According to box office estimates and pundits research, Friday's release of
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is estimated to make at least $250 million in the worldwide box office this opening weekend (with a high of $275 million) in 79 markets/nations.
In the domestic box office (United States and Canada) the film is estimated to bring in $65 million - $70 million, which is admittedly lower than the opening take for 2016's
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The overseas box office numbers, including large markets in China and the UK, will help boost those numbers.
Official screenings for
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald worldwide will begin on Wednesday in France and other European nations, before going wider Thursday evening through Friday and the weekend. The final box office numbers will be announced sometime on Sunday, and those will be reported here as soon as they are up.
For all fans interested,
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will play globally in regular 2D, 3D, IMAX, Dolby, PLF and motion-seat formats (including 4DX and ScreenX).
Pre-order tickets here for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald through Fandango.
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set visit breakdown of
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, including
the return to Hogwarts and London, and entering
Paris's Wizarding world.
Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is the second of five all new adventures in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World™.
At the end of the first film, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) was captured by MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), with the help of Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne). But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escaped custody and has set about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
The film features an ensemble cast led by Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, William Nadylam, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, Poppy Corby-Tuech, with Jude Law and Johnny Depp.
“Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling. The film is produced by David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram. Tim Lewis, Neil Blair, Rick Senat and Danny Cohen serve as executive producers.
The film reunites the behind-the-scenes creative team from the first “Fantastic Beasts” film, including 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), four-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood (“Chicago,” “Memoirs of a Geisha,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), and Yates’ longtime editor Mark Day (the last four “Harry Potter” films). The music is by eight-time Oscar nominee James Newton Howard (“Defiance,” “Michael Clayton,” “The Hunger Games” films).
Slated for release on November 16, 2018, the film will be distributed worldwide in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures.
This film is rated PG-13 for some sequences of fantasy action.
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'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' estimated at $250M global debut weekend 
