Apparently, Pottermore producers can only handle one thing at a time. In a recent post on the Pottermore Insider concerning account deletions, there were also a few FAQs, among which was this big question: when will the final installment of the Goblet of Fire be released? The answer: shortly after the Quidditch World Cup finals,…
Our first glimpse into the fifth series of the wildly popular TV show Downton Abbey found its way onto YouTube yesterday. Unfortunately, we’re not given any new footage, so we’re left hoping that further trailers will remedy that. What we are given is Carson speaking over the all-too-familiar opening video sequence (minus the usual credits).…
Chills. This perfect trailer is perfect. It’s perfect, because it’s so ridiculously simple. It doesn’t show us several glimpses from the movie mashed-up together, as you’d typically expect from a teaser trailer. No. Instead, this teaser trailer simply shows us President Snow addressing the nation of Panem, with Peeta standing wistfully by his side. It…
John Green, author of The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns, and Looking for Alaska, visited The Colbert Report on Monday. Stephen Colbert is awesome. John Green is awesome. So, it goes without saying that the resulting interview between these two great minds was also awesome. My favorite part? When Stephen Colbert says this about YA novels: How…
Unlike The Greater Good and The OMEn Chronicles, which have 1.4 and 1.1 million views respectively, this fan film has significantly fewer views at 42,000, despite being on YouTube longer (since 2012). It’s called The Battle of Hogwarts, and the action of this fan film centers around (you guessed it) the Battle of Hogwarts from Harry Potter…
I love the Harry Potter fandom. Its fans are just so… creative. In trying to better organize the menus on this website (above), I decided to create (and expand) a fandom section. What better place to start than with the most-viewed Harry Potter fan film currently on YouTube. With close to 1.4 million views (about 300K more than The…
All the way back on April 9th, Pottermore announced that it would be severing ties with Sony, which had been integral in starting the brand in the first place. Now that partnership has been dissolved, which leads to three questions: What is the future of Pottermore.com? What is the future of Pottermore at PlayStation Home? What is…
Last week, Netflix and Scholastic (which the former recently acquired) announced that, sometime in 2016, it would release 26 all-new half-hour episodes of 90’s cartoon favorite The Magic School Bus, calling the new series The Magic School Bus: 360°. There are 52 episodes currently, all of which are available to stream on Netflix right now. However, rebooting the…
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (the best late-night talk show on the air right now, in my opinion) relocated this week to Universal Orlando in part to promote the Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Diagon Alley expansion opening on July 8th. There were several Harry Potter-related segments featured on the show this week. Here are the best ones!…
On Wednesday, Universal Studios released several high-res images from their highly-anticipated Diagon Alley expansion to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter (WWoHP) theme park in Orlando, Florida. WWoHP opened four years ago, and the expansion will open to wizards, witches (and most importantly, muggles) on Tuesday, July 8th. Here are those images: Personally, I am very,…