HBO’s “Harry Potter” stars Dominic McLaughlin and Nick Frost.
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Dominic McLaughlin and Nick Frost, who will star as Harry Potter and Rubeus Hagrid in HBO and HBO Max’s upcoming Harry Potter TV series, are co-stars in the new family movie, Grow, which open in theaters this week.
HBO is producing the new Harry Potter show, which is being adapted from best-selling author J.K. Rowling’s iconic book series. Several of the principal characters for the series have already been cast, including McLaughlin, Alistair Stout and Arabella Stanton as Harry, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Frost as Hagrid, John Lithgow as Albus Dumbledore, Janet McTeer as Minerva McGonagall, Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape, and Johnny Flynn and Lox Pratt as Lucius and Draco Malfoy.
While an exact release date has not yet been announced by HBO and HBO Max for the new Harry Potter series, viewers anxious to get a peek at McLaughlin and Frost’s work together will get it with the release of the new family movie Grow, which opens in theaters on Friday.
According to the film’s distributor, Fathom Entertainment, Grow will open in theaters nationwide on Friday, Oct. 17, and will play for one week only, through Thursday, Oct. 23.
Directed by John McPhail and also starring Golda Rosheuvel, Priya-Rose Brookwell and Jeremy Swift, Grow is rated PG.
What Is ‘Grow’ About?
Per Fathom Entertainment, the official summary for Grow partially reads, “Welcome to the pumpkin capital of the world, where the pumpkins are epic, the rivalries are fierce, and the competition is anything but garden variety.
“Dinah Little (Golda Rosheuvel), a no-nonsense farmer with a tough-as-a-pumpkin exterior, reluctantly takes in her abandoned niece, Charlie (Priya-Rose Brookwell). Dinah is not quick to affection, and Charlie is not one for sitting still. So, she throws her into farm life, sleeves rolled up and hands in the dirt.
“Then comes the town’s biggest spectacle, the annual pumpkin-growing contest, a Halloween season tradition that brings out wild stunts, eccentric characters, and record-setting drama. But Charlie has something no one else does, a special knack for connecting with plants that quietly reflects her own longing to feel just as seen and loved.
Dominic McLaughlin, Golda Rosheuvel, Nick Frost and Priya-Rose Brookwell in “Grow.”
Fathom Entertainment
“But as both pumpkin and plot thicken, and rival growers pull every trick in the book, will Charlie and Dinah’s unlikely entry stand tall against the fiercest competition the town has ever seen?”
Dominic McLaughlin stars as Oliver in Grow, while Nick Frost plays Arlo and Jeremy Swift plays Mr. Gregory.
Grow opens in theaters nationwide on Friday.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2025/10/13/movie-starring-new-harry-potter-and-hagrid-actors-opening-in-theaters-this-week/
