J.K. Rowling Crushes Your Dreams of a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Movie Trilogy

Curses!

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling took to Twitter Friday to deny rumors that a Harry Potter and the Cursed Child movie trilogy was in the works. She had co-written the play by the same name, set 19 years after the events in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final installment in the hit book and film series. The production opened in London in 2016. The project's script was published as well.

"I know a lot of people are looking for reasons to be cheerful today, but there is NO TRUTH to the rumour about a #CursedChild movie trilogy!" she wrote.

The Harry Potter and the Cursed Child play depicts Harry Potter as a father of three and an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic. As he is haunted by memories of his past, his youngest son Albus struggles with the weight of his family's legacy. None of the Harry Potter film stars appeared in the production.

Last week, theme park journalist and historian Jim Hill signaled on the Unofficial Universal Orlando Podcast that a "trilogy of movies that will be based on Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was in the works.

He also said Warner Bros. had had "conversations" with original stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint "'cause they want this to be, for lack of a better term, Harry Potter: The Force Awakens," per Screen Rant.

Hill later responded to Rowling's denial via Twitter, saying that while he has "great respect" for her and would not "dispute" what she posted, he was quoting info from a source "on the Warner Bros. side of the fence."

"Given what my source here has told me in the past...I'm very confident that what he told me about a Cursed Child film trilogy being talked about at Warners as something that will go into production after the five-part Fantastic Beasts film series wraps," he said.

Warner Bros. released Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, the first movie in a five-part spinoff series, last year. It made more than $802 million worldwide. The eight-part Harry Potter series made more than $7.72 million.

Rumors about the making of just one Harry Potter and the Cursed Child movie began last year. Rowling denied the reports on Twitter in February when a fan asked about them.

In August, The New York Daily News quoted Hollywood sources as saying Warner Bros. was working on obtaining the rights to bring the new sequel story to the big screen as soon as 2010. The studio later said in a statement, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a stage play, with no plans for there to be a film."

In December 2016, Warner Bros. Entertainment filed to trademark the title Harry Potter and the Cursed Child for merchandising purposes.

As for the idea of other Harry Potter sequels, Rowling told Reuters last July that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child would not herald a new phase of stories.

"Harry is done now," she said.

Queen Elizabeth II's Granddaughter Zara Tindall Suffers Miscarriage

Zara Tindall, Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter, has suffered a miscarriage while pregnant with her and husband Mike Tindall's second baby, a spokesperson for the couple said Saturday, Christmas Eve.

The two had announced her pregnancy three weeks ago, saying they were set to welcome their new child in the spring. The baby was to be the queen's sixth great-grandchild.

"Very sadly, Zara and Mike Tindall have lost their baby," the couple's spokesperson said in a statement. "At this difficult time, we ask that everyone respects their privacy."

Buckingham Palace declined to comment on a private matter.

Zara, a 35-year-old champion equestrian who made her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games, and Mike, a 38-year-old former England rugby player, were last seen in public Tuesday, in a car en route to a Christmas lunch the queen hosted for her Royal family members at Buckingham Palace in London.

Zara and Mike have been married since 2011 and share daughter Mia Grace Tindall, 2.

Zara is 16th in line to the British throne. Her mother is Anne, Princess Royal, the queen's daughter and second of her four children. Anne's older brother is Prince Charles, William and Harry's father and first in line to the throne.

Selena Gomez Reveals Her Bizarre Secret to Staying Healthy and Why She Envies Blake Lively

Selena Gomez is back and feeling better than ever.

In fact, in one of her first online interviews since returning from rehab, the singer chatted with Elle magazine and revealed what she's been doing to feel healthier, including one very bizarre treatment.

"I'm horrible at discipline when it comes to working out," she admitted, "So I've been working with my trainer Amy Rosoff Davis for a year now, and when we started the tour, I really wanted to keep it up. I wanted to be healthy; I wanted to feel good. I just wanted to make sure I was the best I could be for the show and for my fans."

Thus, Davis ended up hitting the road with Gomez during her most recent tour, making sure she keeps up her daily routine.

"We'll do hikes. We have a Pilates machine," the singer revealed. "I have a sweat bed, which looks like a burrito that I wrap myself up in, and I sweat for about 45 minutes. Just little things to kind of keep me healthy and keep me focused."

Yes, you read that right...a sweat bed!

"You lay in these beds in a sweatsuit, and they wrap you up and you sweat for 45 minutes and it releases all the toxins of your body," she explained. "I know it sounds gross, but you just sit in your sweat for an hour and don't immediately shower because there's natural collagen in your toxins that it actually makes your skin feel softer before you wash it all off. It feels incredible."

She added, "It's changed my skin, it's kind of changed my body as well, so it feels really good. That's kind of been something that works for me personally."

Another thing that helps her feel her best is staying away from makeup when she can. "I just can't understand when—and no offense—people have to wear makeup all the time."

Katy Perry Dancing to Kanye West's ''Famous'' Taylor Swift Lyric Is the Shade You Never Knew You Wanted

Guess that bad blood isn't going to go away anytime soon.

