Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an upcoming British-American fantasy action drama directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling (in her screenwriting debut), based on Rowling's book of the same name. A spin-off and a prequel of the Harry Potter film series, the film will be the first installment of a series of five films, and the tenth overall installment in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World (including the stage play The Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2,) a new entertainment brand and cinematic universe founded by Rowling and acquired by Warner Bros., showcasing different genres, and depicting different cultures, decades, political troubles, and wars in various Wizarding societies around the globe. It stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler,Alison Sudol, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Samantha Morton, Ezra Miller, Ron Perlman and Jon Voight. Principal photography commenced on 17 August 2015, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is scheduled to be released worldwide on 18 November 2016 in the 3D, IMAX 4K Laser and other large format theatres. In Argentina, Brazil and Portugal the movie will be released one day earlier, on 17 November 2016.

Directed by : David Yates

Produced by :

• David Heyman
• J. K. Rowling
• Steve Kloves
• Lionel Wigram

Written by : J. K. Rowling

Based on : Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J. K. Rowling

Cast :

• Eddie Redmayne
• Katherine Waterston
• Dan Fogler
• Alison Sudol
• Ezra Miller
• Samantha Morton
• Jon Voight
• Carmen Ejogo
• Colin Farrell

Music by : James Newton Howard

Cinematography : Philippe Rousselot

Edited by : Mark Day

Production company : Heyday Films

Distributed by : Warner Bros. Pictures

Release dates : 18 November 2016

Synopsis

There are growing dangers in the wizarding world of 1926 New York. Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the Second Salemers, a fanatical faction of No-Majs (American for Muggles) bent on eradicating them. And the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, after wreaking havoc in Europe, has slipped away and is now nowhere to be found.

Unaware of the rising tensions, Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures, some of which are safeguarded in the hidden pocket-dimensions of his deceptively nondescript leather case. But potential disaster strikes when unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of Newt’s beasts loose in a city already on edge—a serious breach of the Statute of Secrecy that former Auror Tina Goldstein jumps on, seeing her chance to regain her post. However, things take an ominous turn when Percival Graves, the enigmatic Director of Magical Security at MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), casts his suspicions on both Newt and Tina.

Now allied, Newt and Tina, together with Tina’s sister, Queenie, and their new No-Maj friend, Jacob, form a band of unlikely heroes, who must recover Newt’s missing beasts before they come to harm. But the stakes are higher than these four outsiders—now branded fugitives—ever imagined, as their mission puts them on a collision course with dark forces that could push the Wizarding and No-Maj worlds to the brink of war.

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