Besides these new films, the Potter-centric site Pottermore, and Rowling’s Potter stage play, there’s also the ever-expanding “Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme-parks at Universal Studios in Orlando, Hollywood, and Japan”.
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That book is based on a play of the same name that is now running in London.
Excitement. Fans flock to get their copy at Dymocks in Sydney. In the universe of “Harry Potter”, the book is mandatory reading for first-year students and it was first published in 1927.
Meanwhile, in the UK, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has become the fastest-selling novel in more than a decade. So I’m thrilled to see it realised so beautifully but, no. Harry is done now’.
The seventh book in the Harry Potter series was successful beyond compare: Within 24 hours of being released in 2007, “The Deathly Hallows” sold 8.3 million copies sold in the United States and 2.65 million copies in Britain, according to the publishers for those markets, Scholastic and Bloomsbury, respectively. We may not have any new adventures featuring the titular character, but it looks like FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM’s lead character, Newt Scamander, will be back for at least one more installment.
“Deathly Hallows” sold 1.8 million copies and 780,000 units of the adult edition in the U.K.in its launch week, it added.
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them might not be out until November but it’s already landed two sequels, with the release date of the second film confirmed.
There’s no chance that the first film won’t be a huge hit, coming at a time when Potter fans have been starved of big screen releases for years and fresh from the hype of the stageplay The Cursed Child.
The play is credited to Jack Thorne and is based on a narrative by Mr. Thorne, director John Tiffany, and “Potter” author J.K. Rowling.
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The original film has Eddie Redmayne’s 1920s wizard racing to find his escaped “beasts” when they are accidentally set free in New York City.
