J.K. Rowling

A transgender journalist and reality TV personality in the U.K., India Willoughby, has reported Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling to police for misgendering her. “J.K. Rowling has definitely committed a crime,” she said in an interview with Byline TV. “I’m legally a woman. She knows I’m a woman, and she called me a man. It’s a protected characteristic, and that is a breach of both the Equalities Act and the Gender Recognition Act. She’s tweeted that out to 14 million followers.” Willoughby, who said that Rowling’s…

Warner Bros. Discovery announced the target date following a recent meeting with Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling Warner Bros. Discovery’s forthcoming Harry Potter television series is on track to premiere on Max in 2026, according to CEO David Zaslav. The intended schedule was revealed during a fourth-quarter earnings call the company hosted on Friday morning, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “I was in London a few weeks ago with and , and we spent some real time with J.K. and her…

The battle for the top box office spot in the high-stakes world of movie franchises is as exciting as the actual movies. These film franchises, often spanning multiple interconnected universes, have provided us with some of the most enduring scenes in movie history. Here the all time top-grossing movie franchises. Here, we present the five highest-grossing movie franchises of all time based on collection in United States and Cananda. The list is based on the statistics of Box Office Mojo. Top 5 highest-grossing…

Recently, HBO Max officially announced it will be reviving the Harry Potter series as a multi-season television show. During a Warner Bros. Discovery press event, the initiative was described as a “decade-long” project to bring the novels to the small screen, hoping to create a faithful interpretation of the seven-book series. Author J.K. Rowling is set to executive produce. io9 does not write about Harry Potter. We do not cover the Fantastic Beasts movie series. We do not report on the Wizarding World, Universal’s…

Robbie Coltrane at the 2011 British Comedy Awards.Photo: Stuart Wilson (Getty Images)The Scottish actor and comedian Robbie Coltrane has died, as reported by the Hollywood Reporter.Of course, he will likely be most remembered for playing the friendly giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter franchise of films, based on the books of the awful transphobic author J.K. Rowling, as well as several James Bond movies as the Russian mob boss Valentin Zukovsky. However, Coltrane also appeared in the 1983 fantasy film Krull, was in several…

Photo: Tolga Akmen / AFPJ.K. Rowling found out that all’s fair in love and war the hard and awkward way on a Zoom call. The author of the Harry Potter series spoke to someone she thought was Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The person behind the call wasn’t the Ukrainian statesman at all, though,rather the Russian comedic duo Vovan and Lexus. The roughly 12-minute Zoom call, where Rowling can be seen on video while the fake Zelensky was audio-only, was uploaded to YouTube last week and spotted by the Hollywood…