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Explore A New Era Of The Wizarding World Before Harry Potter Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets of 1926 New York, threatening to expose the wizarding community. Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures. When unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of Newt's beasts loose, a band of unlikely heroes must recover the missing beasts before they come to a harm, but their mission puts them on a collision course with Dark forces. Special Features Before Harry Potter: A New Era of Magic Begins! - Join J.K. Rowling as she, David Yates and David Heyman return to Leavesden Studios to build a new and exciting corner of the wizarding universe. Meet the Characters - The Magizoologist - The Goldstein Sisters - The New Salemersemers - The No-Maj Baker - The President and the Aurornt and the Auror Meet the Creatures - Meet the Fantastic Beasts - Bowtruckle - Demiguise - Erumpent - Niffler - Occamy - Thunderbird Design - Shaping the World of Fantastic Beasts - New York City - MACUSA - Newt’s Magical Case - The Shaw Banquet - The Blind Pig Deleted Scenes
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
133 min
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.