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How the ‘Now You See Me’ Films Pulled Off a Box-Office Magic Trick

Minutes into the forthcoming film Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, a troupe of wily magicians filch a vest-clad finance bro’s solid gold iPhone and redistribute his crypto fortune to the audience at ...
Digital Spy

Tricks are magic on Five

The stars of Monkey Magic are returning to Five this Sunday to present a new series celebrating the world's best magicians and their greatest tricks, stunts and escapes. Ali Cook ('Monkey Boy'), Pete ...
Publishers Weekly

Little Box of Wizard Tricks: Over 50 Tricks to Amaze Your Friends

The sturdy trunk-like Little Box of Wizard Tricks: Over 80 Tricks to Amaze Your Friends by Janet Sacks stores eight mini hardcover books and supplies-a deck of cards, magic number disks, three small ...
Los Angeles Times

Justin Willman reveals how he turns magic skeptics into believers: ‘The trick itself is never enough’

Even in the daytime, the most hallowed ground inside the Magic Castle in Hollywood has a way of casting a spell on hard-nosed cynics who might normally consider themselves immune to the art of ...
Berkshire Eagle

Bernard A. Drew: Magician Harrington’s Indian box trick drew crowds everywhere — except Pittsfield, apparently

One of New England’s earliest professional magicians, Jonathan Harrington (1809-1881) began his on-the-road career as a ventriloquist “superior to anything we have ever before seen,” New England ...
The New York Times

Sawing Someone in Half Never Gets Old. Even at 100.

The classic illusion is still with us, a century after its first performance. By Alex Marshall Illustrations by Nolan Pelletier January 29, 2021 LONDON — On Jan. 17, 1921, the magician P.T. Selbit ...