LONDON: British actress Maggie Smith, an award-winning Shakespearian actress and double Oscar winner who later appeared in the Harry Potter films as Professor Minerva McGonagall, has died aged 89, the BBC reported on Friday (Sept 27). One of the few actors to win an Oscar (two), Emmy (four), and Tony, Smith's long career started on the...
LONDON: British actress Maggie Smith, an award-winning Shakespearian actress and double Oscar winner who later appeared in the Harry Potter films as Professor Minerva McGonagall, has died aged 89, the BBC reported on Friday (Sept 27). One of the few actors to win an Oscar (two), Emmy (four), and Tony, Smith's long career started on the...
HBO announced on June 26 that its upcoming Harry Potter television series will be led by Succession veterans Francesca Gardiner, as writer and showrunner, and Mark Mylod, as director of several episodes. Both Gardiner and Mylod worked on the HBO series Succession about a dysfunctional family that runs a media empire, which won 19 Emmys. Gardiner...
Almost 10kg, which can do serious damage to someone. Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu, 47, and ex-husband, 42-year-old Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei, have been engaged in several legal battles since their divorce in late 2021. Recently, Xiaofei made several claims in Taiwan court that Barbie had used his credit card on gifts and items for her subsequent marriage to Korean rapper DJ Koo, 54. She rebutted the claims in a lengthy post...
Props from Harry Potter and Star Wars will be among the items going up for sale in an online auction. Propstore will launch a three-day auction from March 12 until March 14 where potential buyers can bid online, over the phone, or via absentee bidding for the chance to get their hands on memorabilia from Hollywood,...
Daniel Radcliffe opened up about one of his dream roles – starring in another rom-com. The 34-year-old Harry Potter alum shared the screen with Zoe Kazan in his 2013 rom-com What If. More than a decade later, he’s ready to film another. On the red carpet at the 2023 Emmys, he said that he would “love” to get back into the genre. He even has...
Oh dear, Draco Malfory is in big trouble. Be careful where you point your wand or else someone can get hurt. That’s the hard lesson Tom Felton learnt in a recent Uber Eats commercial. The minute-long Uber Eats Australia ad — for its “Get almost, almost anything” campaign — sees a doleful Felton reminiscing the good old...
Local actress Chantalle Ng has been a big Harry Potter fan since she was a child. As Potterheads (fans of the iconic franchise), one of the things that they must do is to take the Sorting Hat test, which would place them into one of the four Hogwarts Houses. In a way, it is also a...
Boy wizard Harry Potter is headed to streaming television in a new series based on the beloved books by author J.K. Rowling. Warner Bros Discovery announced the series on Wednesday (April 13) as part of the company's plans for its Max streaming service, which combines HBO Max with unscripted programming from Discovery. The seven Harry Potter books have...
JK Rowling has been defended by Warner Bros after a question about her was blocked at a Harry Potter event. The Harry Potter writer, 56, was supported by the studio after a Sky News reporter was stopped from asking actor Tom Felton about Rowling on the 25th anniversary of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Felton, 34,...
