Harry Potter producers pull lead actors for ten year TV adaptation from hat

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Harry Potter producers pull lead actors for ten year TV adaptation from hat

31 May 2025

Two years after the announcement of a ten series TV adaptation of the (original) Harry Potter books, members of the primary cast have been announced.

This includes Dominic McLaughlin, Arabella Stanton, and Alastair Stout in the roles of Harry, Hermione, and Ron, respectively. Other castings include John Lithgow as Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, and Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape. No word yet on who will portray bad guy Voldemort, though rumours suggest this might be Cillian Murphy.

So, another ten years of Harry Potter on the screen. No doubt fans will be delighted. It is anticipated the first series will be broadcast sometime in 2026 or 2027.

Small Things Like These, a film by Tim Mielants, with Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson

13 March 2025

Small Things Like These, trailer, directed by Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants, and starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Watson, looks like a drama/thriller not to be missed.

Based on the novel of the same name by Irish writer Claire Keegan, and set in 1985, Murphy portrays Bill Furlong, who works as a coal merchant and timber merchant, in the Irish town of New Ross.

After finding a young girl locked in shed while on a delivery job, he takes her a convent to be cared for. But it soon becomes apparent things are not what they seem to be at the convent. Bill goes on to not only uncover some disturbing secrets about the convent, but also his own past.

Small Things Like These opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 10 April 2025.