Who Owns The Harry Potter Movie Franchise
Executive Tom Ascheim has been promoted and will oversee the studios Harry Potter franchise and Wizarding World properties. Even 21 years after its publication the book still tops the charts as the fifth best-selling single-volume book of all time with over 120 million sales.
Rowlings Wizarding World is a fantasy media franchise and shared fictional universe centred on a series of films based on the Harry Potter novel series by J.
Who owns the harry potter movie franchise. Rowling has become such a. Bought the movie rights for the first several books from JK. In a landmark deal that ranks among the largest movie franchise rights agreements of all time NBCUniversal has acquired exclusive rights.
And consists of eight fantasy films beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone 2001 and culminating with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 2011. Katie Leung who played Cho Chang in the Harry Potter franchise is opening up about alleged racists comments aimed at her while she was working on the film series. The Harry Potter franchise is now one of the best-known and most commercially successful franchises in the world.
Mr Gehrke said the franchise is in a league of its own when it comes to the kind of success it has had. Currently owns the rights to the Potter franchise and wanted to hold on to them according to the Wall Street Journal which first reported this story. Chang in the Harry Potter franchise.
Tom Ascheim the president of Warner Bros. A spin-off prequel series that will consist of five films started with Fantastic Beasts and Where to. Based in part on the performance of Fantastic Beasts which opens in November the paper said.
NBCUniversal acquired the rights to the Harry Potter movies including the Fantastic Beasts movies for a seven-year TV deal beginning in 2018. RowlingThe films have been in production since 2000 and in that time ten films have been producedeight are adaptations of the Harry Potter novels and two are part of the Fantastic. One of the magical things about the Harry Potter films is that through the 10 years of filming eight movies pretty much all of the characters retained the same actors throughout the entirety of.
Realizing the yet-untapped potential for the Harry Potter series Warner Bros. Kids Young Adults and Classics will now also oversee the Potter franchise and the Wizarding. Knowing what goes on in business however this could change in the future.
It is down to the success of this franchise that JK. Leung did not specify whether the publicists were her own or Warner Bros. Harry Potter star Katie Leung speaks out about the racist abuse she endured when she was cast as Cho Chang in the movie franchise.
Ascheim also serves as the president of kids. Test your Harry Potter knowledge Join us on Messenger face the Sorting Hat and take our. Harry Potter is a film series based on the eponymous novels by J.
Katie Leung revealed that she was told as a teenager to pretend that racist attacks hurled at her during her involvement in the Harry Potter franchise. RowlingThe series is distributed by Warner Bros. The Walt Disney Co.
As of writing the Wizarding World franchise is still owned by the Warner Bros. NBCUniversal announced Monday that they had acquired the rights to all of the films in JK. The Harry Potter franchise is getting a little bigger.
Pictures the studio behind the Harry Potter franchise. With my own eyes. Declined to comment when contacted for this story.
Entertainment a subsidiary owned by the entertainment conglomerate Warner Media whose parents company since 2018 is ATT. Its much weaker reviews will likely lead to shorter legs but even so it should still have no problem getting to 600 million worldwide and becoming Warner Bros. Those rights are currently held by Walt Disney Co.
Rowlings Wizarding World franchise which includes not just the eight Harry Potter. The deal could be worth as much as 250 million to Warner Bros. The actor who played Cho Chang says that her casting in the franchise sparked online abuse and her publicists urged her to ignore it.
The film had the best opening in the Harry Potter franchise in 21 markets but overall it was only 3 ahead of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in the same markets. Rowling for around 2 million in 1999. The Wizarding World previously known as J.
Updated Jun 25 2019 Harry Potter is coming to television.
