FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

The highly anticipated sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has begun production and Warner Bros. has revealed what we can expect in the next installment. The first film’s stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, and Dan Fogler return and will be joined by Johnny Depp and Jude Law as a young Albus Dumbledore.

Newt Scamander’s brother is set to join the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them with Callum Turner in talks for the role. The film will see Eddie Redmayne return to play Newt and will be joined by Jude Law as Dumbledore.

The BAFTA Awards — which are essentially the across-the-pond-Oscars — were handed out this weekend and, to no surprise, Damien Chazelle’s musical La La Land cleaned up by picking up five trophies including Best Film, Best Actress, and Best Director.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 89th Academy Awards. Lionsgate’s musical “La La Land” led the pack with a record-tying 14 Oscar nominations, including two for Best Song.

Right after taking home a record number of Golden Globes, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land once more came out on top with an astonishing 11 nominations for the BAFTAs. The British Academy also gave recognition to films from their own country, namely the Cannes-winner I, Daniel Blake.

Last night, the 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards handed out the top prizes to various categories in film and television, further heating up the awards race. Damien Chazelle’s musical breakout La La Land took top honors for film, while Game of Thrones and Silicon Valley nabbed the highest awards in the television race.

Fantastic Beasts meets the magical expectations of the Harry Potter franchise, but delivers nothing more or less. Instead of focusing on creating one epic introduction, director David Yates and screenwriter J.K. Rowling thoughtfully build a strong foundation that will open the door to a bigger and better story in the forthcoming Fantastic films.

A magizoologist makes a brief stop in New York but is waylaid by a Muggle, a misplaced magical case and the escape of some fantastic beasts.

At a Warner Bros. fan event in London on Thursday, Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling suggested that there will be at least five films in the spin-off franchise. The studio had initially announced a trilogy with the final film hitting theaters in 2020.

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Another name has been added to the upcoming Harry Potter spinoff film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, just a few months before the film is set for release: Zoe Kravitz.

The Academy Award-winning actor took the stage at Comic-Con in Hall H on Saturday and, sticking to the vibe of his character from the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, shared some magic with the audience.

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

The major studios flocked to Las Vegas last week to show off the most promising projects within their upcoming slates at the annual convention known as CinemaCon. We’ve put together a few of the highlights from each studio’s presentation.

The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Entertainment Weekly has unveiled a magical crop of new set photos from Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.

J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter spinoff has added Ron Perlman to its increasingly long list of top tier talent. Details are tight on the film’s plot but it is rumored that the Hellboy star will play a goblin.

Voight joins Eddie Redmayne, who leads a cast consisting of Alison Sudo, Dan Fogler, Ezra Miller, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Katherine Waterston, Jenn Murray, and Samantha Morton. Fantastic Beasts, which began production in August, follows Redmayne’s Scamander as he travels to NYC documenting magical creatures and encountering fellow wizards.

Jenn Murray joins the hunt for magical creatures in the wizarding world.

Colin Farrell has joined the cast of the upcoming Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. He will play Graves, a wizard that Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander meets in New York. David Yates is directing what Warner Bros. has said will be the first in three part trilogy.

Cera is going to reteam with Will Arnett instead of tracking magical creatures.

The film, which marks the screenwriting debut of author J.K. Rowling, is set in Rowling’s wizarding world nearly seventy years before the heroic adventures of the boy who lived. Fogler will play the role of Jacob, a muggle (non magical person) who befriends Eddie Redmayne’s magizoologist Newt Scamander

The pic is loosely inspired by Rowling’s book of the same name, which serves as a Hogwarts textbook in the Harry Potter films. Sudol will play the role of Queenie, younger sister to Katherine Waterston’s Porpentina. Queenie and her sister encounter Scamander when he arrives in NYC.

Sources reveal that Miller has long been the favorite to take on the role of Kredan, a wizard who encounters magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) when he lands in New York City on his mission to find and document magical creatures.

Waterston will play Porpentina, who comes across magiczoologist Newt Scamander (Redmayne) when he arrives in New York City on his expedition to discover and document new magical creatures, set seventy years before the boy who lived’s adventures.

Sources confirm that Dakota Fanning, Saoirse Ronan, Lili Simmons and Alison Sudol are being eyed to star as Queenie, while Kate Upton, Elizabeth Debicki, and Katherine Waterston are in the running to play Queenie’s older sister, Tina.

The “Dr. Who” star is a current frontrunner to star in the “Harry Potter” spin-off film.

The “Harry Potter” director has been confirmed for the Potterverse spin-off.

The director of the final four “Harry Potter” movies is in talks to helm J.K. Rowling’s spin-off.

The acclaimed director might be heading back to Hogwarts.