“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” Warner Bros. Rowling is generally considered the richest author in the world, with her net worth often being estimated at or around the $1 billion mark. Recent children’s books “The Ickabog” and “The Christmas Pig” both spent multiple months on the New York Times Bestseller list of middle-grade hardcovers. Still, Rowling is not exactly being excluded either. The increase was not unique to Rowling: young-adult fiction sales spiked over 30 percent between 20 as people turned to books during the COVID pandemic. The 2021-22 sales were up a whopping 36 percent from the same 12 months in 2019-2020. between April 2021 and March 2022, up 9.3 percent from from the same timeframe a year prior (3.29 million copies sold), according to data from NPD BookScan. Rowling’s books sold 3.6 million copies in the U.S. And they’ve all continued to cash in on the Potter brand as the books, movies, and theme parks remain popular. Scholastic offered support for both Rowling’s free speech rights and the rights of the queer community. and Universal Parks & Resorts offered non-specific statements about diversity and inclusion. The price Rowling paid was this: Radcliffe and Eddie Redmayne were among the “Potter” stars who condemned her views within hours of the essay’s publication. “But endlessly unpleasant as its constant targeting of me has been, I refuse to bow down to a movement that I believe is doing demonstrable harm in seeking to erode ‘woman’ as a political and biological class and offering cover to predators like few before it.” I was transphobic, I was a cunt, a bitch, a TERF, I deserved cancelling, punching and death,” Rowling wrote in the essay. “I spoke up about the importance of sex and have been paying the price ever since. Katherine Waterston, Eddie Redmayne in “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” Warner Bros. That’s when she went all in, publishing a lengthy essay where she discussed her years-long interest in researching trans issues and highlighted five reasons why she’s worried about “the new trans activism.” That activism, of centering womanhood around identity rather than reproductive organs or chromosomes, is in Rowling’s view part of the same misogynistic society that allowed Donald Trump to become president - despite remarks like the infamous “grab ’em by the pussy” one he peddled off-camera to “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush. The Rowling controversy started with a liked tweet in March 2018, built to one penned by the author herself in December 2019, and reached a crescendo in June 2020. When people choose to double down, they have to do it all-in, but it often comes at a cost.” “She could have apologized, taken accountability, and slowly faded away. “The double-down is one of the riskiest crisis responses from someone who is being heavily invested in, especially by a movie studio, because is forced to have an opinion,” crisis PR expert Molly McPherson told IndieWire. This weekend, Rowling faces her first box-office test since going public with her views and the question remains of how enthusiastic younger generations - and their parents - are about embracing Harry Potter. That Rowling is able to maintain such strong opinions often viewed as unfavorable - especially in the liberal Hollywood community - while continuing to rake in many millions of dollars likely speaks to the ability of the Harry Potter brand to stand on its own. Rowling’s Anti-Trans Comments: ‘She’s Entitled to Her Opinion’ Her reach there also remains remarkably steady: Rowling has had about 14 million followers since early February 2018.īrian Cox Defends J.K. Rowling’s Twitter feed remains an endlessly scrolling anti-gender theory compendium. sales of Rowling’s books increased over the last few years, and the two previous “Fantastic Beasts” movies have over-performed on streaming. Two years on, the Rowling business remains great for her publisher Scholastic, Universal’s Harry Potter theme parks, and Warner Bros., which is releasing the latest Potter-adjacent movie, “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” on Friday. The writer’s comments about trans women using women’s bathrooms and young people receiving gender-affirming health care have drawn the ire of everyone from GLAAD and Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, and led Rowling to conclude in June 2020 that she had become the victim of “cancellation.”īut the facts may not bear that out. Rowling rose to fame as the author of the best-selling book series of all-time, “Harry Potter,” but recently she’s been known as something else: a TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist).
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