Johnny Depp Out as Grindelwald

Actor Johnny Depp announced today that he has resigned from the role of Grindelwald in the Fantastic Beasts movies. The studio has confirmed that they will be recasting the character and that the next film will be delayed to summer 2022.

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Fantastic Beasts 3 Delayed

Warner Bros moved the released date of the third Fantastic Beasts film back a year to November 12, 2021. Filming is to begin in the spring of next year.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Home Video Details

Warner has announced that Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be available for purchase on digital platforms beginning February 15 and on Blu-ray and DVD March 12. An extended cut with seven minutes of extra footage will be included, along with the following special features

• Wizards on Screen, Fans in Real Life
• Distinctly Dumbledore
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: The Return to Hogwarts
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Newt’s Menagerie
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Credence, Nagini and the Circus Arcanus
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Paris and Place Cachée
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Ministere des Affaires Magiques
• Unlocking Scene Secrets: Grindelwald's Escape and the Ring of Fire
• Deleted Scenes

Pre-orders are available here

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Poster 3

Warner Bros has released a new poster for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer 3

Warner has released the final trailer for November's Fantastic Beasts sequel.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald Character Posters

Warner has released a set of new character posters for the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel.

Aquaman & Crimes of Grindelwald Photos

Entertainment Weekly has released their fall movie preview, containing new photos from dozens of movies.

Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer 2 & Poster

Warner has released a new trailer and poster for the Fantastic Beasts sequel.

Jessica Williams' Crimes of Grindelwald Character Revealed

JK Rowling has announced that Jessica Williams' character in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (the American equivalent of Hogwarts) Professor Lally Hicks.

Professor Eulalie (Lally) Hicks of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with some random woman during the interval of #CursedChildNYC pic.twitter.com/Kl7joRz8me

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 22, 2018

You only see a HINT of Lally in Fantastic Beasts 2. Her true glory is revealed in FB3. https://t.co/8vyhdlU71m

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) April 22, 2018

The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer & Poster 1

Here's the first official trailer and poster for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

The Crimes of Grindelwald Trailer Tomorrow

Warner Bros has confirmed that the first trailer for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be released tomorrow.

Crimes of Grindelwald Tina & Newt Image

Empire has released a new photo from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

The Crimes of Grindelwald Wraps

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has officially finished principal photography.

That's a wrap on #FantasticBeasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald production! See you in 2018. #MagicInProgress #FantasticBeasts #WizardingWednesdays pic.twitter.com/aWn0TV36bt

— Fantastic Beasts (@FantasticBeasts) December 20, 2017

New Crimes of Grindelwald Photo

Total Film magazine has published a new photo of Newt and Jacob from the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel.

2 Crimes of Grindelwald Photos

Entertainment Weekly has released a pair of images from the upcoming Fantastic Beasts sequel.

Fantastic Beasts 2 Title

Warner Bros has revealed the title of next year's Fantastic Beasts sequel: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

In one year, return to the Wizarding World with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. #MagicInProgress #FantasticBeasts pic.twitter.com/8aWj8xhGj5

— Fantastic Beasts (@FantasticBeasts) November 16, 2017

Several Characters Added to Fantastic Beasts 2

Warner Bros has announced the addition of several new cast members to the Fantastic Beasts sequel. Brontis Jodorowsky, Wolf Roth, Victoria Yeates, Derek Riddell, Poppy Corby-Tuech, and Cornell S John will portray Nicolas Flamel, Spielman, Bunty, Torquil Travers, Rosier, and Arnold Guzman, respectively. Additionally, Jessica Williams and Fiona Glascott have joined in unspecified roles.

David Sakurai Cast in Fantastic Beasts 2

Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros has cast David Sakurai in the Fantastic Beasts sequel. He will play Krall, one of Gellert Grindelwald's henchmen.

Fantastic Beasts 2 Starts Production, New Details Revealed

Production has officially started on the second Fantastic Beasts movie. Warner Bros has put out a press release with new plot and casting details on the sequel.

Principal photography starts today, Monday, July 3, on an all new adventure set in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World, the second of five films in the series that began with “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” The as-yet-untitled film is being directed by David Yates.

Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (“The Theory of Everything”) stars once more as wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander; alongside Katherine Waterston as Auror Tina Goldstein; Alison Sudol as her sister, Queenie Goldstein; and Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski, the only No-Maj in the foursome.

Oscar nominee Johnny Depp (the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, “Finding Neverland”), who was revealed as Gellert Grindelwald, stars as the powerful Dark wizard in the film. Oscar nominee Jude Law (“The Talented Mr. Ripley,” “Cold Mountain”) takes on the role of Albus Dumbledore—one of J.K. Rowling’s most beloved characters—decades before he becomes Headmaster at Hogwarts. Credence, whose fate was unknown at the end of the first film, makes a mysterious return, played again by Ezra Miller. Zoë Kravitz plays Leta Lestrange, who was glimpsed in a photo as a woman from Newt’s past; Callum Turner is the famed Theseus Scamander, a war hero and Auror, who also happens to be Newt’s older brother; and Claudia Kim plays a young woman we first meet as a featured attraction at a wizarding circus.

J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay for the film, which opens in 1927, a few months after Newt helped to unveil and capture the infamous Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. However, as he promised he would, Grindelwald has made a dramatic escape and has been gathering more followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one who might be able to stop him is the wizard he once called his dearest friend, Albus Dumbledore. But Dumbledore will need help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander. The adventure reunites Newt with Tina, Queenie and Jacob, but his mission will also test their loyalties as they face new perils in an increasingly dangerous and divided wizarding world.

The film expands the wizarding world, moving from New York to London and on to Paris. There are also some surprising nods to the Harry Potter stories that will delight fans of the books and film series.

The ensemble cast also includes William Nadylam as a wizard named Yusuf Kama; Ingvar Sigurdsson as a bounty hunter named Grimmson; Ólafur Darri Ólafsson as Skender, who runs the wizarding circus; and Kevin Guthrie as Abernathy, whom we met as Tina and Queenie’s boss at MACUSA (Magical Congress of the USA).

David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram are producing the film, with Tim Lewis, Neil Blair, Rick Senat and Danny Cohen serving as executive producers.

Collaborating with Yates behind the scenes, the creative teams are led by Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot (“A River Runs Through It”); three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig (“The English Patient,” “Dangerous Liaisons,” “Gandhi,” the “Harry Potter” films), three-time BAFTA Award-winning editor Mark Day (the last four “Harry Potter” films, “State of Play”), four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” “Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Alice in Wonderland”), Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Tim Burke (“Gladiator,” the “Harry Potter” films), and Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Christian Manz (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1”).

The new adventure is being filmed at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, which has been the cinematic home of the Wizarding World since the first “Harry Potter” film.

Slated for release on November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Fantastic Beasts 2 Script Complete

JK Rowling has confirmed on Twitter that she has finished the script for the Fantastic Beasts sequel.

Yes, I have, but I CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING YET, WOMAN. https://t.co/PzpjjL0OiR

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) May 28, 2017