Fantastic Beasts opens big in the US
The movie’s name is the same as a commonly referenced, and fictitious, textbook written by Newt Scamander that Harry Potter and his classmates use at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
And Eddie – who has five-month-old daughter Iris with his wife Hannah Bagshawe – is hopeful that the fans will warm to the Fantastic Beasts franchise as much as they did to the Harry Potter series.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Full Movie will premiere on November 18, 2016 in the United States. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, and Ezra Miller, “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” has additionally earned $143.3 million from foreign markets and has earned roughly $218.3 million for on its global debut.
Indeed, it was a strong weekend for all-ages films overall in the lead-up to the holiday, with “Doctor Strange” placing second with $17.
Beasts has a “perfect” pedigree, he says, with Rowling writing the screenplay and Potter director David Yates returning.
The spin-off is set before Harry is born in New York City, giving Rowling an entirely new era, a new setting and new characters to play with.
Warner Bros’ enormous investment in a new five-part franchise based on the wizarding world created by JK Rowling appears to have paid off. But we did include one American actor. The superhero movie, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Tilda Swinton, recorded a $17.6 million weekend gross and is at $181.5 million of total gross.
Another Hollywood fantasy adventure film “Doctor Strange”, which topped the chart for the past three weeks, slipped to No. 3 with 193,460 in attendance.
‘She’s a kind of tragic figure, so we will see a bit more of her in the second movie’. Rowling said, “I think we wanted to be honest with people that it was going to be more than one movie, but we were feeling our way”.