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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Friday, November 18, 2016 Nationwide
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Plot: What's the story about?
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.
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Who stars in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Cast List
Eddie Redmayne ... Newt Scamander
Les Misérables, Jupiter Ascending
Katherine Waterston ... Tina / Porpentina
They Listen, Mid90s
Ezra Miller ... Credence
The Flash, Madame Bovary
Alison Sudol ... Queenie
The Last Full Measure, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Dan Fogler ... Jacob
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Love Happens
Samantha Morton ... Mary Lou
John Carter, She Said
Jenn Murray ... Chastity
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
Faith Wood-Blagrove ... Modesty
Colin Farrell ... Graves
The Penguin (series), Pride and Glory
Cuckoo, The Creator
Dolittle, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
Kin, After Earth
Who's making Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Crew List
A look at the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them behind-the-scenes crew and production team. 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.
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Production: What we know about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?
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.
Filming Timeline
- 2016 - October: The film was set to Completed status.
- 2016 - January: The film was set to Post-Production status.
- 2015 - August: The film was set to Production status.
Filming started August 17, 2015 at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. Some scenes were also shot on location in Liverpool, England.
- 2014 - August: The film was set to Development status.
- 2013 - September: The film was set to Announced status.
Warner Bros. is working on a film based on a Harry Potter-themed spin-off.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Release Date: When was the film released?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was a Nationwide release in 2016 on Friday, November 18, 2016. There were 9 other movies released on the same date, including The Edge of Seventeen, Bleed For This and Nocturnal Animals. Additional information: 3D/2D; IMAX.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them DVD & Blu-ray Release Date: When was the film released?
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released on DVD & Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 28, 2017 .