Directed By: David Yates
Produced By: David Heyman, Steve Kloves, Lionel Wigram and J.K. Rowling
Based On The Novel By: J.K. Rowling
Screenplay By: J.K. Rowling
Executive Producers: Neil Blair, Tim Lewis and Rick Senat
Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Samantha Morton and Dan Fogler
Running Time: 141 minutes (2 hours, 21 minutes)
Ratings:
US: PG-13 (Some fantasy action violence)
UK: 12A
AU: M
Release Dates:
US: 18 November 2016
UK: 18 November 2016
AU: 17 November 2016
Worldwide Gross: $814,037,575 (source)
Critical Consensus: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them draws on Harry Potter‘s rich mythology to deliver a spinoff that dazzles with franchise-building magic all its own. (source)
Synopsis: In 1926, Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America for a meeting with an important official. At this meeting is a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt.
The situation threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations, which is already in a dangerous place, due to the threatening presence of the fanatical New Salem Philanthropic Society, an extremist organization dedicated to the eradication of wizard-kind. Newt battles to correct the mistake, and the horrors of the resultant increase in violence, fear, and tension felt between magical and non-magical people. Read more…
Posters
Trailers
Final trailer
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Teaser trailer
Cast photos
- Eddie Redmayne will play Newt Scamander
- Katherine Waterston will play Porpentina
- Alison Sudol will play Queenie
- Dan Fogler will play Jacob
- Colin Farrell will play Graves
- Jenn Murray will play Chastity
- Ezra Miller will play Credence
- Samantha Morton will play Mary Lou
- Carmen Ejogo will play Seraphina
- Ron Perlman will play Gnarlack
- Jon Voight will play Henry Shaw, Sr.
- Zoë Kravitz will play Leta Lestrange
- Johnny Depp will play Gellert Grindelwald
The beasts
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- Niffler
- Demiguise
- Billywig
- Swooping Evil
- Thunderbird
- Occamy
- Nundu
- Merpeople
- Graphorn
- Erumpent
- Bowtruckle