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Miriam Margolyes is doubling down on her thoughts that adult Harry Potter fans should move on from stanning the film and book series created by J.K. Rowling. After her initial opinion went viral, Margolyes booked another interview where she was asked about her divisive take amid the backlash she’s…

Miriam Margolyes has some opinions about Harry Potter fans who have continued to stan the J.K. Rowland-created world into their adulthood. In a recent interview, Margolyes opened up about her experience with fans of the wizarding world and mentioned she was concerned for them. “I worry about Harr…

A simmering, years-long row between J.K. Rowling and broadcaster India Willoughby has spilled over into a police complaint against the Harry Potter author over alleged transphobia. Willoughby, who has appeared on Celebrity Big Brother in the UK and co-hosted shows including Loose Women, said she had…

UPDATED with latest: At its Max streaming event in April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed a new era is coming for Harry Potter fans. The company announced a TV series based on all seven books about the boy wizard written by J.K. Rowling. See below for the most current answers to the most important…

EXCLUSIVE: And then there were three. As Deadline reported exclusively earlier this month, the field of writers in the running to adapt JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books into a live-action series for Max has been narrowed down to three finalists. We can now reveal their names — according to sources, they…

EXCLUSIVE: Things are heating up at Hogwarts. The Harry Potter television series is closer to naming its creative leader as Deadline understands that the shortlist is now down to three names. We hear that Succession writer Francesca Gardiner is now among the finalists to score the job of…

EXCLUSIVE: The Harry Potter television series is moving closer to fruition. In April, Warner Bros. Discovery revealed that a series, based on the classic wizarding world, would be coming to its streaming service Max. Deadline understands that things in Potterworld are now heating up with a…

Revered composer John Williams has walked back his retirement talk, saying of previous reports that he'd put down his baton for the final time, "I don't care much for grand pronunciamentos, statements that are firm and finished and surrounded by closed doors. If I made one without putting it in context…

EXCLUSIVE: JK Rowling has pocketed an £8.25M ($10.5M) paycheck after stage show Harry Potter And The Cursed Child proved to be a post-pandemic crowd pleaser. HPTP Holdings, the parent company for Rowling’s theatrical interests, paid out the dividend as productions of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child…

The trailer has dropped for David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, Sky and HBO’s Daniel Radcliffe-produced documentary about the former Harry Potter stuntman who had an accident on set and is paralyzed from the waist down. Radcliffe and Holmes grew incredibly close during their time working on the movies…

Fantastic Beasts filmmaker David Yates told Total Film that the Harry Potter spinoff feature franchise “is parked.” That’s a very similar message to what he told us back at TIFF, however, that was in regards to his involvement with the overall Harry Potter franchise. (Read, “It's been about 'Let's…

Daniel Radcliffe is exec producing a documentary about his former stunt double who was left paralyzed following an accident on the Harry Potter set. Sky and HBO Documentary Films are behind David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, the coming-of-age story of a prodigious teenage gymnast who formed an…