Watch How They Made the Thunderbird, Obscurus & More in This Fantastic Beasts VFX Breakdown
It takes a small army (or sometimes a middle-sized one) to make a film like Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. When you have a wizard losing a briefcase full of magical creatures in Jazz age New York City, you’re going to need a really good visual effects company. Thankfully for Warner Bros., director David Yates and his ...
Jude Law Joins Fantastic Beasts 2 Cast
It’s been nearly 20 years since the magic of Harry Potter first wowed fans, and even now, the excitement keeps on flying in. President and CCO of Warner Bros. Pictures Toby Emmerich announced today that two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law will take on the role of young Albus Dumbledore in the second installment of Harry ...
See how Visual Artists Created Those Fantastic Beasts
It’s no big secret that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them utilizes a fair bit of computer generated effects. Over 20 “fantastic beasts” alone were featured in the film, and that doesn’t even begin to take into account the magical effects and large-scale scenery. Even after considering all three of those categories, it’s still ...
Big Things Ahead for Fantastic Beasts Franchise
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opened this past weekend to positive reviews and over $200 million in box office revenue worldwide. While more Harry Potter lovers are sure to hit their local theater this holiday season, J.K. Rowling and others involved behind the scenes of the new franchise are discussing its' future—and it's ...
Production Designer Stuart Craig on Fantastic Beasts and How They Came to Be
In Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Hogwarts graduate Newt (Eddie Redmayne) crashes his way through New York in 1926, fresh off a steamer ship from London, in hot pursuit of his various ill-trained magical beasts, whom he just can’t seem to keep trapped in a suitcase. After the case gets accidentally swapped with ...
Two new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Clip Follow Positive Early Reviews
The early reviews for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them are in, and they’re very good. Currently sitting at 100% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the first film to be scripted by J.K. Rowling herself is being hailed as “sheer magic” by Newsday’s Rafer Guzman, a surprisingly dark origin story that will appear more to ...
Dumbledore and Depp to Appear in Fantastic Beasts Series
As Potterheads around the world gear up for the first installment of the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series, there's some exciting confirmation to share about the sequel. Albus Dumbledore will in fact appear in the second part of this series – now expected to include five films instead of three. Set in ...
Ezra Miller Geeks Out, the Niffler Gets Greedy in Fantastic Beasts Videos
What do you get when cast one of the biggest Harry Potter nerds in your film? You get an on-set wizarding world historian, and in Fantastic Beasts and Where to FInd Them, that is Ezra Miller. Ironically, Miller's role in the film is that of Credence Barebone, the son of Mary Lou Barebone, the leader of the New ...
Even Dinner is Fantastic in new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Clip
Warner Bros. Pictures has released a magical first clip from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them on Twitter, which shows that even an ordinary thing like preparing a meal is totally extraordinary in J.K. Rowling's world of wizards, witches, magical beasts and more. By now you know that Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ...
Watch New Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Featurette
What more can you ask for on a Monday morning than a brand new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them featurette that has a bunch of new footage? Warner Bros. Pictures recently held a global fan event for the film, and this featurette was part of the fun. At nearly 4 minutes long, we learn a whole lot ...
New Fantastic Beasts Posters Chock Full of Details
Warner Bros. has been delivering a lot of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them tidbits over the last few weeks. We shared the weird, cool new promos, the sensational final trailer, and now, the studio has delivered a bunch of character posters that are chock-a-block with details. Let's have a look, starting with the least ...
Things get Weird in new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Promos
As you know by now, those magical beasts in the film's title really are fantastic. Now that we're nearing the premiere of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, we've learned a bit more about the titular creatures. There's the Bowtruckle (skinny, plantlike), the Swooping Evil (Monarch butterfly meets pterodactyl), and the Demiguise (a little like Gremlins Gizmo), and ...
The Final Trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is Fantastic
The fantastic beasts in the title really are fantastic. There's the Bowtruckle (skinny, plantlike), the Swooping Evil (Monarch butterfly meets pterodactyl), and the Demiguise (a little like Gremlins Gizmo), and they're just a few of the critters that makes Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them such an alluring addition to the expanding world of Harry Potter. It's not ...
Warner Bros. Sets Release Date for Fantastic Beasts Sequel
If you’ve already devoured Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (the fastest selling book in the UK this decade) and are looking for your next wizarding world fix, there's good news from Warner Bros. today. Deadline reports the studio has locked in a release date for the sequel to the highly anticipated Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find ...
Enter the American Hogwarts: the Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardy
One of the exciting things about Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is that J.K. Rowling has penned a script that takes the wizarding world across the pond. With the great Eddie Redmayne playing magical zoologist Newt Scamander, and with a host of great actors, from Katherine Waterston to Colin Farrell, playing major roles, Fantastic Beasts has a good shot at becoming a new franchise ...
Peek Inside The Magical Briefcase in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
"My heroes are always people who feel themselves to be set apart, stigmatized, or othered," says J.K. Rowling at the beginning of this Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them featurette. "That's at the heart of most of what I write. That's certainly at the heart of this movie." If there ever was a more apt time for such ...
Before Fantastic Beasts, new Trailer Reveals J.K. Rowling set to Release Four New Stories
Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly revealed this trailer for J.K. Rowling's History of Magic in North America, which teases the four brand new stories Rowling will be releasing on Pottermore today. As EW revealed, these new stories will help set the stage for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which will take viewers into the world of North American wizarding (specifically, in New ...
Watch This Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Featurette
"The job we have to do is to make it seem natural and kind have to ignore your own sense of wonder watching it," says actress Katherine Waterston about her work in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The highly secretive and hugely exciting project is the first screenplay penned by J.K. Rowling herself, and will ...
J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Debuts Trailer
As select journalists left a screening for Star Wars: The Force Awakens last night (they're not allowed to say a peep about the film until it opens), they were greeted with the news that Warner Bros. had slipped in a brand new trailer for their most anticipated film of 2016, the J.K. Rowling scripted Fantastic Beasts and Where ...
1st Look of Eddie Redmayne in Harry Potter Prequel Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
His name is Newt Scamander, and he's a wizard. He's also being played by Oscar-winner Eddie Redymane in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a prequel of sorts to her epic Harry Potter series. Redmayne's on the cover of Entertainment Weekly's upcoming issue, which gets a first look at his 1920s era wizard and some very intriguing ...
