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A Harry Potter reboot is getting closer. Warner Bros. Discovery is reportedly close to finishing a deal to take another swing at the book-turned-blockbuster. Bloomberg writes that the company is in talks to turn the franchise into a TV series in the near future. Citing “two people with knowledge of the matter,” the outlet writes that each individual season […]
A pair of Russian pranksters managed to pull a fast one on J.K. Rowling. As pointed out by The Hollywood Reporter, notorious comedy duo Vovan and Lexus recently tricked the Harry Potter author into believing she was on a Zoom call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The comedians—real names Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, respectively—impersonated the European leader while firing off questions […]
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore just topped the box office, but opened with some low numbers that even a spell couldn’t fix. The film, the third of the Harry Potter prequels, opened with a $43 million debut, NBC News reports. Despite topping the box office, it fell way short of the $74 million opening of 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and […]
In a recent episode of his The Problem podcast, comedian Jon Stewart broached the topic of antisemitic tropes in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Amid his comments, which stem from a December 2021 episode but have since gone viral thanks to the tweet below, the former Daily Show host and current Apple TV+ personality spoke with his […]
Katie Leung has opened up about her time playing Cho Chang in the Harry Potter films, saying publicists asked her to deny that she received racist abuse from fans. Appearing on an episode of the Chinese Chippy Girl podcast this week, Leung said she read racist messages from fans when her casting in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was […]
Rupert Grint says his Harry Potter experience wasn’t always magical. The 32-year-old actor opened up about his decades-long role during a recent interview on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast. Grint was just 12 when he took on the role of wizard Ron Weasley—a character he would play throughout the franchise’s run, which delivered a total of […]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has done a lot to divide her fanbase with her controversial comments on trans women and men as of late. Even the cast of the film series based on her books have turned their back on her, with Harry Potter himself Daniel Radcliffe apologizing for Rowling’s comments. Now Deadline reports that Rowling has […]
J.K. Rowling unfollowed Stephen King and deleted her tweet praising him after he declared that “Trans women are women” on Twitter, per Uproxx. On Sunday, Rowling posted a series of tweets addressing the apology from Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle over his remarks in response to her essay where she attempted to clarify her stance on transgender rights. In one of her […]
J.K. Rowling has found herself in hot water for yet again doing something that makes her look transphobic. The Harry Potter author made a highly questionable and seemingly anti-trans tweet on Saturday in response to an opinion editorial article discussing a “more equal post-COVID-19 world for people who menstruate.” “‘People who menstruate.’ I’m sure there used to be a […]
Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has once again faced accusations of transphobia after she rushed to the defense of a “gender critical” woman fired for transphobic tweets. 45-year-old tax expert Maya Forstater was fired from her job after she questioned the British government’s plans to allow people to self-identify their gender. The Central London Employment Tribunal upheld the […]
