During the Global Fan Event for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, fans at IMAX theaters across the globe were able to see a special featurette on the film. Watch below: Before Harry Potter. Across an ocean. A new world of magic awaits!
It was also revealed, by J.K. Rowling, that the Fantastic Beasts series will be made up of FIVE films. Many are speculating that the main theme of the films will be the rise and fall of Grindlewald. Watch the feature below and see if you agree.
The Fantastic Beats and Where To Find Them Global Fan event has begun. Join the cast from Fantastic Beasts for a live Q&A and be the first to see exciting new footage from Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.
As many fans will remember, there is a special Lumos screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them being held on November 12th at Carnegie Hall in New York. Now Lumos is offering fans worldwide a chance to win flights and tickets to the screening for donating at least $10 to Lumos’ efforts. You can also donate at least $100 to win a signed copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
Grand prize-winner from sweepstakes to win
Two tickets to Carnegie Hall for an advance screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them on November 12th and see a conversation with J.K. Rowling and Eddie Redmayne on stage
Round trip air transportation to New York for two provided by American Airlines
Hotel accommodation at New York Marriott East Side
An invitation to the post-screening reception with members of the film’s cast
Two signed copies of the Original Screenplay of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
The full press release may be read below:
LUMOS FOUNDATION USA — author J.K. Rowling’s international non-profit children’s organization announces today that movie lovers worldwide will have the chance to win a pair of tickets for the special advance screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage on November 12, 2016. The winners also will receive invitations to an exclusive reception with members of the film’s cast following the screening.
Every $10 donation at www.crowdrise.com/fantastic-beasts-and-where-to-find-them will count as one entry to the global sweepstakes run through the online fundraising platform CrowdRise to raise money to reunite children and families in Haiti and increase understanding of the harm caused by orphanages. Funds will also be used to support Lumos’ relief efforts in Haiti and help children and families in the wake of Hurricane Matthew. Entrants are eligible from almost all countries around the world and flight costs up to $2,500 will be covered for eligible entrants anywhere in the world. Free entry and terms and conditions available here.
Georgette Mulheir, CEO said “With over 30,000 children in 760 orphanages in Haiti, many of which have extremely poor conditions and are linked to incidences of child trafficking, the need to get these children back to families has been acute for some time. Now in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, our teams are coordinating with other aid agencies to get emergency relief to children and families in the south of the country hardest hit by this disaster. We are re-directing funds to help with these efforts.
“Through the generosity of our partners and every one supporting this Crowdrise campaign, we will help some of the country’s most vulnerable of children at this critical time in providing them with food, water and medical support, helping to prevent those separated from families being placed into harmful orphanages, and safeguarding them from traffickers who would seek to exploit them.”
The much-anticipated screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to benefit Lumos Foundation USA, will start at 6:00pm EST with a conversation between the film’s screenwriter, J.K. Rowling, and Academy Award® winning actor Eddie Redmayne, followed by a screening of the film.
The special advance screening by Warner Bros. Entertainment in partnership with Harry Potter US publisher Scholastic Inc., will follow the film’s worldwide premiere earlier that week in New York, prior to the worldwide release on November 18, 2016. On November 18th, Scholastic will publish the Original Screenplay of the film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by J.K. Rowling in the United States and Canada.
With more than 2,000 tickets sold – the event is part of a comprehensive campaign We Are Lumos Worldwide, supporting programs to help 8 million institutionalized children across the globe return to families and raise awareness of the harm caused by orphanages. Other events have included an interview with J.K. Rowling streamed live on Facebook, September 17th, which drew over 2 million viewers worldwide, a gala performance of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in London’s Palace Theatre, on September 18th, and the sale of over 19,800 limited edition T-shirts featuring a quote from J.K. Rowling from her Very Good Lives Harvard commencement speech in 2008.
Thanks to the generosity of Warner Bros., Scholastic and Lumos’ 100% Pledge, all funds raised by the Carnegie Hall event will go directly to Lumos’ Families Not Orphanages Fund. The Fund will help children in the countries where Lumos works to leave harmful orphanages and return to a family life. No portion of any donation will go to administration, fundraising or overhead costs of the organization.
