Warner Bros is planning more ‘Harry Potter’ games following ‘Hogwarts Legacy’

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Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Channing Dungey first joined Warner Bros. TV Group as chairman in late 2020 — right in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, which made for an interesting first year on the job. Then came the Warner Media-Discovery merger in 2022, and the restructuring that came with it.

Harry Potter saga is at a “nascent” stage, with writers now being invited to pitch specific ideas to HBO Max.The news of a new TV version of J.K. Rowling’s series of books was confirmed by HBO Max last April, with reports that each of the seven books will get its own season.“Your Hogwarts letter is here,” a tweet from the streaming company read.

EXCLUSIVE: Straight off her second Primetime Emmy win for HBO’s The White Lotus, Jennifer Coolidge is boarding Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take of videogame Minecraft which is shooting in New Zealand.

during the 2024 Emmy Awards on Monday. Radcliffe, 34, who is nominated for his role as “Weird Al” Yankovic in Roku’s musical biopic “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story,” made the revelation during the award show‘s red carpet interview with Laverne Cox. “What was it like playing a real-life person?” Cox, 51, asked Radcliffe, adding that she knew that Darke was a huge fan of the parody singer.

Glamour and Tory Burch hosted their annual for the women changing the face of television. A record number of those nominated for the 75th Emmy Awards attended, including Elizabeth Debicki, plus , Jessica Williams, Padma Lakshmi, Hannah Waddingham and more.The annual celebration of women in TV took place at Soho House Holloway in West Hollywood with guests wearing a gorgeous array of .

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Actor Toby Jones has won the nation's hearts while portraying real life hero Alan Bates in ITV's Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and fans have been left shocked after discovering a rather surprising role he had in the past.Toby, 57, has starred in a number of popular films and TV shows, and has appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Unvierse, the Harry Potter franchise, and The Hunger Games trilogy. He appeared as Dr.

ITV's new drama series, Mr Bates vs The Post Office has sparked fury across the country as the post office scandal which saw hundreds of postmasters being wrongfully accused of fraud has been brought to light.

Acclaimed Brit actor Toby Jones has been impressing viewers as activist and former sub-postmaster Alan Bates in the series Mr Bates vs the Post Office - and it has emerged that the 57-year-old father of two made a huge sacrifice just to get the show off the ground. Since its release on New Year’s Day, the gripping ITV drama has brought the shocking real-life Post Office scandal back into the spotlight, as well as the real-life people involved, with viewers outraged at the miscarriage of justice which took place, against hundreds of innocent postal workers.

Twinning in goth finery and awash in PDA and declarations of love, Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet were the talk of the 2024 Golden Globes. In a few scant months, the pair have gone from rumored couple to full-blown kissing during commercial breaks. The gloves are off, the hands are holding, and there’s not a chance in hell that Selena Gomez is getting a picture with that dude now.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “Hogwarts Legacy” crossed 22 million copies sold by the end of 2023, with approximately 2 million of those units selling during the December holiday season, according to Warner Bros. Games. “But it’s not just the unit sold that I’m so proud of, it’s just that it delighted the fans so much,” Warner Bros.

Iconic British medical drama Casualty has been a favourite for UK viewers since it first aired. Derek Thompson, who played Charlie from the start, is set to leave in scenes that will air later this year.The show's original cast made a big impact, but where are they now? Let's take a look at what some of the stars are up to now... Derek Thompson Derek Thompson, who plays Charlie Fairhead in Casualty, is the longest-serving cast member of the show.

Throughout the first week of January, ITV viewers at home have been gripped by fresh new drama Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which followed the real life journey of several sub-postmasters who were wrongfully accused (and in some cases even charged) with stealing from the Post Office, thanks to a Horizon computer error.The show, which spanned across four nights in total, saw a star studded cast including Toby Jones, Will Mellor and Julie Hesmondhalgh bring the story to life, including their ongoing fight for justice and compensation for the hundreds of people that were still affected by the error. In emotional scenes, fans saw the toll of the scandal with their own eyes, with several of the accused having lost their jobs, their homes and in some cases even having taken their own lives after struggling to cope with the mental toll of being wrongfully blamed for the error.

John Williams has confirmed that he has not yet decided to retire, saying he “likes to keep an open mind”.The composer, 91, has won five Academy Awards from a staggering 53 nominations, and is known for his work on Star Wars, Jaws, Indiana Jones and Harry Potter, among others.Williams had previously suggested that his score for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, released in 2023, would be his final full length film composition.Speaking in June 2022, he had said: “At the moment I’m working on Indiana Jones 5, which Harrison Ford – who’s quite a bit younger than I am – I think has announced will be his last film. So, I thought: If Harrison can do it, then perhaps I can, also,” he said.However, by the time the film came out, he had already begun to row back on that assertion.Speaking to Steven Spielberg in January 2023, he said: “Well, Steven is a lot of things.

As Waterloo Road returns to our screens with a brand new series, fans of the BBC school drama will once again be treated to a new batch of storylines for their favourite characters to sink their teeth into. Among the returning characters for 2024, is Andrew Treneman, portrayed by Jamie Glover who famously returned to the hit show last year, 14 years since he last set foot in the troubled comprehensive school from which the show takes its name.

EXCLUSIVE: Production is about to be underway on Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take on Mojang/Microsoft’s Minecraft in New Zealand, and sources are telling us that Jack Black is joining the cast of the Jason Momoa led movie.

The familiar face of Toby Jones has returned to our screens for the new ITV drama Mr Bates vs Post Office, but what fans might not know is that he also has star-studded parents.Toby, 57, who holds an OBE, is best known for being the voice of Dobby in the Harry Potter films from 2002 to 2010. Other huge roles from the actor include Percy Alleline in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Claudius, the announcer for The Hunger Games.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has seen his fortune double to a whopping £16million, thanks to savvy investments in property worth over £3.3million. Now 34, Daniel became a household name globally after first appearing as young wizard Harry in 2001. Company records reveal that last year he had a cool £8,832,790 in his bank account, which has now doubled to an impressive £16,085,209, according to The Mirror.The actor and his parents run a firm called Gilmore Jacobs, which rakes in a tidy sum from smart investments, including a property portfolio valued at nearly £3.4million.

Revered composer John Williams has walked back his retirement talk, saying of previous reports that he’d put down his baton for the final time, “I don’t care much for grand pronunciamentos, statements that are firm and finished and surrounded by closed doors. If I made one without putting it in context then I withdraw it.”