Yates will return to the director’s chair in the second “Fantastic Beasts” movie and Rowling will once again write the screenplay.
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Parker has been very aware from the beginning that the character of Harry Potter is one that comes with baggage and expectations from the fans. They also confirmed a worldwide release date of November 16th, 2018. Now there is going to be a movie called Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, due out at the end of the year.
J.K. Rowling is doing pretty well for herself these days.
Although “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” closes the book on the Boy Who Lived, Rowling’s unique world of witches and wizards continues to extend its reach. It will be Yates’ sixth directing gig in the wider Potter-verse, as he was also at the helm for the final four films. In fact, two million copies of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two” script book were sold for the first two days since its release.
Sales for the latest installment show that Harry Potter’s appeal hasn’t waned, even as a new film set in the world of Harry (though taking place decades earlier) approaches, the November movie “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”.
As you can see, the Harry Potter franchise is the trifecta of book, play, and movies (and not just the movies based on the books).
United Kingdom book industry magazine and website The Bookseller said if sales continued, the script book would “be the second biggest-selling single week for one title since records began, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as the first”.
With an estimated £580 million fortune, Rowling made £14.2 million in the past year that saw the opening of her two-part West End debut, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child.
Within 24 hours of being released in 2007, “The Deathly Hallows” sold 2.65 million copies in Britain, publisher Bloomsbury said, while Scholastic recorded 8.3 million copies sold in the US.
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David has hinted that the Fantastic Beasts films, which starEddie Redmayne as the lead character Newt Scamander, may link closer to the Harry Potter tales than originally thought.