Over the past decade, Lumos has helped thousands of children who were abused and neglected in orphanages return to family life in Central and Eastern Europe, and more recently in Haiti. Now in its second decade, Lumos is expanding its work in Latin America and the Caribbean, and other regions around the world with the aim to ensure that by 2050 no child are left in harmful orphanages and all children live in safe, loving families.
This morning Entertainment Weekly shared nine new character posters from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. All nine posters can be seen in our gallery! Tickets will go on pre-sale this coming Thursday, October 13th via Fandango and other ticket providers. The film will be released on November 18th 2016.
A summary of the film was also released by Warner Bros. and it gives us some great new insight into the film’s themes.
There are growing dangers in the wizarding world of 1926 New York. Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the Second Salemers, a fanatical faction of No-Majs (American for Muggles) bent on eradicating them. And the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, after wreaking havoc in Europe, has slipped away… and is now nowhere to be found.
Unaware of the rising tensions, Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures, some of which are safeguarded in the hidden dimensions of his deceptively nondescript leather case. But potential disaster strikes when unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of Newt’s beasts loose in a city already on edge—a serious breach of the Statute of Secrecy that former Auror Tina Goldstein jumps on, seeing her chance to regain her post. However, things take an ominous turn when Percival Graves, the enigmatic Director of Magical Security at MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), casts his suspicions on both Newt… and Tina.
Now allied, Newt and Tina, together with Tina’s sister, Queenie, and their new No-Maj friend, Jacob, form a band of unlikely heroes, who must recover Newt’s missing beasts before they come to harm. But the stakes are higher than these four outsiders—now branded fugitives—ever imagined, as their mission puts them on a collision course with dark forces that could push the wizarding and No-Maj worlds to the brink of war.
IMAX Theaters have announced their Harry Potter IMAX Week which will be happening this month.
For the first time ever, you can experience all eight Harry Potter movies in IMAX…no Time-Turner necessary. Starting Thursday, October 13, gather your fellow Gryffindor house members (or Slytherin, we won’t judge you) and take the Hogwarts Express back to the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
That’s not all! You’ll also catch an IMAX exclusive peek at Fantastic Beastsand Where to Find Them, which hits IMAX theatres this November.
Showtimes may vary depending on location. Please check with your local theatre for schedule information.
You can find locations and buy your tickets at the following links:
Join the cast from Fantastic Beasts for a live Q&A and be the first to see exciting new footage from Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them. They also revealed that fans in the US will be able to stay after the event to watch Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in IMAX, it’s first ever screening!
Tickets are available here. Unfortunately you have to add yourself to the waitlist now if you’re interested in attending as passes have run out.
As the excitement builds for the November 18th opening of Warner Bros. Pictures’ new adventure “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” fans will get to experience some of the film’s magic early at the global celebration A RETURN TO J.K. ROWLING’S WIZARDING WORLD. The worldwide fan event will kick off on Thursday, October 13th, at 8:30 p.m. GMT (3:30 p.m. EDT, 12:30 p.m. PDT) and simultaneously in major cities in the U.S. and internationally. The announcement comes on the heels of this morning’s debut of the brand new trailer for the film.
Sue Kroll, Warner Bros. Pictures’ President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, stated, “The enthusiasm and support of wizarding world fans everywhere has meant so much to us, as well as the filmmakers. We are proud to share some exciting footage from ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’ at this global event created just for them, and are especially thrilled that most can experience it in IMAX.”
Attendees will first be treated to a never-before-seen reel featuring some of the thrilling moments from the much-anticipated film. Talent from “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” will be joining the celebration, in person, at two IMAX theatres, in London and Los Angeles, to welcome the fans.
• In London: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, and director David Yates will be on hand.
• In Los Angeles: Colin Farrell and Jon Voight will be in attendance.
Fans gathered at those locations, as well as attendees watching from IMAX theatres in New York, Sao Paulo and Mexico City, as well as a non-IMAX theatre in Rome, will be able to submit questions to the stars and director during the Q&A. It will be a rare opportunity to learn more about the story and their thrilling foray into a new era of the wizarding world.
The footage shown, as well as the Q&A, will also be streamed live online at www.facebook.com/fantasticbeastsmovie so eager fans around the world can share in the excitement.
Fans at each location will be presented with a specially designed “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” exclusive t-shirt, commemorating the worldwide event, as well as a collectible mini-poster.
As an added bonus, audiences in the U.S. theatres can stay for a special screening of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” being presented for the first time ever in IMAX.
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