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Stop Scrolling: 6 Unmissable New Releases on Netflix, Disney Plus, and More This Week (Dec 22–28)
Tomorrow, the wait ends. Months of buildup give way to a high-stakes day of hard choices and consequences that will echo far beyond the headlines.
December 22, 2025 10:09 am
This Harry Potter Casting Was So Convincing It Unnerved Rupert Grint
As HBO forges ahead with a Harry Potter reboot, the originals are being reappraised for their near-perfect casting—from Daniel Radcliffe’s boy wizard to Robbie Coltrane’s gentle giant. And one performance still casts the strongest spell.
December 22, 2025 3:56 am
Forget Dumbledore: The Harry Potter Icon Who Was Nearly Unrecognizable Until One Bold Choice
Forget Dumbledore’s recast—Lucius Malfoy nearly hit the screen looking nothing like the sleek, silver-maned aristocrat fans know. Early plans reveal a radically different aesthetic that would have rewritten the Malfoy legacy.
December 22, 2025 3:55 am
Sigourney Weaver Pushes for a Director's Cut of One of Her Most Iconic Films
Sigourney Weaver has one movie she wants recut and back on the big screen, urging a director’s cut of a career-defining favorite she still can’t let go of.
December 22, 2025 3:46 am
Brandon Sanderson Calls Out J.K. Rowling: Snape Carried Harry Potter and Voldemort Was a Weak Villain
Brandon Sanderson and Dan Wells dive into the greatest villains in film and literature, sparking a sharp, surprising debate on what makes evil unforgettable in a new episode of Intentionally Blank.
December 17, 2025 4:18 pm
Holiday Box Office Titans: The All-Time Top Grossers, December 2025
Box office bells are ringing: we rank the highest grossing holiday movies ever as of December 2025, from animated juggernauts to cozy crowd-pleasers, and reveal the perennial champ still topping the tree.
December 17, 2025 12:32 pm
The Best Harry Potter Christmas Movie Is Gloomy by Design — Here’s Why
When Chris Columbus passed the baton and Alfonso Cuarón took the reins with Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter shed its childlike glow, plunging into a darker, moodier world—a bold tonal pivot fans still can’t stop debating.
December 12, 2025 9:27 am
After Harry Potter Setback, Adam Driver Gets Passed Over Again to Succeed Alan Rickman in a New Sequel
Kevin Smith is ready to raise hell again. After reclaiming Dogma and rolling out a 4K restoration, the Clerks filmmaker is pushing ahead with Dogma 2, promising fresh ideas and a bold new direction.
December 11, 2025 2:26 pm
Kevin Smith Reveals The One Actor He Wants To Succeed Alan Rickman In Dogma 2
Kevin Smith has a divine casting pick for a still-hypothetical Dogma 2: Oscar winner Helen Mirren to step into Metatron, the role the late Alan Rickman made iconic.
December 11, 2025 11:31 am
Alan Rickman Once Lauded J.K. Rowling — Would He Call Her a Death Eater Today?
Alan Rickman’s 2011 farewell to Snape and Harry Potter fans—published in Empire—hailed J.K. Rowling as a great storyteller. As the cultural ground around Rowling has shifted, the resurfaced letter lands differently and is reigniting debate among fans.
December 2, 2025 1:28 pm
Stranger Things 5 Goes Full Harry Potter: Is Will the Mind Flayer's Horcrux?
Stranger Things season 5 drops a shocker: a Harry Potter crossover vibe, zeroing in on Will Byers’ painful bond with Vecna that mirrors one of J.K. Rowling’s most iconic twists.
December 2, 2025 11:03 am
Why J.K. Rowling Refused to Let Any Harry Potter Heroine Eclipse Hermione
J.K. Rowling says she brushed off fan demands and kept Emma Watson’s Hermione Granger front and center in Harry Potter — and she explains why in a candid new interview.
November 28, 2025 2:43 pm
Harry Potter Cast a 37-Year-Old as a Teen—and You Never Noticed
At 37, Shirley Henderson walked into a Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets audition and walked out as a 14-year-old Hogwarts ghost — after the casting team urged her to lean even harder into the teen act.
November 25, 2025 1:29 pm
This Harry Potter Theory Finally Explains Why Fred and George Never Caught Peter Pettigrew — 21 Years Later
Two decades after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, a revived fan theory is finally plugging a glaring plot hole: how did Fred and George, practically glued to the Marauder’s Map, miss Peter Pettigrew sharing a dorm with Ron?
November 19, 2025 10:29 pm
The Horcrux That Almost Ended Voldemort Years Before Deathly Hallows
With the new Harry Potter series looming, Reddit is ablaze with a chilling what-if: could a Dementor’s Kiss in Prisoner of Azkaban have wiped out the Horcrux inside Harry years before Deathly Hallows? The fan theory is splitting the fandom and rewriting the rules of soul magic.
November 19, 2025 3:31 pm
Hugh Grant's Breakout Rom-Com Returns to Theaters for a 30th Anniversary Encore
Sense and Sensibility is heading back to the big screen as Sony Pictures celebrates the beloved Jane Austen adaptation’s 30th anniversary with special theatrical screenings, reuniting audiences with Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman.
November 14, 2025 7:46 pm
The Real Reason Alan Rickman Almost Quit Harry Potter
Alan Rickman’s journals reveal he wrestled with his Harry Potter commitment, describing returns to set as dreamlike, as if filming never stopped—until a single day changed everything.
November 12, 2025 11:59 am
HBO’s Harry Potter Must Keep the One Storyline That Doomed Fred Weasley From the Start
HBO’s Harry Potter reboot has a bigger mission than page-by-page fidelity: reclaim the lore the films cut. Start with the Prewett family—Molly Weasley’s brave twin brothers, Fabian and Gideon—whose sacrifice deserves the spotlight.
November 11, 2025 4:43 am
Frankenstein Director Guillermo del Toro Is the Reason the Best Harry Potter Movie Exists
Alfonso Cuarón almost passed on directing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, saying he was initially baffled and ready to decline. He only signed on after Guillermo del Toro pushed him to take it, a move that kept the third film from landing with someone else.
November 8, 2025 1:14 pm
One HBO Harry Potter Change Makes the Female Voldemort Report Look Tame
HBO’s Harry Potter reboot is already a lightning rod: after headlines over Black Snape and talk of a female Voldemort, Redanian Intelligence now reports the series may add a narrator — a twist poised to ignite the fandom anew.
November 5, 2025 10:06 am