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JK Rowling Confirms New ‘Harry Potter’ Book!

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JK Rowling is coming out with an eighth Harry Potter book this summer. It’s just going to be the script for her stage play in book form but she’s calling it the eighth book in the series. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child follows Harry nineteen years after we last left him.  He’s now a father and the Cursed Child (we’re guessing) is his son. The play hasn’t opened in London yet and the publishers are planning on opening the show the same day the book is released (July 31st). We’re still confused on whether this is a book or a script but we’re guessing JK Rowling will answer some of these questions later on. Right now all that matters is that we’re getting an eighth installment to the Harry Potter series. Fans might be angry or thrilled but for better or worse, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is expanding and it’s not stopping. We’re going to buy a copy of the book/script without thinking and we’re assuming millions will do the same. If it’s got the name Harry Potter embossed in silver lettering on the dust jacket, it’s going to be good.

 

 

FIRST LOOK! Eddie Redmayne In ‘Fantastic Beasts’

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Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is an absurdly long title but its also the synopsis. JK Rowling’s next attempt to feed starving fans is a prequel to her Harry Potter series. It’s not a 150 page book (like The Tales of Beetle the Bard) or a London stage play (like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) or a moderately successful website of bonus stories (like Pottermore). No, instead its a trilogy about Newt Scamander trying to write a textbook. Because that sentence might be the dullest idea for a movie, JK Rowling added some mythical beasts that escape from a briefcase. That’s a little more exciting. They’ve also got Eddie Redmayne starring. So all in all, I don’t think it’s worst idea for a Harry Potter spin-off but it’s not the best. There are definitely better ideas (like every fan fiction ever written about Snape). But whatever. We’re interested in this movie because of the franchise it’s apart of. We’ll gladly take whatever JK Rowling will give us.

Harry Styles “Dancing Through Life” In Wicked Movie?

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One Direction’s unquestionable leader, Harry Styles, may be trading World Tours for Broadway.

According to The Sun, the Pop singer is eying the Wicked Witch’s love interest Fieyero in the movie adaptation of Wicked.

While the long-brewing movie has been rumored for quite some time, we think now might finally be the time for Wicked to defy gravity on the big screen. Or at least we hope so!!! We think that late 2016 or early 2017 slate would be PERFECT. Broadway fans are getting anxious to the point of losing faith and since this has been in the works for quite some time we think the creative team could easily create the film we all want and expect in that timeframe.

As for who’s going to be attached, there are plenty of rumors to get us excited while we wait. We already knew that Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry was in talks to direct but the internet has exploded over the idea that 1D member Harry Styles will play Fieyero.

While every blog known to man has voiced their opinion on this choice, we might as well join the club and say that this is a near perfect fit for both Styles and Wicked.

While One Direction is worshiped by millions of fans, by 2016 it looks like a mature rebrand of the band will be the only thing to keep the band from fading into the past. And while that may happen, the likelier approach will be for Harry Styles to jump ship or at least side burner it for other things that will keep him in the spotlight. And that thing would definitely be Wicked.

The show, now a phenomenon on Broadway celebrating 10 years with no closing date in sight, doesn’t need the movie to boost sales but might as 2017 rolls around. The show, which is the most profitable franchise for Universal Studios (more successful that ET I might add!!!) is expected to be the same blockbuster smash. But Harry Styles certainly would help!!! In fact, as we think about other choices, no one really comes to mind except for Styles!

This is pretty much the perfect place for the movie right now as it slowly gains traction. They shouldn’t and won’t release any official news until likely 2015 when the many Broadway movie adaptations coming out this year leave everyone’s minds. Right now were exactly where Producers want us: thinking about the project even if it is with wild unlikely rumors. As time goes by and we start to gain specifics about the adaptation, our dreams will be toned down.

But for right now, in this free for all where anything and everything could happen, this dream choice could, no should, be true!

Harry Potter Gets a Makeover

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It seems as though Harry Potter’s finale at the box office also meant it’s finale in the book stores as publishers desperately try to make the series appeal to a new generation. All grown up, the original score of fans have departed with only the devote fans (of which there are many) to support the franchise. Yes, there is still the Harry Potter world at Universal Studios, but it seems there will be company with rumors that a Hunger Games theme park is in the making to seriously compete with Harry. JK Rowling’s attempt at immortalizing her books was Pottermore, an interactive website in the world of Harry Potter. However, with a generation where Apps have replaced gaming websites, it is a surprise that Pottermore’s pointless activities are still online. In this third attempt, they’ve turned to the actual books and chosen Kazu Kibuishi to illustrate the covers for the paper back editions of the new era of Harry Potter. Will this reimagining be what iOS7 did for Apple? Kibuishi has reinvigorated the aesthetic of the series beautifully and certainly well enough to gain a newer audience. In addition to Kibuishi’s work encouraged the same thing across the pond when Jim Kay was picked by JK Rowling to do the same thing for the British editions which should be out 2015. I personally think that this decision to have split covers (and different aesthetics for the series) was an annoyance in the last edition and will be in the future. But I am none the less greatly pleased with this new chapter in the Harry Potter phenomenon.