HBO’s Harry Potter series has cast Rafe Spall as Arthur Weasley, Molly Hewitt-Richards as Moaning Myrtle and Jasper Ambrose as Colin Creevey for season two. It has also, by our reading, cast Ginny Weasley twice.
Read MorePluribus takes four Creative Arts Emmys and finally ends Vince Gilligan’s winless streak, Marvel’s X-Men casts Asa Germann as Angel, and Leigh Bardugo prepares to shut the crypt door on the Alex Stern trilogy. Genre news, 10-11 September 2026.
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Read MoreThe final trailer for Digger has landed. Alejandro G. Iñárritu directs Tom Cruise as the most powerful man alive, racing to prove he is humanity’s saviour before the catastrophe he started finishes the job. In cinemas and IMAX from 2 October.
Read MoreThe Star Trek 60th anniversary brings a new Paramount film and a Le Creuset cookware range, the 2026 Dragon Awards hand out rockets to a near-empty room, the HWA dissolves its Executive Director post, and HBO’s Harry Potter finds its Tom Riddle. Genre news, 7-9 September 2026.
Read MoreThe full Godzilla Minus Zero trailer has landed. Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel is the first Japanese production ever Filmed For IMAX, it opens in November, and Toho would like you to believe that this time it really is the last one.
Read MoreAfter sixteen years, three cities, two civic rejections and roughly a billion dollars of his own money, George Lucas opens the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles on 22nd September. Frazetta hangs down the hall from Gentileschi, and Star Wars is only seven per cent of the floor space.
Read MoreTrump posted a ‘next generation’ Space Force dress uniform to Truth Social, with a design sheet naming Starship Troopers as the inspiration. It is a genuine post. It is not, on close inspection, a genuine uniform.
Read MoreNetflix let The Kane Chronicles rot in development for four years. Now Disney+ has prised the lid off the sarcophagus, with Rick Riordan co-creating alongside Angela Robinson. Here is what we know, plus our entirely unsolicited fantasy casting.
Read MoreDonguri’s pull-back Ohmu keyrings from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind come in calm blue and furious red, move at different speeds, and cost ¥2,200 each. Getting one out of Japan is the hard part.
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