Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Release Date: Friday, November 18, 2016 Nationwide

Samantha Morton, J.K. Rowling, Zoe Kravitz, Eddie Redmayne, David Yates, Katherine Waterston, Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell, David Heyman, Dan Fogler, Carmen Ejogo, Steve Kloves, Gemma Chan, Alison Sudol, Jenn Murray, Faith Wood-Blagrove

Set in New York roughly seven decades before Harry Potter’s saga starts, Fantastic Beasts is based on the Hogwarts textbook of the same name and follows the adventures of its author, Newt Scamander

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Set in New York roughly seven decades before Harry Potter’s saga starts, Fantastic Beasts is based on the Hogwarts textbook of the same name and follows the adventures of its author, Newt Scamander

Plot

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Plot
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident…were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.
Cited as official plot version from warnerbros.com
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The film's director David Yates last directed Pain Hustlers and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. The film's writer J.K. Rowling last wrote Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Director
David Yates
Screenwriter
Producers
David Heyman
Steve Kloves

Additional Information

MPA Rating
PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned for some fantasy action violence
Runtime
2 hrs, 12 m
Tagline
From J.K. Rowling's wizarding world.
Also known as
Not available
Language
English

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Key Facts

  • POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Features a cameo by a young Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grendelwald, characters from the original Harry Potter movies (Warner Bros, 10/13/16).
  • Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be a five-film franchise (Warner Bros, 10/13/16).
  • Collaborating with director David Yates behind the scenes are: Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It, the Sherlock Holmes movies), three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig (The English Patient, Dangerous Liaisons, Gandhi, the Harry Potter films), three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (Chicago, Memoirs of a Geisha, Alice in Wonderland), Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Tim Burke (Gladiator, the Harry Potter films), Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Christian Manz (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows).
  • The film is being produced by David Heyman, producer of all eight of the blockbuster Harry Potter features.
  • Marking the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, the script was inspired by her character Newt Scamander’s Hogwarts textbook, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
  • Being directed by David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter feature films.
  • Besides Newt Scamander, there are four other main roles
  • Newt Scamander is described as a “magiczoologist,” which in the Harry Potter realm is a person who studies magical creatures.
  • The first installment of the new Harry Potter spinoff franchise, which is being planned as a trilogy.
  • Spun-off from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).
  • Based on her book "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," which was inspired by Harry Potter's Hogwarts textbook.

Production Updates

Completed

The film was tagged as Completed.

Post-Production

The film was tagged as Post-Production.

Production

The film was tagged as Production. Filming started August 17, 2015 at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. Some scenes were also shot on location in Liverpool, England.

Development

The film was tagged as Development.

Announced

The film was tagged as Announced. Warner Bros. is working on a film based on a Harry Potter-themed spin-off.

Release Dates

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released in nationwide movie theaters on Friday, November 18, 2016 . There were 9 other movies released on the same date, including Bleed For This, The Edge of Seventeen and Nocturnal Animals. Additional information: 3D/2D; IMAX.



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