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| Fantastic Beasts | |
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| Directed by | David Yates |
| Screenplay by | J. K. Rowling Steve Kloves |
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| Cinematography | Philippe Rousselot (1–2) George Richmond (3) |
| Edited by | Mark Day |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date | 2016–2022 [1][2][3] |
| Countries | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | Total (3 films) $575 million |
| Box office | Total (3 films) $1.865 billion[4] |
Fantastic Beasts is a film series directed by David Yates and a spin-off prequel to the Harry Potter novel and film series. The series is distributed by Warner Bros and consists of three fantasy films, beginning with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and following with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).[5][6] Following the 2001–11 film series directly adapting the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts marks the second film series in the Wizarding World shared universe media franchise.[7]
Rowling wrote the original screenplays for each film, with the Harry Potter film series scriptwriter, Steve Kloves returning for the rewriting of the third film, The Secrets of Dumbledore, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The main story arc following Albus Dumbledore and his agents' quest — principally, Newt Scamander during his magical creature-saving safaris — to overcome Gellert Grindelwald, his lost love, as the First Wizarding War and Second World War approach.[8]
It stars Eddie Redmayne as the leading character: Newt Scamander, with Jude Law portraying Albus Dumbledore and with Colin Farrell, Johnny Depp, and Mads Mikkelsen (replacing Depp in the third film) all portraying the third leading character: antagonist Gellert Grindelwald. Also starring are Ezra Miller, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Victoria Yeates, Jessica Williams, Callum Turner, and Richard Coyle .[9]
Production of the series was led by David Heyman of Heyday Films, taking over six years, extended because of the pandemic crisis. The Fantastic Beasts series has been commercially very successful, having collectively grossed well over US$1.8 billion across three films, much more than three times budgeted costs. The first film received positive reviews, while the later two films have received ambivalent mixed reviews, with some critics deeming the series to be inferior to the Harry Potter films.
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