Meetings between Warner Brothers and JK Rowling can be filled with shouting and tears, it is claimed, as bosses at the entertainment giant brand the author their biggest asset.
The British writer, who wrote all seven volumes of the famous wizard series that sold millions and inspired eight blockbuster films, wields an immense amount of control over the series’ future. She sold the rights to Warner Bros. early in her career – but with clauses that give her considerable clout
The family of a 12-year-old Israeli Harry Potter fan who was murdered by Hamas terrorists have shared devastating footage of her singing with her mother just a month before she was killed.
Noya Dan – who was autistic – and her 80-year-old grandmother Carmela were among the hundreds of civilians killed by Hamas gunmen when they attacked Israel on October 7.
The Dan family confirmed in a tragic Facebook post late on Wednesday that the bodies of both Noya and
Watford has never struck me as a particularly spellbinding place, but it turns out that the Hertfordshire town, around 15 miles north of central London, is a gateway to a magical world – Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, The Making of Harry Potter, which lies on its outskirts.
I say magical not just because you may see your money disappear before your eyes thanks to the temptations of the incredible gift shop and the special effects photos and videos you
All Harry Potter fans know that many of the spells and potions used by the Harry, Ron and Hermione rely on the magical plants that grow in the Wizarding World.
But we Muggles may not be as far from the magic as you think, as J K Rowling actually used real life flowers and herbs to fill the greenhouses of Hogwarts.
Some of them even have similar features as, on Thursday, a new study found that tomato and tobacco plants
Happy birthday to LNER, 100 years old today! To celebrate this landmark, I have recently returned from an Inverness-to-London rail trip using LNER services and, to break the eight-hour journey in period style, I stayed in historic rail hotels.
I also explored London North Eastern Railway’s backstory with eminent rail historians, pored over classic advertising posters — including for the 1920s-era Flying Scotsman, the world’s most famous locomotive — and chatted with an LNER staffer whose great-great-grandfather and grandfather both
There was a time, not so long ago, when things were perfect for the children up at the bright-faced house, at the edge of London. Heaps of toys in the nursery, an enchanted garden that rolled on for ages, and there were always buns for tea. Mother forever merry, forever there. But then Father died, or was imprisoned for treason, or his business partner absconded to Spain with their money, and the family had to abandon all the best
British author JK Rowling has received a vile death threat from an Iran-backing Islamist extremist who appears to have praised Salman Rushdie’s suspected attacker, repeatedly expressed support for Tehran’s theocratic dictator, and branded Israel, Ukraine and India ‘terrorist states’.
The Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner – who has been pilloried by trans activists for her beliefs on gender – had expressed her horror at the sickening attempt on Rushdie’s life in upstate New York when she was issued
British author JK Rowling has condemned the ‘horrifying’ attempt on Salman Rushdie’s life in upstate New York after The Satanic Verses novellist was stabbed multiple times by a suspected knifeman with alleged sympathies to Iran’s theocratic regime.
Reacting to the shocking attack last night, the Harry Potter writer and free speech campaigner – who has been pilloried in public by trans activists ever since she objected to the term ‘people who menstruate’ – tweeted: ‘Horrifying news. Feeling very sick
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WHEN IT COMES TO J.K. ROWLING, even some of the children’s author’s biggest fans are finding it increasingly necessary to separate the work from the creator.
Join the Potter Trail walking tour in her adopted hometown of Edinburgh, and you’ll learn that Rowling wrote much of the first Harry Potter novel at Nicolsons Cafe. The establishment was co-owned by her brother-in-law — so as a broke, recently divorced single mother, she could nurse cheap espresso all day without
The manager of Johnny Depp’s private island in the Bahamas testified Tuesday that she saw the actor passed out face-first in the sand in front of his children after drinking.
Appearing via video, Tara Roberts spoke about the incident during cross examination by Amber Heard’s lawyer Elaine Bredehoft.
The incident appears to have taken place in the summer of 2013 when Depp and his family were taking one last trip on his yacht, the Vajoliroja, before he sold it to
