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  • “Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them”: First Trailer Released

    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has officially revealed its first peek into what the long-awaited Harry Potter prequel will look like.

    In the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Newt Scamander is an expert on fantastical beasts.

    Newt brings a case, presumably full of such beasts, to New York city where some of them escape.

    In reality, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is actually a book that is set up to look like a textbook that Harry and his friends would have encountered at Hogwarts.

    However, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling created the character of Newt, played by Eddie Redmayne (is there a movie he isn’t in these days?), especially for the movie version of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

    Eddie Redmayne is Newt Scamander. #FantasticBeasts

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    Watch the trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them here:

    Other stars of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them include Ezra Miller, Colin Farrell and Katherine Waterston. The story takes place 70 years before Harry Potter comes on the scene, in the 1920’s.

    Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is directed by David Yates, who was the director for several Harry Potter movies. The screenplay was written by none other than J.K. Rowling.

    The upcoming November 2016 release of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is really exciting for “Pot Heads” (Harry Potter fans, of course) everywhere!

    The question now is, what will be the future of the franchise from here on out?

    Are you super excited to see Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them?

  • Harry Potter Real Sequel? Chris Columbus Is In.

    Harry Potter fans are all excited about the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them spin-off film. The J.K. Rowling work is predicted to mollify Harry Potter fanatics who have longed for more of the Hogwarts world ever since the credits rolled on Deathly Hallows.

    When asked if he might make a cameo appearance in the Fantastic Beasts film, Daniel Radcliffe gave a definite no. But what about coming back to actually play Harry Potter in a full-blown Potter film?

    “I don’t know,” Radcliffe said, “I really have no idea. I don’t know if J.K. Rowling has any plans to write anymore of the series with Harry as a central character. In the last story she wrote Harry is 35, so I’m not old enough to play that yet. Thank god, too, otherwise I’d definitely be getting asked about that. In terms of Fantastic Beasts though I definitely won’t be showing up in that.”

    But now another voice has joined the chorus of those longing for more Harry Potter. Chris Columbus, who directed the Sorcerer’s Stone and Chamber of Secrets films, says he would be up for a new Potter film.

    Columbus told Entertainment Weekly, “I would love to go back and do another one. Not ‘Fantastic Beasts’ as much, which I think is going to be amazing, but I would love to do another movie with those three characters – Harry, Hermione, and Ron.”

    “I’m just fascinated about what happened to them after the end of the last movie, because then they cut to 18 years ahead. There’s 18 years there of great Harry Potter stories. There has to be a great story in Harry’s life at that point. Hopefully [J.K. Rowling] will maybe think about doing that. Even if I wouldn’t make a movie, I’d still like to read those stories,” Colombus said.

    For now, fans have Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which is set for a release in U.S theaters on November 18, 2016.

  • Katherine Waterston To Star In ‘Harry Potter’ Spinoff ‘Fantastic Beasts’

    Katherine Waterston has been cast to play the role of Porpentina in the upcoming Harry Potter-inspired movie, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

    Porpentina, also known as Tina, is a witch who operates and works her magic in the United States. While Harry Potter is located in London, the setting for Fantastic Beasts will be in New York.

    Waterston was best known for her role in last year’s Inherent Vice. The British-born American actress also appeared in several episodes of Boardwalk Empire.

    Several actresses including Saoirse Ronan, Lili Simmons and Dakota Fanning were reportedly considered for the role of Porpentina as well.

    The film is still searching for two more cast members to play pivotal roles. The roles are Porpentina’s younger sister, Queenie, and Scamander’s opponent, Jacob.

    The casting team is reported to be searching for established faces for the roles even though they discovered fresh faces for the original Harry Potter movie.

    The director of the last four Harry Potter films David Yates will help with the project. The screenplay for Fantastic Beasts was written by Potter author J.K. Rowling.

    Potter producer David Heyman is also back as the movie’s producer but this time guided by Rowling. Alongside Heyman to produce the film are Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.

    Rowling highly emphasized that this upcoming film isn’t going to be a sequel to Harry Potter but a spinoff.

    “Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series but an extension of the wizarding world,” Rowling explained.

    The film is set to hit theaters November 18 next year.