The Harry Potter ... were all part of the plot, as both allies and adversaries. All of those creatures—except for Hagrid’s Blast-Ended Skrewts—appear in the pages of Fantastic Beasts and ...

The movie tells the backstory of how young Newt Scamander came to know so much about all these ... so Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is a completely different thing from Fantastic Beasts.

Whereas the first “Fantastic Beasts” imagined J.K. Rowling ... is a darker and bolder film that intertwines different eras of the "Potter" mythology and delivers a more relevant cinematic ...

The beasts are starting to live up to their adjective. When the Harry Potter ... “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” wisely leaves the States for a more otherworldly London and ...

That’s lower than the opening weekends of all ... “Harry Potter” films. The second film in the “Fantastic Beasts” series will be set in another major world city with different magical ...

But it’s definitely not all-too-familiar – there isn’t a butterbeer or an owl in sight. “Fantastic Beasts” is “Harry Potter” with ... with different values and ideas, but who just ...