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With the exhaustive, exhausting conclusion of the epic-length, eight-part Harry Potter film series more than a decade ago, Warner Bros., like every intellectual property-dependent studio before and since, found itself at a crossroads. How best to exploit the underlying source...

There will be five of these? Really?? Harry Potter without Harry Potter. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good Harry Potter tale as much as the next guy… Actually, I truthfully don’t. Having never read the books, and having...

In other franchise news, the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them debuted today. David Yeats, who directed the last four of the Harry Potter films, is back in the main chair, and he is joined in...

Next year will be the return of the Harry Potter universe in a big way: as if the kickoff of the new trilogy, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them (written by author J.K. Rowling herself, and directed by 4-time...

Variety is reporting that Inherit Vice actress Katherine Waterson has landed one of the lead female roles in J.K. Rowlings' Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. She will star in the Harry Potter spinoff movie opposite Eddie Redmayne who...

News began to pick up early yesterday (and rumored earlier than that really) that Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne was the man to take the lead in Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, a prequel to J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter...

Saw this again the other day and just have to say it is an incredibly moving finish to a film series that had a lot of hurdles to overcome, not the least of which was adapting multiple huge books into...

A chance to talk to Matthew Lewis aka Neville Longbottom was a chance to talk to cultural royalty. Through the course  of eight film he's grown up in front of us emerging as the unlikeliest of heroes in the worlds...

You're in or you're out. And in an age in which film franchises are constantly rebooting, and the origins of superheroes are endlessly explored, the intransigence of this particular series is refreshing. As with its immediate predecessors, Harry Potter and...