Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates. A joint British and American production, it is a spin-off of and prequel to the Harry Potter film series. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, and Colin Farrell. It premiered in New York City on 10 November 2016 and opened in theaters worldwide on 18 November 2016. The first sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released on 16 November 2018. A second sequel, as yet unnamed, was set to begin in spring 2020, with a projected release
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates. A joint British and American production, it is a spin-off of and prequel to the Harry Potter film series. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, and Colin Farrell. It premiered in New York City on 10 November 2016 and opened in theaters worldwide on 18 November 2016 in 3D, IMAX 3D 4K Laser, 4DX, and other large-format theaters. It received generally positive reviews from critics and emerged a commercial success after grossing USD 814 million worldwide, making it the eighth highest-grossing film of 2016. It was nominated for five BAFTAs, including Best British Film, and won for Best Production Design. The first sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, was released on 16 November 2018. A second sequel, as yet unnamed, was set to begin in spring 2020, with a projected release date in November 2021. On 16 March 2020, the same day shooting was to have begun, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted Warner Bros. to postpone the production. It is the first installment in the Fantastic Beasts film series, and ninth overall in the Wizarding World franchise that began with theHarry Potter films. In 1926, British wizard and \”magizoologist\” Newton \”Newt\” Scamander arrives in New.
York City. He encounters Mary Lou Barebone, the non-magical head of the New Salem Philanthropic Society, who preaches that witches and wizards are real and dangerous. Newt meets No-Maj Jacob Kowalski, an aspiring baker, and they unwittingly swap suitcases. Newt takes Jacob inside his suitcase, magically expanded to house various creatures including an Obscurus, a parasite that develops inside magically gifted children when their abilities are suppressed. Newt extracted it from a young girl who died, as those afflicted rarely live past the age of ten. Newt and Tina are sentenced to death, but escape aided by Queenie and Jacob, who retrieve Newt’s suitcase. The Director of Magical Security, Percival Graves, accuses Newt of conspiring with the infamous dark wizard Gellert Grindalwald, and decides to destroy his suitcase and obliviate Jacob’s recent memories. Credence finds a bed, which Mary Lou assumes is his, and is about to be punished when he is attacked by Graves, assuming Modesty is the Obscurus’ host, Squibes. Graves tries to calm him down, but he reveals he is the real host, having survived due to the intensity of his magic. Newt returns to the city in broad daylight, but is attacked in a subway tunnel by a human form. As Newt tries to convince him to listen to him, he returns to MACUSA, who lost her job trying to protect him.
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