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Harry Potter / Wizarding World

Harry Potter and Wizarding World movies, games and news in one place.

Written by Total Apex Entertainment Staff · Editorial Policy · Updated

Total Apex Take

The brand is bigger than ever commercially — and more contested culturally than it's ever been.

HBO's episodic “Harry Potter” series is in production with a new young cast, a format choice (one book per season, reportedly a decade-long commitment) that's genuinely ambitious and very different from trying to remake the films shot-for-shot. Whether it can escape comparison to the original movie cast is the open question that will define its first season more than anything else.

We'd be underselling the franchise's current reality not to note that J.K. Rowling's public stances on trans issues have become inseparable from how a meaningful chunk of the audience engages with the brand, including some cast members from the original films publicly distancing themselves from her views. That tension isn't going away, and it shapes how the new series will be received as much as the writing does.

Our take: the Wizarding World's theme park expansions are the financially safest bet in the portfolio right now; the HBO series is the highest-risk, highest-reward one, and it's the one actually worth paying attention to.

About Harry Potter / Wizarding World

Harry Potter is the film franchise adapted from J.K. Rowling's best-selling novels, following a young wizard's years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Warner Bros. released eight main films between 2001 and 2011, making it one of the highest-grossing film franchises in history, and later expanded the universe with the Fantastic Beasts prequel series.

Beyond film, the Wizarding World brand spans theme parks, stage plays like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and video games such as Hogwarts Legacy, while a new HBO television adaptation of the original novels has been announced to retell the story in series form.

The original eight-film series, based on J.K. Rowling's seven novels, crossed a combined $7 billion at the worldwide box office and holds the Guinness World Record for highest-grossing fantasy film series. Warner Bros. has since expanded the property into the Fantastic Beasts prequel series and stage production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, with an HBO television adaptation of the original novels also in development.

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