Jul 21, 2018
The Warner Bros. Theatrical Panel opened to spectacular effect Saturday afternoon at San Diego Comic Con 2018. As guests entered Hall H, they received custom wrist-bands inscribed with the Deathly Hallows insignia. Then, as the lights dimmed, curtains, which had completely covered the walls, drew back to reveal screens wrapping around the room. They encircle …read more!
Jul 21, 2018
The moment Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts fans have anxiously awaited has finally arrived–and Warner Bros. has delivered! Opening an epic theatrical panel featuring a full slate of highly-anticipated films, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald mesmerized the Comic Con audience with a new full-length trailer after teasing this moment for weeks. Yesterday a new …read more!
Jul 17, 2018
As San Diego Comic Con approaches and summer turns the mid-year corner, Warner Bros. is gearing up for the Nov. 16 release of the highly-anticipated wizarding sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. In the last week, we’ve seen an exclusive featurette on the upcoming film and exciting “sneak peek” images from Entertainment Weekly. We’ve …read more!
Jul 12, 2018
Today the UK’s Sky Cinema aired an all-too-brief, tantalising, exclusive sneak peek at Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald. The 4-minute featurette begins with Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston giving a quick recap, with footage, of the first Fantastic Beasts film. They explain how chaos ensued when magizoologist Newt Scamander shows up in New York with a …read more!
Jul 09, 2018
Perhaps the biggest theater news to be released in the last two weeks regards the further expansion of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child around the globe. Not one–but two!–new productions are planned to open over the next two years–the first in San Francisco, California in 2019 and the second in Hamburg, Germany in 2020! …read more!
Jul 08, 2018
This week in the Potterverse, Cursed Child announced a production opening in Germany in 2020, a first-edition copy of Philosopher‘s Stone sold for £56k, a special new Chocolate Frog Card made its debut at Universal Studios Orlando, Hogwarts Castle was nominated as the castle schoolchildren in the UK would most like to visit, J.K. Rowling made the Variety500 …read more!
May 13, 2018
This week in the Potterverse has not only seen us celebrate Teacher Appreciation week (with dedicated Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin Head of House appreciation posts), but we also reported on new additions to Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, voting opened for Broadway.com’s Audience Choice Awards, Scholastic announced their Harry Potter themed Summer Reading Challenge and Warner Bros Studio Tour London …read more!
Apr 29, 2018
It’s been another busy week in the Potterverse! We interviewed stars at the New York premiere of Cursed Child, and heard from J.K. Rowling on her hopes for the play (see more interviews with the golden trio here). After speaking to Fantastic Beasts star Jessica Williams at the premiere, her role in the film was revealed via Jo …read more!
Apr 25, 2018
The Fantastic Beasts cast appeared at CinemaCon yesterday as part of the Warner Bros. presentation, answering questions from MC Will Arnett and, to the surprise and delight of the audience, unveiling new footage from the upcoming Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald film! Warner Bros. is proud to present our class of 2018. #CinemaCon2018 A …read more!
Mar 15, 2018
The first official trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald released yesterday and hit us like a powerful Stunning Charm, sending shockwaves throughout the wizarding fandom. It included long-awaited glimpses of our favorite characters returned to action; newly-cast characters taking their place in the story; old and new scenes of import, such as the …read more!