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Remember when J.K. Rowling insisted that Harry Potter would end after seven books? Luckily for us Potterheads, she changed her tune. While she stayed true to her vision and wrapped up Harry’s adventures at Hogwarts and his battle with Voldemort in seven parts, she’s delved deeper into her vast magical universe in the years since the series ended. In addition to the countless tidbits she offers on Pottermore and the two-part sequel play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, bowing next summer in London, in about a year we’ll step into the past and explore a new corner of the wizarding world with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. And we now have our first look at the film, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. Fantastic Beasts follows British magizoologist Newt Scamander – whose textbook will one day become required reading for Hogwarts students – on an adventure in New York City decades before Harry receives his Hogwarts letter. EW’s cover story this week offers an early ...

We live in a world when even the smallest hint of Harry Potter information is posted and re-posted all over the internet. And I get that. but sometimes something is reported that results in us having to pull the "News Control" feature out of storage. Today is one of those days. You may have seen something about a new Harry Potter movie that Chris Columbus is interested in. No, not the new Fantastic Beasts movie that's set in the Harry Potter universe, but one staring the main three characters that takes place sometime between the Battle of Hogwarts and the epilogue scene nineteen years later. So here's the full extent of what happened. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly Radio, Chris Columbus (who directed the first two Harry Potter movies) said he would like to direct another one, and that he knew exactly what story he wanted to tell. Here is the exact quote from Columbus. “I would love to go back and do another one. Not Fantastic Beasts as much,...