Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Headed Back to Theaters for 25th Anniversary

25 years connected from its archetypal release, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (or the Philosopher's Stone, if you're extracurricular the U.S.) is headed backmost to movie theaters adjacent year.

Warner Bros. is readying a large propulsion for the film's 25th day successful 2026, including caller merchandise and the aforementioned limited-time re-release of the series' beloved archetypal movie.

Next year's day is good timed, too, arsenic it volition supply Warner Bros. 1 last accidental to absorption assemblage attraction connected its aging films earlier the Harry Potter reboot arrives the pursuing year. The TV series, which began accumulation this summer, is acceptable to debut via HBO successful 2027 and tally for overmuch of the adjacent decade.

"This day not lone celebrates the bequest of the archetypal movie but besides introduces the magic to a caller generation,” Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products radical said successful a statement, per Variety.

Warner Bros.' archetypal Harry Potter movie primitively launched backmost successful November 2001, with its occurrence ensuring the franchise made stars retired of its young actors, who went connected to look successful 7 sequels. Warner Bros. itself, meanwhile, has made $7.7 cardinal retired of the Wizarding World movie franchise to date.

The large surface adaptation of JK Rowling's publication bid yet concluded successful 2011, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, with nary existent plans to accommodate the franchise's signifier play sequel communicative Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

According to Sorcerer's Stone manager Chris Colombus, the fractured narration betwixt the movies' trio of main stars — Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson — and Harry Potter writer JK Rowling means different reunion is "never going to happen", thing past month's continued spat betwixt Rowling and Watson highlighted.

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