Harry Potter

• Biz
• 07.15.13 | 10:07AM PT

J.K. Rowling Publishes Crime Novel Under Pseudonym

By Diana Lodderhose

J.K. Rowling has been revealed as the secret author of crime novel "The Cuckoo's Calling," London's Sunday Times discovered this weekend. The "Harry Potter" scribe wrote the story about a war…

• Film
• 06.13.13 | 11:06AM PT

Emma Watson Plots 'Queen of the Tearling' Franchise With 'Harry Potter'…

By Justin Kroll

Warner Bros., Emma Watson and her “Harry Potter” producer David Heyman are teaming up on another adaptation with Watson attached to star in “The Queen of the Tearling.” The project is in development…

• Biz
• 04.24.13 | 11:20AM PT

Gibson Amphitheater Closure to Pave Way for Harry Potter

By Marc Graser

It's curtains for the Gibson Amphitheater, as the concert venue, active since 1972, is winding down to make room for Universal Studios Hollywood's Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Universal also…

SEE ALSO: L.A. County Gives Harry Potter Park the Greenlight

• Biz
• 04.23.13 | 03:06PM PT

L.A. County Gives Harry Potter Park the Greenlight

By Marc Graser

NBCUniversal has been given the greenlight to move forward with plans to build a Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park at Universal Studios Hollywood. Company will spend nearly $500 million to…

SEE ALSO: Universal Potter plan draws toasts

• Film
• 03.29.13 | 07:43AM PT

Versatile British Actor Richard Griffiths Dead at 65

By Shalini Dore

Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard's unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the "Harry Potter" movies, has died. He was 65.

• Film
• 07.06.11 | 04:15PM PT

Review: 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2'

By Justin Chang

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2" surges ahead with tremendous urgency, superb spectacle and powerful, even overwhelming emotion, only to falter with a hasty sendoff that seems to buckle…