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Fantastic Beasts Begins Filming

Principal photography has begun on Warner Bros upcoming film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. A prequel to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling in her best-selling Harry Potter books, which were adapted into the highest-grossing film franchise of all time.

The Film is under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter feature films. Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars as Newt Scamander, the wizarding world's preeminent magizoologist, who stops in New York following his travels to find and document magical creatures.

The film also stars Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) as Tina; Alison Sudol (Transparent) as Queenie; Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) as Jacob; Ezra Miller (Trainwreck) as Credence; Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown) as Mary Lou; Jenn Murray (Brooklyn) as Chastity; Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty; and Colin Farrell (True Detective) as Graves.

Marking the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, the script was inspired by her character Newt Scamander's Hogwarts textbook of the same name as the film.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is set for release on November 18th, 2016.

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