Harry Potter (fictional character)

'Bling Ring' inspiration came from Kardashians, Emma Watson says

2013-05-16 16:00:00

"The Bling Ring" had Emma Watson "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." The "Harry Potter" alum plays a character based on convicted socialite Alexis Neiers in Sofia Coppola's film, which chronicles the shenanigans of those who looted the homes of...

Cannes 2013: Emma Watson says 'Bling Ring' 'wasn't about stealing'

2013-05-16 15:06:00

CANNES -- Few people can call watching reality TV a professional obligation. But Emma Watson found herself in just that position researching the role of a celebrity-obsessed thief in the fact-based "The Bling Ring." “I had a lot of work to get into...

Dan Brown: Happy 'Inferno' publication day

2013-05-14 09:36:00

Happy publication day to Dan Brown, whose latest Robert Langdon thriller, "Inferno," officially hits shelves Tuesday. Online, it's already declared its dominance: It's Amazon's No. 1 bestselling book -- thanks to preorders, it has been in the website's...

E-book sales almost doubled in 2012, rising to $3.04 billion

2013-05-15 15:32:00

The total revenue generated by e-book sales in the U.S. in 2012 was $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase over the year before. That gain was announced in the preliminary year-end report released Wednesday by BookStats, a joint statistics project between the...

Prince Harry plays football, honors war veterans on U.S. visit

2013-05-13 17:50:00

Prince Harry has a future in American football if that whole royal heir/third in line to the throne thing doesn't work out. The young royal set out on his U.S. visit over last week and, over the weekend, he partook in a very� American pastime: football....

Singer Chris Brown defends artwork on Hollywood Hills home

2013-05-13 07:39:00

Neighbors of singer Chris Brown claim artwork outside his Hollywood Hills home is scaring local kids and ruining the aesthetic of the area. But Brown says the hullabaloo is much ado about nothing. He has taken to Twitter to defend the work. Responding...

Chris Brown to critics of his art: 'Get a ... life!'

2013-05-12 08:24:00

Singer Chris Brown has taken to Twitter to defend artwork outside his Hollywood Hills home that neighbors and the city of Los Angeles want him to take down. Neighbors claim the monsters are scaring neighborhood kids and ruining the hillside aesthetic of...

What may come to Wizarding World of Harry Potter 2.0 at Universal Orlando

2013-05-09 07:45:00

After a year of construction, Universal Orlando� has finally admitted that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter will expand in 2014 with a detailed re-creation of London's Diagon Alley from the wildly popular series of books and movies. Photos: Top 10...

Emma Watson rumors: She won't star in 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film

2013-03-18 11:23:00

Emma Watson, rumored to be starring in the bondage flick "50 Shades of Grey," is shutting those rumors down. The "Harry Potter" star may be breaking with her brainy "Harry Potter" image in her upcoming film "The Bling Ring," which has our beloved...

Who thinks Emma Watson would do the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' film?

2013-03-18 10:17:00

Emma Watson is the actress who played the darling Hermione Granger in the "Harry Potter" movies. She has been going to college at an Ivy -- Brown University -- when she hasn't been making movies. When she took a year abroad, she went to no less than...

‘Doctor Who’: Ice Warriors, Cybermen and London in show’s return

2013-02-28 18:32:40

Oscars 2013: MacFarlane opens the show both crude and polished

2013-02-24 18:19:00

Less than five minutes into Seth MacFarlane’s opening monologue Sunday evening, the raunch humor-prone “Family Guy” creator dropped the kind of transgressive comedy cluster bomb many pop watchers had been anticipating. Describing...

'Potted Potter,' written and performed by former BBC Television, takes on the ultimate challenge of condensing, or “potting”, all seven Harry Potter books into 70 madcap minutes.

2013-05-13 00:00:00

'Potted Potter' condenses all seven "Harry Potter" books in into 70 minutes of comedy at the Bushnell, 166 Capitol Ave., Hartford, May 17 to 26. Story and more information

2013-05-01 00:00:00

Bill Clinton Also: Bradley Cooper Carl Reiner Maria Shriver Jim Gaffigan Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia "Harry Potter" director David Yates

2013-03-18 17:13:57