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Just two weeks before he’s scheduled to return as host of the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais has been caught up in a social media storm. The British comedian drew fire from the transgender community Saturday after he posted a series of tweets in response to J.K. Rowling's support of Maya Forstater, a researcher who was…

J.K. Rowling’s remarks supporting Maya Forstater, a British researcher fired for comments interpreted as anti-trans, have drawn condemnation from GLAAD. The Harry Potter author took to Twitter to speak out in support of Forstater, saying, “Dress however you please. Call yourself whatever you like. Sleep with any…

J.K. Rowling's crime drama Strike will return to U.S. cable network Cinemax and has added a slew of actors for its next iteration. Live By Night's Robert Glenister and Peaky Blinders' Natasha O'Keeffe have joined the series, which is based on Rowling's best-selling Cormoran Strike crime novels written under the…

EXCLUSIVE: Line of Duty and Crossing Lines director Susan Tully is to helm the next iteration of J.K. Rowling's BBC One crime series Strike. Tully, who has also directed episodes of Sky Atlantic's Tin Star, Amazon co-pro Britannia and BBC's autism drama The A Word, will direct Lethal White, the fourth season of the…

EXCLUSIVE: It has come to our understanding that Warner Bros. is pushing back the production start of the third Fantastic Beasts film. Originally, the J.K. Rowling-scripted movie was going to go before the cameras in July of this year, and now it’s looking like late autumn. It boils down to more prep time for part…

J.K Rowling's detective Cormoran Strike is heading back to the BBC with four new episodes of the crime drama. The series, which is known as Strike in the UK and ran as C.B. Strike on HBO's sister network Cinemax, is returning with Lethal White, a four-episode run based on the latest book written by Harry Potter…

The Tony Award-winning Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has set a West Coast premiere for fall 2019 at San Francisco’s Curran theatre. The staging will mark the fourth production of the play following London, New York and a planned engagement for Melbourne, Australia. The San Francisco production will mark a…

Like any magic worth an incantation, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, opening on Broadway at the Lyric Theater tonight, depends on unspoiled illusions, a delight in life’s wonders and the skills to present it all as if no one had ever even considered its combinations before, much less pulled them off. I won’t spoil…

The first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second film in the Harry Potter prequel series, has just been released, and Warner Bros. has mobilized an army of wizards to celebrate. The #WandsReady movement is described as a global social activation mobilizing Wizarding World fans, who are…

Cinemax will officially kick off its rebrand as a destination for fun, mostly action-packed, original programming February 2 with the return of the series that started the network's foray into originals six and a half years ago, Strike Back. It will be followed by thriller Rellik; crime drama C.B. Strike, based on J.K…

Salma Hayek’s fundraising efforts for the victims of Mexico’s recent disasters were approaching the $300,000 mark today, a day after the actress-producer launched the Crowdrise project for Unicef. “After the 1985 earthquake in Mexico City,” Hayek says in a video on the Crowdrise page, “I was evacuated from my…

Cormoran Strike, the BBC series based on the crime novels written by J.K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, has been renewed for a third installment, the BBC said today. The new installment will be broadcast on BBC One in 2018. Cinemax has acquired U.S. and Canadian rights to the show. Actors Tom Burke as…