A new Harry Potter ride! A new Batman suit! A new X-Men mutant (Channing Tatum)!

It’s a big week for “Harry Potter” fans:

• The new ride opening in July at Universal Orlando now has a name,

, says The Associated Press. It includes a 60-foot dragon atop Gringotts Wizarding Bank, a labyrinth of vaults and a marble hall with goblins. Your mission: Retrieve a magical object to defeat Lord Voldemort.

• The spinoff movie “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” which takes place 70 years before Harry enters Hogwarts, now has a release date, Nov. 18, 2016. Author J.K. Rowling is writing the screenplay.

Director Zack Snyder

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in there?) and his new ride in “Batman vs. Superman.” Fans say it all looks more like Frank Miller’s “Dark Knight Returns” comic than any Christopher Nolan film. The movie, set for May 6, 2016, brings back the stars of “Man of Steel,” including Henry Cavill as Superman and Amy Adams as Lois Lane, and introduces Jesse Eisenberg as bad guy Lex Luthor.

A week before “X-Men: Days of Future Past” opens, filmmakers reveal that

The Hollywood Reporter

, he’ll get his own spinoff soon after. “He’s a rascal, just like Remy LeBeau, and he can handle the action, we all know that,” producer Lauren Shuler Donner says. “He’ll be great for Gambit, and he’s a Southerner, too. He’s not from New Orleans (he’s from Alabama), but he is a Southerner, and he understands that world.”

Variety

This story was originally published May 14, 2014 at 4:40 PM with the headline "A new Harry Potter ride! A new Batman suit! A new X-Men mutant (Channing Tatum)!."