Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - November 18
With nearly $8 billion in worldwide box office grosses, the Harry Potter movies are one of the most lucrative film franchises of all time—and while Harry’s saga has reached its conclusion, it came as no surprise that Warner Bros. would want to keep filmgoers coming back to author J.K. Rowling’s world of wizardry indefinitely. Enter Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel/spinoff that takes place 70 years before the events of the Potter series and focuses on the adventures of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), a wizard whose trip to America is thrown into disarray when a group of magical creatures escape from confinement. If the studio has its way, we’re looking at the start of “at least” a trilogy.