According to Entertainment Weekly, author J.K. Rowling will be expanding the story of Harry Potter beyond the page and the screen to the London stage when a new play titled “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” opens at the Palace Theatre on London’s West End next year.
Warner Bros. Pictures is returning to J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World with next year’s fantasy adventure Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first part of what is being eyed as a three-film expansion of the highly profitable Harry Potter universe. Already set to star Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston, the David Yates film is today, Variety reports, looking to cast Ezra Miller in a key role. Miller, who previously starred in director Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower, is also set to play the title role in Warner Bros. Pictures’ DC Comics adaptation, The Flash.
Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) will star opposite Eddie Redmayne in Warner Bros. Pictures’ much-anticipated adventure Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World. The announcement was made today by Greg Silverman, President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.
Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them doesn’t arrive until November 2016, but we today got our potential first look at the film’s official title treatment at a Licensing Expo, where several social media users spotted a poster with the film’s title, accompanied with the line “From JK Rowling’s Wizarding World”.
It’s official! Academy Award-winning actor Eddie Redmayne has been cast as Newt Scamander in Warner Bros. Pictures’ much-anticipated wizarding world adventure Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The announcement was made today by Greg Silverman, President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production, Warner Bros. Pictures.
TheWrap brings word that Warner Bros. Pictures has narrowed down their top choices for several key roles in the upcoming trilogy, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Eddie Redmayne, who just won the Best Actor Oscar for The Theory of Everything, is the frontrunner to play Newt Scamander in Warner Bros. Pictures’ anticipated “Harry Potter” spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, reports Variety. “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is making her screenwriting debut on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
J.K. Rowling has completed the script for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the first film in Warner Bros. Pictures’ upcoming trilogy, producer David Heyman told The Telegraph.
Warner Bros. made headlines today with a series of major announcements concerning their upcoming slate of blockbusters.
At Time Warner Investor Day on Wednesday morning, Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara announced that David Yates will direct J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, due for release in November 2016!
Variety reports that four-time Harry Potter director David Yates has signed on to direct Warner Bros. Pictures’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them! The big screen return to J.K. Rowling’s world hits theaters November 18, 2016.
Warner Bros. Pictures has now mapped out a massive schedule of DC Comics properties!
Leavesden Studios is preparing to dive back into the world of witchcraft and wizardry after it was announced that the forthcoming Harry Potter spin-off film will be shot there. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be filmed at the Warner Bros complex in Hertfordshire, where all the original Harry Potter films were made.
Although it sounded last week like Gravity and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban helmer Alfonso Cuaron was planning on returning to the Wizarding World for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Global Post today has an update straight from Cuaron himself who now reveals that he’ll be passing on the director’s chair this time around.
We learned last week that Warner Bros. Pictures had set a November 18, 2016 release date for “Harry Potter” spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, and now comes word via Nikki Finke that Gravity helmer Alfonso Cuaron is “deep in talks” to direct the film! Cuaron also previously directed Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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