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J.K. Rowling has announced plans to serialize her new book, The Ickabog, for free on the internet through July. In a blog post and corresponding Twitter thread on Tuesday, she emphasized the book is a stand-alone fairy tale, unrelated to the Harry Potter series. Rowling also said she will donate royalties from the…

Daniel Radcliffe is picking up his wand again and returning to the world that catapulted him to stardom by reading the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as part of a Wizarding World lockdown initiative. Radcliffe has been joined by a cast of narrators, including Fantastic Beasts star Eddie…

Editor's Note: Don Winslow has spent the week writing a series of columns on his adventures in Hollywood for Deadline, even as he navigated the launch of his new William Morrow novella collection Broken with a virtual book tour. The response to these columns — some of the best writing we’ve seen on Deadline — has been …

J.K. Rowling revealed Monday she has fully recovered after experiencing symptoms of coronavirus over the past two weeks, though she had not been tested. She credits a breathing treatment for helping her and hopes it could help others as well. “Please watch this doc from Queens Hospital explain how to relieve…

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…