Accio shelf space. The owl that presides over the Great Hall has been cast in gold and put to work — and right now it’s only landing on one storefront. The official Harry Potter Shop Japan has added the Dumbledore’s Lectern Owl Wand Stand to its wand range, a resin display piece modeled on the…
Mischief managed, for 15 years at least. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has climbed past Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 on the all-time worldwide box office chart, ending the Potter finale’s long run as the franchise’s highest earner sitting above a Homer adaptation. The theatrical poster for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, shot…
Christmas at Hogwarts is arriving a few months early this year — and it comes with a $599 Nagini mirror, a $429 Hedwig beauty cart and a chess set that would make Ron Weasley nervous. Pottery Barn Teen has rolled out the biggest wave of new Harry Potter pieces its collaboration has seen in years:…
Your letter has arrived, and this time it came with a website attached. HarryPotter.com has given the HBO Harry Potter series a permanent home of its own at harrypotter.com/series, a dedicated hub sitting in the main navigation alongside Books, Films and Portkey Games rather than buried under a news tag. And the page carries a…
Mile High Muggles, your acceptance letter has arrived. “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” is open at 417 S. Broadway in Denver, giving visitors the chance to get up close to authentic movie props, original costumes, and interactive experiences inspired by the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. After stops that have taken the touring show around…
The trolley witch has officially parked in the baking aisle. After the Butterbeer duo kicked things off this spring, McCormick’s full official Harry Potter collection has now launched — six themed finishing sugars plus a vanilla extract, hitting store shelves this week. It’s all part of the brand’s partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer…
Grab your ticket from Platform 9¾ — the whole saga is going back to the big screen. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” all eight Harry Potter films are returning to theaters for a limited run from August 27 to September 3 as part of Warner Bros.’ annual Back…
Keep your wand at the ready — the darker side of magic is reclaiming the Wizarding World this fall, on both coasts. Universal has announced that “Dark Arts at Hogwarts Castle” will return to Hogsmeade at Universal Islands of Adventure on select nights from September 5 through November 1, 2026 — the nighttime show’s first…
The Hogwarts professors did, in fact, have a life after curfew — and Kenneth Branagh was there for one of the good ones. Speaking at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Branagh — Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets — described a night at a hotel outside Cheltenham during the production’s shoot…
Somewhere in a timeline we didn’t get, Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs had their own show. Knight Edge Media published an exclusive report on August 17 claiming that Warner Bros. had a live-action Marauders series in development at HBO Max in the early 2020s — a 1970s-set story following James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin…
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