J.K.Rowling: Last News

J.K. Rowling has hit back after being accused of hating men and being on a par with a “kill all men” movement because of her stance on women’s rights.

Harry Potter series.Speaking on a recent episode of the Smartless podcast, Lithgow told hosts Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett that he doesn’t think the role is going to be “that hard” (via People).The actor was discussing the potential shooting schedule for the show, which starts production this summer. When asked how long he’d be filming in London, Lithgow said: “I honestly don’t know.

Alex Ritman The Blair Partnership, the literary agency that has repped J.K. Rowling since it was first set up in 2011 by Neil Blair, has expanded with two key hires in two newly-created roles. Simon Johnson will join as chief commercial officer from Universal Music UK, where he has spent nearly four years as managing director of strategy, growth and ecommerce.

UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series is set to begin filming next summer. They have found a costume designer in Holly Waddington, who recently won an Oscar in her craft for Poor Things starring Emma Stone. Killing Eve scribe Laura Neal has joined the writers room. Deadline exclusively profiled showrunner Francesca Gardiner with quotes from her colleagues and more.

UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series is set to begin filming next summer. They have found a costume designer in Holly Waddington, who recently won an Oscar in her craft for Poor Things starring Emma Stone. Killing Eve scribe Laura Neal has joined the writers room. Deadline exclusively profiled showrunner Francesca Gardiner with quotes from her colleagues and more.

Naman Ramachandran Theater play “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child“ is expanding its global footprint with two new international productions slated for Brazil in 2025 and the Netherlands in 2026. The Brazilian production, marking the play’s Latin American debut, will be performed in Portuguese under VME‘s banner. Stage Entertainment will mount the Dutch-language version in the Netherlands.

Cillian Murphy to play Voldemort in the forthcoming Harry Potter TV series.Fans have been discussing the possibility of the Oppenheimer star in the role since September and now Fiennes, who played the villain from Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire onwards in the original films, has endorsed Murphy.When asked by a fan while making an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live what he thought about the possibility, Fiennes replied: “Cillian is a fantastic actor. That’s a wonderful suggestion.

UPDATED with latest: Killing Eve scribe Laura Neal has joined the writers room for Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series. Deadline exclusively profiled showrunner Francesca Gardiner with quotes from her colleagues and more.

UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series might just enlist a key player from the films to bring viewers back to the world of Hogwarts: Framestore, British VFX company.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment Writer When J.K. Rowling first went public in June 2020 about her belief that transgender women are men and transgender men are women, many of the stars of the “Harry Potter” and “Fantastic Beasts” movies — including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint and Eddie Redmayne — immediately spoke out in support of trans and nonbinary rights and identity.

J.K. Rowling has taken a swipe at David Tennant after Kemi Badenoch, who Tennant has publicly criticised, was named the new leader of the Conservative Party.The 44-year-old MP was announced as the Tory leader on Saturday (November 2) after defeating Robert Jenrick in a leadership contest by over 12,000 votes.

Eddie Redmayne says the audience has most likely seen the last of Newt Scamander, the character he played in the Fantastic Beasts film series.

UPDATED with latest: Warner Bros. Discovery‘s Harry Potter television series has launched an open casting call for its Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

J.K. Rowling and female ex-athletes are among those criticizing the inclusion of transgender Italian sprinter Valentina Petrillo in the Paris Paralympics.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor J.K. Rowling’s articles delving into the intricacies of Harry Potter and the Wizarding World — a collection spanning 80 entries — have been adapted in audio format for the first time, set to launch later this month on Audible. “From the Wizarding Archive” draws on the 80 articles written by Rowling for the original (now-defunct) Pottermore website.

Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling have been named in a lawsuit filed by the Olympic gold medal boxer from Algeria, Imane Khelif.Khelif won gold at the Paris Olympics in the women’s 66kg (welterweight) event on August 9, but became the subject of what the suit claims were “acts of aggravated cyber harassment”.According to Variety, the suit was filed against the social media company X/Twitter in France last Friday (August 9), citing the “online hate speech” to which Khelif was subjected during her route to the gold medal match.Some of the online posts cited referred to Khelif as a man, despite the fact that she was born a female and does not identify as transgender or intersex.Khelif’s legal representative Nabil Boudi confirmed that Musk and Rowling had been named in the body of the criminal complaint, which has been submitted to the anti-online hatred centre of the Paris Prosecutor’s Office, which has now launched an investigation.Could any picture sum up our new men’s rights movement better? The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.

Elon Musk have both been named in a criminal complaint filed to French authorities over alleged “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” against Algerian boxer and newl crowned Olympic champion Imane Khelif. Nabil Boudi, the Paris-based attorney of Khelif, confirmed to Variety that both figures were mentioned in the body of the complaint, posted to the anti-online hatred center of the Paris public prosecutor’s office on Friday. The lawsuit was filed against X, which under French law means that it was filed against unknown persons.

Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif has filed a cyberbullying lawsuit after being wrongly accused of misrepresenting her gender at the Paris Olympics.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who won the Olympic gold medal in the women’s boxing 66-kilogram division, has filed a complaint over online harassment in Paris. During her run at the Olympics, the 25-year-old athlete was bullied on social media after one of her opponents, Italian boxer Angela Carini, abandoned the quarter-final match 46 seconds into its start and declared she “never felt a punch like this.” Khelif was disqualified by the International Boxing Association (IBA) from last year’s Women’s World Championships after she failed a gender eligibility test due to elevated levels of testosterone in her system, but was born female and does not identify as transgender or intersex.

Imane Khelif is coming out on top at the Paris Olympics!

Imane Khelif, whose Olympics run has been overshadowed by a controversy over her gender, is getting closer to winning gold in Paris. On Tuesday, Khelif won over her semi final bout in the women’s 66kg competition against Thai boxer Janjaem Suwannapheng, taking her through to the final on Aug. 9.