For actors and actresses, getting a big break in a film or TV show can end up being a very lucrative business indeed. Getting the role of Harry Potter, for example, clearly transformed the life of young child actor Daniel Radcliffe, helping to make him a Hollywood star with a net worth of about £90 … >
When it was announced that the final book in JK Rowling’s Harry Potter series was to be split into two films, it was met with a mixed reaction. Some were sceptical as to the necessity of it, some were relieved that the hefty storyline would not have to be cut down too much to fit … >
The film adaptation of Harry Potter’s sixth year at Hogwarts arrived on cinema screens in 2009. Things are changing at Hogwarts. Voldemort’s power is rising beyond the school walls, and nobody is truly safe. Draco Malfoy is harbouring a dark secret, Snape has claimed the much coveted position of Defence Against The Dark Arts professor, … >
2007 brought with it Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in movie form. Harry’s fifth year marks something of a change in the franchise; a turn for the darker, in terms of both plot and style. The Goblet of Fire ends with Voldemort’s return, so it’s natural that the stakes are heightened and … >
Which fictional sports do you wish you could play in real life? Did you want to play quidditch after reading the Harry Potter books? Or fancy a pod race after watching The Phantom Menace? Or feel brave enough to give rollerball a try? SBO.net have compiled a brilliant infographic looking at some of fiction’s greatest … >
By the time 2005 arrived, we had reached the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter franchise: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. It seems bizarre that more than a decade has passed since we were introduced to the Quidditch World Cup and the Triwizard Tournament; to Beauxbatons, Durmstrang, Robert Pattinson’s Cedric Diggory and the … >
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban hit cinema screens in 2004, and brought with it a deeper understanding of the magical world created by JK Rowling, as long-buried secrets slowly emerge. The premise of the third instalment in the Potter series is this: escaped mass-murderer Sirius Black has somehow broken out of the wizarding … >
2002 saw the much-anticipated return of the wizarding world to the big screen when Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets arrived in cinemas. The second instalment in Rowling’s Potter series is stuffed full of foreshadowing, and sets up many apparently inconsequential things which prove to be very important later on. We meet Dobby the … >
It seems strange to think that 15 years have already passed since the release of the very first Harry Potter movie, but it’s true. Nearly a decade and a half since we saw the famous ‘Golden Trio’ of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson united onscreen for the first time and since children, teens … >
Everyone is getting excited for the release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, now more details surrounding the movie are being revealed. First J.K. Rowling, creator and screenplay writer confirmed there will be five films instead of three. After that, Ezra Miller, Fantastic Beasts co-star, commented in greater detail on the movie’s connection … >