Exactly 20 years ago, J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” hit bookshelves, marking the birth of a massive franchise, both in literature and on the big screen. The films are lauded…
Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the publication of J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,” and both Facebook and Google decided to add some magic to the day and celebrate…
Lindsay Lohan ("Mean Girls") has come on board the second season of “Sick Note,” the upcoming British comedy series that also stars Rupert Grint (“Harry Potter”), Nick Frost (“Paul”), and Don Johnson…
Oscar-nominated "Harry Potter" makeup and creature-effects wizard Nick Dudman is set to bring his blockbuster artistry to Italian director Matteo Garrone's new live-action "Pinocchio," which HanWay…
“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling and West Midlands Police in England are turning to fans to help them locate an untitled prequel story that was stolen. In 2008, Rowling wrote an 800-word manuscript…
Warner Bros. took the top spot on the national home video sales charts for the week ended April 2 with "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the fantasy spinoff of the "Harry Potter" series that…
Ian McKellen — aka Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” — almost played another famed, fictional wizard as well. McKellen was evidently approached to take over as Albus Dumbledore in “Harry Potter”…
Hogwarts fans can finally forgive the Academy. The “Harry Potter” franchise, with one of the most stubborn losing streaks in the telecast’s history — 12 nominations over eight prior movies — finally…
Prior to 1999, the British Academy Film and Television Awards were seen as the poor, but perfectly respectable, country cousin of their high-wattage American brethren. There were a number of reasons…
No actor was more perfectly named than John Hurt. It's not as if the people he played were always in pain (though more often than not, they were). Yet he was graced with a seductively layered and…
TOKYO – Warner's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" bowed at number one in the Japanese box office for the Nov. 26-27 weekend. But its score was weaker than the last "Harry Potter" film…
