Harry Potter at Home has launched a read-along for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Celebrities including Daniel Radcliffe will be reading chapters of the first Potter book for fans to enjoy. Daniel reads the first chapter; The Boy Who Lived. Watch it here!
Harry Potter At Home is the Wizarding World’s way of bringing Hogwarts closer to you, as we all continue to stay at home and keep safe. For parents looking for new magical ways to entertain their children during this time, we launched the Harry Potter At Home hub full of quizzes, puzzles, fun videos and features, along with contributions from our friends, UK and US Harry Potter publishers, Bloomsbury and Scholastic, alongside assistance from Warner Bros., Audible and our many library partners. To learn more about everything Harry Potter At Home has to offer, our handy round-up should help!
Also seen in the clip above are Eddie Redmayne (Newt Scamander,) Stephen Fry (UK audiobook reader,) Noma Dumezweni (Hermione in Cursed Child,) and more from the Harry Potter world! Look out for more famous faces and friends of the Wizarding World (and beyond!) to read through all seventeen chapters of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone over the coming weeks.
We look forward to new narrators every week as they take turns to read different sections of the Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone, until we reach the end with Chapter Seventeen. Keep an eye out for some very special surprise cameos along the way too.
As you watch Daniel read through ‘The Boy Who Lived’, you’ll notice some amazing artwork interspersed in the experience, thanks to some talented fans. Brilliantly, you yourself can get involved in future chapters, from Chapter Two onwards, so your own pieces can feature alongside our special guest narrators. According to our incredible mathematics skills, you have sixteen chapters remaining of Philosopher’s Stone/Sorcerer’s Stone to work with – so please do send in your artistic interpretations of key scenes. Read all about how to get involved here.
Today IMAX has released a new Behind The Frame featurette featuring Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald director David Yates, producer David Hayman, Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law discussing why IMAX is the ideal format for bringing the Wizarding World to life. From the biggest screens to heart-pounding audio and an awe-inspiring picture, it is more fantastic in IMAX!
“You want to be taken to another place and IMAX takes you there like no other format.” – Producer David Hayman
“When you watch an event movie, you want to see it on the best screen you can.” – Director David Yates
“It’s somewhat out of body. It’s like you’re in the Wizarding World. I like the scale and the experience of watching everything on the massive screen.” – Actor Jude Law
The IMAX release of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images, coupled with IMAX’s customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio, create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the Wizarding World themselves.
The cast of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald spent the day on Thursday, November 1st celebrating the Wizarding World with students and community from Parkside School in Baileyton, Alabama. Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz and Callum Turner surprised the students for a day of games and fun! Make sure you get your tickets for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, out November 16th!
The principal, teachers, staff and alumni at Parkside, a title one school in Cullman County, Alabama, transformed classrooms and hallways into the Hogwarts Houses seen in the Harry Potter series, using their own money, raised funds and donated materials to inspire as well as educate their students, and to provide a safe and creative environment for them to grow and learn. To honor and celebrate these educators and their dedication to their students, the cast of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald surprised the students and faculty as the school hosted Wizarding World Day full of themed games and lots of excitement.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be released on November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Nine new posters for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald have been released featuring character shots and taglines for the films major players. We see Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore, Gellert Grindelwald, Jacob, Credence, Leta, Theseus, Queenie and Tina Goldstein. Each poster contains a tagline pertaining to that characters wearabouts or role in the film. All nine Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald posters can be viewed in the gallery!
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald hits theaters on November 16, 2018.
Update:a tenth character poster has been released featuring none other than…..NAGINI! Yes, Nagini is a woman, more specifically a Maledictus. Not to be confused with an Animagi or Werewolves, Maledictuses are always women and carry a blood curse from birth, which is passed down from mother to daughter. The slow transformation into a beast is beyond their control, but they aren’t destined to be evil and are not all are snakes. (Source: Twitter replies from Jo to fans)
This morning, Wizarding World fans at King’s Cross railway station for “Back to Hogwarts” Day got the surprise of their lives when Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law, stars of the highly anticipated new big-screen adventure Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, apparated on Platform 9 ¾ to join the festivities and lead the countdown to the 11:00 AM departure of the Hogwarts Express.
From the press release:
The annual gathering is a big moment for the U.K.’s massive population of Harry Potter fans. Each year on September 1st, they flock to King’s Cross by the thousands, often dressed as their favorite character from J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, to commemorate the day young wizards and witches from across the U.K. make their way to Platform 9 ¾ to board the iconic steamer that whisks them off to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Fans lined up for hours at a popular photo point to get a shot of themselves pushing a luggage trolley “through” the brick wall to recreate Harry and others’ passage through the magical barrier and onto Platform 9 ¾, with staff on-hand to help with the finishing touches, such as their Hogwarts scarf. But in the place of staff members, fans reached the front of the line to find none other than Redmayne and Law standing by to assist.
Following a lively round of photos, the two stars led the countdown to the 11:00 AM departure of the Hogwarts Express.
In the new film, Redmayne once again stars as Magizoologist Newt Scamander, with Law taking on the iconic role of Newt’s friend and one-time professor, Albus Dumbledore, decades before he becomes Headmaster at Hogwarts.
Fans can look forward to experiencing Hogwarts again when Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the second of five all new adventures in the Wizarding World, comes to cinemas on 16 November, 2018, from Warner Bros. Pictures.
Entertainment Weekly and Empire Magazine have released new photos from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald! The first shows a photo of Newt with his luggage open pointing his wand at something. The second shows Dumbledore teaching students about boggarts, including a young Newt Scamander! Both images can be seen in high resolution in the gallery!
You can buy the August issue of Empire for more on Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. The EW article also includes some new information on Leta Lestrange in the form of an interview with Eddie Redmayne:
“Leta, it’s one of those relationships where there was definitely great love there,” Eddie Redmayne, who plays grown-up Newt, tells EW. “But was it ever a full-blown relationship? I don’t know. But certainly, she’s somebody who has touched him hugely. At the beginning of this film you realize she’s now in a relationship with Newt’s brother so, of course, that comes with great complications.”
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald hits theaters on November 16th.
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