About the film
Fantastic Beasts is a film series directed by David Yates and a spin-off prequel to the Harry Potter novel and film series. The series is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and consists of three fantasy films, beginning with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and following with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022).
Following the 2001–11 film series directly adapting the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts is the second film series in the Wizarding World shared universe media franchise.
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