Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
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Warner Bros. wants to focus more on film universes like “Harry Potter” again. At least that’s what David Zaslav, managing director of the media company Warner Bros. Discovery, which was just created by the merger with the broadcaster Discovery, announced. “We will focus on franchises,” Zaslav said, according to the “Hollywood reporters‘ in a conversation with investors. “We haven’t had a ‘Superman’ movie in 13 years. We haven’t done Harry Potter in 15 years.”
“The DC movies and the Harry Potter movies have brought a lot of profit to Warner Bros… for the last 25 years,” Zaslav said. “If we can do something with JK on Harry Potter in the future,” he’d like to see more, Zaslav said. He also emphasized that Warner Bros. still owns the film rights to “Lord of the Rings”.
Beginning in 2001, Warner Bros. released a total of eight films based on JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books. The last part appeared in 2011 with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2”. Since then, three films have appeared in the spinoff series “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”, most recently in April 2022 “Dumbledore’s Secrets”. Five films were initially announced, but success waned with each installment. It is currently not known whether a fourth part will actually be produced.
Bestselling author Rowling has made headlines in recent years, primarily through her presence on social media, and statements by her on Twitter have repeatedly been criticized as being transphobic.
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