Director Chris Columbus at the London premiere of 'The Thursday Murder Club' on Aug. 21, 2025; J.K. Rowling at the Ascot Racecourse in Ascot, U.K., on June 20, 2025 "It's never going to happen," ...

Chris Columbus isn’t going back to Hogwarts. The filmmaker, who directed the first two “Harry Potter” movies and produced the third, shut down the possibility that he’s going to be involved in HBO’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chris Columbus has more to say about HBO’s Harry Potter remake. The director — who helmed the first two Warner Bros. films that ...

Chris Columbus directed the first two films in the generation-defining Harry Potter movie franchise, as well as produced the third movie, but he’s got no interest in working on HBO’s forthcoming ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Harry Potter director Chris Columbus says he has not spoken to author J.K. Rowling “in years,” and doesn’t agree with her controversial anti-trans political agenda. “I ...

The filmmaker, who directed the first two Harry Potter films, told Variety that he doesn’t agree with Rowling’s views and believes that the entire situation is “very sad” in general. “I like to ...

The author has been criticized for her outspoken comments against the trans rights movement. By Carly Thomas Senior Editor, Digital The filmmaker has previously expressed interest in a film adaptation ...

Chris Columbus, who directed 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 2002’s Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, doesn’t expect the films’ cast to reunite for related future projects. In ...

"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" (Credit: Warner Bros.) Chris Columbus recalled seeing a “haunted quality” in Daniel Radcliffe that convinced him the boy would be a perfect Harry Potter. While ...

Chris Columbus says a Harry Potter reunion with the original cast is "impossible" due to J.K. Rowling's identity politics. "Everyone in the cast has their own opinion," the filmmaker said. Rowling's ...

"Everyone in the cast has their own opinion," the filmmaker says, "which is different from her opinion." Harry Potter fans shouldn't get their hopes up for a Cursed Child movie. Chris Columbus, who ...