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…

President Donald Trump’s see-it-to-believe-it press conference has drawn immediate, near-stunned reaction from Hollywood and the Beltway. Starting things off: Alec Baldwin, who says the president looks “like he’s gonna blow a rod.” Deadline will update… Here’s a sample: This guy is so wired in front of the press…

Piers Morgan is either still smarting or still giddy from his run-in with Jim Jefferies on Friday’s Real Time With Bill Maher, now adding Meryl Streep to his ever-growing roster of combatants in the feud’s wake. “Meryl Streep abusing President Trump again?,” Morgan tweeted today, apparently a response to the actress…

Refresh for latest… With the world's entertainment industry being typically left-leaning, it may come as no surprise that the international industry reacted in awe after Donald Trump's stun win early on Wednesday morning. Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling urged her Twitter followers to continue to "challenge racism…

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Depp is joining the cast of Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, playing a co-starring role in the sequel which David Yates will direct early next year with Eddie Redmayne again in the lead role of Newt Scamander. I’ve confirmed this, but no one is saying exactly what role that Depp will play…