Get out your crocheted Christmas sweaters and sit at home in front of the TV with a cup of piping hot Butterbeer – because the entire ‘Harry Potter’ series with all eight films is back with a subscription Amazon Prime Video. This literally calls for a well-crafted fantasy marathon that will send you into the pre-Christmas season with plenty of magical Hogwarts moments and a healthy dose of nostalgia.
For example, if you start this weekend with the first two parts ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ and ‘Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets’ and watch two more films from the successful series every weekend, Are you ready for Christmas Eve with your family’s adventures? Daniel Radcliffe embodied favorite sorcerer’s apprentice.
And if you still don’t have enough, there are still plans for the Christmas holidays all three parts of the “Fantastic animals‘spin-offs are available on Amazon Prime Video (Part 3 has been available there for a long time, parts 1 and 2 are new in the streaming subscription). Is there a greater Christmas gift for Potterheads? Well, maybe only with new announcements from the Wizarding World…
The wizarding world of “Harry Potter” never ends
After the original “Harry Potter” series concluded in 2011 with “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2,” there are currently no more films planned in the era of the famous sorcerer’s apprentice. Instead, the novels are of JK Rowling is being re-adapted into a series for the American streaming service Max, with each book having its own season. Over the course of ten years, seven fresh seasons of ‘Harry Potter’ await us from 2025, in which young faces follow in the footsteps of Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.
The ‘Fantastic Beasts’ series is set as a prequel to the original ‘Potter’ series and was originally intended to consist of five films. After the rather mediocre success of the last part “Fantastic Beasts 3: Dumbledore’s Secrets” about the magizoologist Newt Scamader (Eddie Redmayne) and wizarding legend Albus Dumbledore (Judas Law) in its prime, other installments of the ‘Animals’ series are currently on hold. While director David Yates assured that the wands will likely be waved here again one day, the filmmaker, like the Wizarding World, has other priorities at the moment.
The Wizarding World is one of the ten largest media empires in the world with revenues exceeding $32 billion. what the movies “Potter” and “Beasts” say but “only” amounts to $9.58 billion. Additional revenue comes from merchandising products, the play ‘Cursed Child’, international exhibitions and video games – including the much-discussed ‘Hogwarts Legacy’, which was released this year. In terms of cinema alone, the ‘Harry Potter’ universe is the third most successful franchise of all time, behind the MCU and ‘Star Wars’. In the fantasy genre, the magical world of Harry and Co. still undefeated to this day.