Fantastic Beasts

The latest Wizarding World movie may be an improvement, but it doesn't do much to elevate the 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise.

Combined with the script’s placement of the beasts closer to the center of the narrative action, the creatures get to be more than just set pieces. Grindelwald’s influence is on the rise in the same way Lord Voldemort gained power in Order of the Phoenix. Fantastic Beasts 3 also harkens back to Dumbledore’s Army, with the Hogwarts professor assembling a small team of wizards and humans to face Grindelwald. In The Secrets of Dumbledore, the year is 1932 and it’s again time to pick the next leader of the wizarding world. It’s evident that Kloves treats this film as his own take on Order of the Phoenix. The Secrets of Dumbledore is a way to fill that writerly void and the two installments share a few things in common. While the Harry Potter author took a backseat role in the original run of movies, she penned the first two Fantastic Beasts scripts on her own to little critical acclaim. Whether Fantastic Beasts crumbles into ash or rises like a phoenix depends almost entirely on its third installment, The Secrets of Dumbledore.

'Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore' Looks To Spell Near $160M WW Total By Easter; 'Father Stu' Sees $1.6M Opening Day Box Office.

Sonic 2 came in ahead of its Sunday projection with a $72.1M opening; the pic is expected to ease 50% in weekend 2 with an estimated $36M. The film currently holds a 95% positive audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and received a 5-star PostTrak exit. On the heels of the openings of The Lost City, Morbius and Sonic the Hedgehog, that’s a great spring for recovering exhibitors. Outlook for the weekend over five days is $7M to possibly $10M. Abroad, 44 new markets this weekend including France, Italy, and Korea on Wednesday, followed by Brazil and Mexico on Thursday, are expected to deliver well north of $40M for the Burbank, CA lot. This is the first time the franchise is playing the spring having previously played November before. Meanwhile, Columbia Pictures looks to capitalize on the Christian holiday weekend with the Mark Wahlberg R-rated drama Father Stu, about an amateur boxer who eventually becomes a Catholic priest. Franchise-wise, after Fantastic Beasts 1 and 2 respectively opened to $74.4M and $62.1M, this installment is poised to play like a threequel, particularly coming off of the second film which earned a B+ CinemaScore in 2018. The stateside arrival of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, and further expansion abroad into 44 markets, arrives days after the Warner Bros. Discovery merger went public. Grindelwald pulled in 52% female, with 52% over 25. The Harry Potter franchise spinoff has always demonstrated its potency more so abroad than stateside, so look for the magic there. David Yates, who has directed all the Fantastic Beasts movies, and Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows 1 & 2, is natch behind this threequel, which after a $56.9 million start in 22 offshore markets last weekend is eyeing, thanks to Easter vacations, a near $77M overseas cume by EOD Thursday. Add in a global weekend projected haul of $80M, and it will take Dumbledore‘s worldwide cume to $157M by Sunday according to industry estimates.

Directed by David Yates, the cast includes Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore, and Mads Mikkelsen as Gellert Grindelwald. Ezra ...

This would follow the same release pattern as The Batman, which opened in theaters on March 4, and is coming to HBO Max on Monday, April 18. After 45 days in theaters, you will be able to stream Fantastic Beasts 3 on HBO Max. Read on for more details. This year, however, Warner Bros. theatrical movies will have a 45-day theaters-only run before moving to HBO Max.

The latest installment in the 'Harry Potter' universe sees Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore facing off against Mads Mikkelsen's Gellert Grindelwald.

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"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" are both streaming now on HBO Max and Peacock.

In the new Fantastic Beasts movie, which is my favorite one yet, Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) recruits an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one ...

Jessica Williams, Callum Turner, Fiona Glascott, Dan Fogler, Jude Law, and Eddie Redmayne in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.Courtesy of Warner Bros ...

The latest installment in the 'Harry Potter' universe sees Jude Law's Albus Dumbledore facing off against Mads Mikkelsen's Gellert Grindelwald.