Harry Potter

The Harry Potter franchise dominated the box office from 2001 to 2011 with eight movies released based off of the massively successful book series. In 2016, Warner Bros. released a prequel movie under the Fantastic Beasts banner and storyline. Plans for a trilogy of the Fantastic Beasts...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) said Wednesday that a user of its Portal video-calling devices and up to three friends can now transform themselves into characters from the “The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” play. What Happened: The Augmented Reality or AR experience will be available on...

Jam City, a leading mobile game company that has owned intellectual property and some of the top licensed games, is going public in a SPAC deal announced Thursday morning. What Happened: The SPAC deal is with Dpcm Capital Inc (NYSE: XPOA). The deal values Jam City at $1.2...

Engaging in a Twitter conversation with "Harry Potter" series author J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk revealed how much bitcoin he owns. What Happened Rowling, the British millionaire author, disagreed with a tweet that stated, “Wizards still need to trust Gringotts Bank. Bitcoin fixes...

Funko Inc (NASDAQ: FNKO) shares fell more than 15% Friday after reporting a third-quarter earnings miss and guidance that came in below Street estimates. Funko reported adjusted quarterly earnings of 38 cents per share, which beat the consensus estimate of 32 cents. The company reported...

Zynga Inc (NASDAQ: ZNGA) reported a third-quarter earnings miss Wednesday. The mobile game developer reported earnings of 1 cent per share, missing estimates by 3 cents. Sales came in at $233.2 million, missing estimates by $16.23 million. Wedbush Sees 'Compelling Investment'  Wedbush...

Harry Potter fans got their first glimpse of the new "Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery" mobile game, which will be launched this spring. The official teaser trailer for the game came out today ahead of the game’s planned public introduction during the A Celebration of Harry Potter...

The chairman of this book store operator scooped up some shares this past week. Those purchases followed the release of second-quarter results. The share price dropped sharply following the earnings report. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10 percent owners really only buy...

This week, "Harry Potter" fans celebrated the 20-year anniversary of the popular book and movies series. The first book of the series, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone," was published on June 26, 1997. Author J.K. Rowling took to Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) to...

In a three-way battle, the science fiction of Star Wars is pitched against the magical wizardry of Harry Potter and the super heroes of Marvel Entertainment. Picking the "winner" is truly a tough proposition, as each in its own right has a mass appeal, huge fan following and tasted commercial...

The "Star Wars" spinoff “Rogue One,” which is set to hit screens on December 16, is expected to be one of the biggest movies of the year for Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS). Last year’s “Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens” grossed $936.6 million...

Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)’s Harry Potter spinoff “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” dominated the box offices this past weekend. The movie grossed $75.0 million at the domestic box office, in line with lofty expectations. Harry Potter Universe Still Carries Magic “...

With the release of the screenplay adaptation of the book titled "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" written by J.K. Rowling under the pen name Newt Scamander in 2001 around the corner, Loop Capital Markets previewed the release and its ramification on Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX), the parent...

The success of the "Harry Potter" franchise made it a matter of when, not if, a major cable company would shell out the big bucks to obtain the commercial television rights to the franchise's movies. According to the Wall Street Journal, Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX)'s Warner Bros. studio struck a...