Leakycon Portland keeps on adding to the illustrious special guest list! This time it’s Devon Murray who played everyone’s favorite accidental pyromaniac, Seamus Finnigan, in the Harry Potter films. Other than HP, Murray has been in the film Angela’s Ashes and the TV More…
NBCUniversal has been given the greenlight by L.A. County to go ahead with construction of a Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Universal Studios Hollywood. Variety is reporting that NBCUniversal will spend nearly $500 million to build the park More…
The good folks over at MuggleNet have some juicy news about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter expansion park in Florida. We’d previously brought you the lowdown of what the new theme park will consist of, but now we’re getting into the real More…
Today it’s being reported, specifically by MuggleNet, that the Potter films are going to be re-released in theaters in 2017. They cite an IMDB page for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which lists a re-release date of July 7, 2017. MuggleNet More…
Potterheads, it looks like you’re joining the many fandoms who’ve been getting great news lately. We have some new details on the Diagon Alley expansion for the Wizarding World of Harry Potter that we’re just dying to share! First, and More…
Richard Griffiths, well known on screen and stage but perhaps best known to many of us as Harry Potter’s Uncle Vernon Dursley, has died at age 65 from complications after heart surgery. According to The Guardian, tributes have already begun More…
LeakyNews was able to attend James and Oliver Phelps’ panel at MegaCon in Orlando this morning. The moderator cheekily greeted the audience with: “Welcome to our Twilight panel! You’re all so sparkly today!” During the panel, we took some notes More…
Every muggle’s favorite wizard sport is getting the sixth installment of the World Cup this year, on April 13 and 14. The new flashy website is now online for this year’s tournament and tickets are officially on sale! More than a few steps away More…
Our mothership, The Leaky Cauldron, has posted a tip that Leavesden Studios, the filming location turned museum outside London, is planning an event for superfans out-of-hours in… August. Hm. More info as we get it! You Might Also Like:Once Upon More…
Our friends at the Harry Potter Alliance have been fighting Warner Brothers over accountability for the sourcing of cocoa for Harry Potter chocolate. The HPA has compelling evidence, compiled by rights activists Free2Work, showing that WB’s chocolate operation gets an ‘F’ grade More…
Hold on to your wizard hats, everybody. The Sun reported today that a mini Harry Potter movie is secretly in the works. A source for The Sun newspaper confirmed by saying, “The cast have really enjoyed getting back together — More…
an Documentary “Finding Hogwarts” is offering their DVD and Blu-rays for 30% off this Cyber Monday at FindingHogwarts.com. The film ships worldwide and is encoded for all regions. “Finding Hogwarts” is a documentary to explore what makes Harry Potter and More…
It was announced today by Brescia University College, Canada’s only all-women university, that Harry Potter’s own Evanna Lynch will be joining them as a speaker for International Day of the Girl on October 11th! A rep from Evanna’s camp has said, “Evanna is More…
Leakycon 2012 hosted the LeakyCup, a unique amateur Muggle Quidditch tournament organized by the International Quidditch Association (IQA). To open the tournament, the IQA’s Regional Director for the Mid-Atlantic, Logan Anbinder, explained the rules and roots of Muggle Quidditch. He More…
Yesterday at LeakyCon I attended the How Harry Got Its Style panel with graphic designers Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima, who led the design on all of the graphic props of the Harry Potter films. Mira, Eduardo, and Lauren, also a More…
