Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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…