebration of Harry Potter was finally answered – multiple actors from the Harry Potter films will provide voiceovers for the free-to-play game! Taking place years before Harry’s arrival at Hogwarts (in the 1980s, so you’ll be joined by Tonks and Charlie Weasley …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Actors Joined #MarchForOurLives, Jessica Williams Addresses ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’ Apparition Controversy and More!

Mar 25, 2018

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Branagh, Conventions, Davis, Depp, Events, Fandom, Fans, Fantastic Beasts, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Films, Fun, Gambon, Harry Potter Round-Up, Heyman, Honors/Awards, HP Cast, Isaacs, J.K. Rowling, Leung, Lynch, Miller, Movies, News, Noma Dumezweni, Oldman, Potter News, Producers, Round-Up, Sakurai, Sonia Friedman, Staunton, Sudol, Television Programmes, Tennant, Trailers, Walters, Watson

It’s been an incredibly busy week in the Harry Potter fandom–not that that’s unusual! We celebrated the birthdays of David Thewlis and Gary Oldman, and heard Dan Fogler talk Fantastic Beasts, Brooklyn Gladiator and LeakyCon in his podcast. Where books are concerned, J.K. Rowling’s Crimes of Grindelwald screenplay became available for pre-order, and the final …read more!

History of Magic Documentary Gets US Air Date

Mar 23, 2018

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Bloomsbury, Companion Books, Davis, J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay, Lynch, News, Products, Staunton, Television Programmes, Thewlis, Videos, Williams

US Potter fans will finally have the opportunity to explore the magic behind the Wizarding World when the BBC documentary of the British Library’s Harry Potter: A History of Magic Exhibition airs on The CW next month. The hour-long program, which originally aired in the the UK soon after the opening of the exhibition last fall, …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Derek Riddell on ‘Crimes of Grindelwald’ Death Eater Links, ‘Harry Potter’ Cast Event Appearances & More!

Mar 02, 2018

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Broadbent, Davis, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Gleeson, Harry Potter Round-Up, Heyman, HP Cast, Ianevski, Leung, News, Pattinson, Round-Up, Tennant, Thewlis, Thompson, Watson, Wright

This week in Potter we’ve seen a new trailer from mobile game Hogwarts Mystery, the British Library’s Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition transition online to Google Arts, interviews with cast and crew after the debut of Career of Evil on BBC One, news on the Nighttime Lights at Hogwarts at Universal Studios Hollywood and we reported on Matthew …read more!

Happy Birthday, Warwick Davis!

Feb 03, 2018

Posted by: Dawn Johnson

Actor Birthdays, BigNews, Birthdays, Davis, Fandom, Fans, Films, Fun, HP Cast, Movies, News, Potter News, Producers, Television Programmes

Today we celebrate Warwick Davis’ 48th birthday–and what a splendid 48 years it’s been! Within the Harry Potter fandom Davis is most well-known for playing multiple characters in the wizarding world: a Goblin bank teller at Gringotts, Professor Filius Flitwick and, later, the duplicitous goblin Griphook. He played each with appropriate humor, seriousness and aplomb–as …read more!

2018 Oscar Nominations Have Arrived!

Jan 23, 2018

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Branagh, Davis, Film Awards, Films, Gambon, Gleeson, Honors/Awards, McCrory, News, Oldman, Tennant, Watson, Williams

The 2018 Academy Award nominations were announced earlier today and considering the abundance of talent related to the Wizarding World, it’s no surprise that this year’s list of Oscar nominees is loaded with Potter alumni. Many of these Oscar hopefuls have been recognized throughout the awards season, including Gary Oldman, best known to Potter fans …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Rupert Grint Lands ‘Snatch’ Season 2, National Film Award Nominations, Alison Sudol Named Antarctic Ambassador & More!

Jan 20, 2018

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Bradley, Branagh, Cleese, Cormoran Strike TV Series, Davis, Fantastic Beasts Round-Up, Fogler, Gleeson, Grint, Harry Potter Round-Up, HP Cast, Law, News, Oldman, Radcliffe, Redmayne, Round-Up, Spall, Spall Interviews, Staunton, Sudol, Tennant, Walters, Watson

It’s been another busy week in the wizarding world! Rehearsals have started for Cursed Child on Broadway,  Scholastic announced 20th anniversary covers for Sorcerer’s Stone, HBO announced their Hogwarts House Challenges to celebrate all 8 Harry Potter films and Fantastic Beasts coming to the network, Universal Studios Japan revealed plans to update the Forbidden Journey ride, Waterstones Piccadilly shared …read more!

J.K. Rowling Continues to Work Her Magic in 2017: The Year in Review

Dec 31, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

19 Years Later, Anthony Boyle, Bloomsbury, Book Awards, Broadway, Celebration of Harry Potter, Colleen Atwood, Companion Books, Cormoran Strike series/Robert Galbraith, Cormoran Strike TV Series, Davis, Fantastic Beasts, Fantastic Beasts Movie, Felton, Film Awards, Games, Gareth Fry, Grint, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Harry Potter and the Philosophers / Sorcerers Stone, Harry, A History, Isaacs, J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, JKR Interviews, John Tiffany, Law, LeakyCon, Lethal White, Lewis, Lumos, Lynch, MinaLima, Neil Austin, News, Noma Dumezweni, Oldman, Phelps, Pottermore, Products, Radcliffe, Sam Clemmett, Scholastic, Studio Tour, Television Programmes, Theater, Theme Park, Thewlis, Video Games, Warner Bros., Watson, West End, WIzarding World of Harry Potter Orlando, Wright

Obvious to anyone who takes a look at 2017 in the rearview mirror is the fact that Harry Potter and his world continue to remain alive and well today, twenty years after J.K. Rowling first put his story down on paper. His devoted followers assumed they were parting company with the boy wizard when the …read more!

Weekly Round-Up: Daniel Radcliffe Producing ‘Circus Kid’, An Emotional ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas Special & More!

Dec 10, 2017

Posted by: Emma Pocock

Actor Interviews, Bradley, Bradley Interviews, Branagh, Broadbent, Burke, Cormoran Strike TV Series, Davis, Gleeson, Harry Potter Round-Up, HP Cast, Hurt, Interviews, Jack Thorne, Kravitz, News, Oldman, Pattinson, Pattinson Interviews, Radcliffe, Round-Up, Tennant, Thewlis, Thompson, Walters, Watson, Wright

This week has seen first look photos and filming wraps from Crimes of Grindelwald, as well as statements from Warner Bros and J.K. Rowling herself on Johnny Depp’s involvement in the film. Bloomsbury also announced that the theme for Harry Potter Book Night 2018 will be ‘Fantastic Beasts’ – so get planning! Danielle Nicole released an exclusive Harry Potter handbag/accessory line – just …read more!

Matthew Lewis Brings Some Magic to the Midwest for Planet Comicon Kansas City

Dec 02, 2017

Posted by: Kim McChesney

Celebration of Harry Potter, Conventions, Davis, Events, Fandom, Fans, Felton, Isaacs, Lewis, News, Television Programmes

Matthew Lewis, best known to Potter fans as the actor who played Neville Longbottom in the films, is set to join a full schedule of special guests from all walks of popular culture at Planet Comicon Kansas City. There’s no doubt that Lewis’s role as Neville, the clumsy little Gryffindor who grew into a valiant yet …read more!



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