The notorious feud between singers Katy Perry and Taylor Swift was refueled last night when Katy shared a video that got fans buzzing. The birthday girl, who rang in the big 3-2 yesterday, ended her celebratory day with the Kanye West concert in Los Angeles, and we're not sure if you're aware, but Yeezy has one song in particular that revolves around a one Taylor Swift.

Oh, OK, cool. You've heard of it.

Now, sure, that beat is catchy, and it's already gained enough traction that you'd find yourself swaying to the beat regardless of any personal feelings you have towards the song. But given the history between Perry and Swift, it was especially interesting to watch her dance along to that particular lyric.

A video from Katy's Instagram story, which was graciously shared on Twitter by a fan, shows the singer dancing to 'Ye rapping and then opening her eyes wide and getting up close to the camera when he yells, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, why? I made that bitch famous!"

Oh, the subtle shade.

After giving the internet something to talk about, Katy went on to enjoying the show with a hot dog, some dancing with Halsey and even got courageous and went into the pit.

Perry began her special day with a massage and some bacon cake for breakfast, followed by putting in her early vote for Hillary Clinton and receiving a "fuzzy vagina" as a gift from her Goddess Box. Yep, you read that right.

As for her tumultuous relationship with frenemy Swift, the two seem to still be on the outs for reasons that continue to be somewhat of a mystery.

Perry and T. Swift have been in an alleged feud for a couple of years now since Perry allegedly tried to "sabotage" the "Style" songstress' tour by taking some of her backup dancers. But, Perry dropped somewhat of a bombshell in September when she tweeted back to a fan saying she'd collab with Swift if she apologizes. BUT FOR WHAT?!

And it doesn't seem like that apology has been made. The two stars found themselves in closed quarters over the weekend, when they both attended Drake's birthday party at Delilah's in Los Angeles.

We're told the two didn't interact at all. And to make things even more interesting, their ex-boyfriend John Mayer (yes, he dated both of them) was also there. A source told E! News Katy and John mingled and were friendly, but Taylor didn't talk to either of them.

We guess subtle shade will continue to be their preferred communication.

Gucci's frenzied fashion is like an explosion inside a fairytale

At the entrance to a disused Milanese train depot repurposed for the afternoon as a fairytale boudoir (plush seating cubes in buttoned pink velvet, strip-bar glitter curtains, a throaty undertone of dry ice), each guest arriving for the Gucci catwalk show was handed a pink piece of paper. On it was printed a quote by Vladimir Nabokov: “Literature was not born the day a boy crying ‘wolf, wolf’ came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big grey wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying ‘wolf, wolf’ and there was no wolf behind him.”

Alessandro Michele, Gucci’s creative director, likes to layer several characters into an outfit – he himself was dressed for the show in a distinctive Renaissance-biker style that the New Yorker said in a recent profile suggested “a dandy who had run off to join the Hell’s Angels”. And he chose this quote to convey several points.

First, that imagination is essential. (“All of my fashion is an illusion,” he said after the show.)

Second, that Gucci is as much about fairytale as it is about reality. (Many of Michele’s dresses, with their pineapple-top fronds of organza and elaborate embroidery, look as if they might have been conjured into life by Cinderella’s fairy godmother, or stitched by the bluebirds in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.)

Third, that stars can be born from unlikely places: the boy who cried wolf, the villain of the tale, becomes a hero from Nabokov’s point of view.

This is Michele’s fourth season as the golden boy of Milan fashion week, having been plucked from the relative obscurity of the design room. The success he has brought to Gucci – sales of womenswear have risen 66% this year – is particularly notable, being in stark contrast to the ailing fortunes of Prada and Armani.

Fashion tires of its new discoveries fast. But Michele remains compelling partly because although his manner is warm and engaging – the virtual free-for-all backstage is unusual in strictly controlled Milan – he remains an intriguingly unknowable figure. He segues from dense cultural theorising (he mentioned French intellectual Roger Caillois in discussions about this show, as well as German author Elias Canetti) into raptures about his latest best friend, Elton John (“I love Elton! He is amazing! Like a … firework!”).

The stage set for this show had the scent and colour of a seedy nightclub, but a soundtrack of William Blake’s poetry recited over a choral backdrop. Channels of white light beaming down as if from high windows gave it an alternate identity as a sacred space. Michele, who in June staged the first ever show to take place in Westminster Abbey, has said he is not religious, but is drawn to places of worship because “you can feel the power of the people who were inside to express themselves, or to ask for something”.

What makes Michele’s commercial revival of Gucci all the more extraordinary is that, in contrast to the straightforwardly glamorous clothes of the Tom Ford era, the aesthetic is a long way from the mainstream. An endless lineup of clashing sugary pastels, crammed together like the ice-cream trays in a Milanese gelateria, were whipped into a frenzy on the catwalk with the help of disco lurex, cricket-jumper trims, embroidered animals and cryptic legends in gothic fonts. Accessories – the cash cows of any luxury brand – were no less eccentric, with pearl-studded platform sandals and regal handbags hoisted into backpacks by wide satin ribbons.