A brand new trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them premiered on EllenTube. The film will be released on November 18th with a special Lumos screening at Carnegie Hall in New York City on November 12th. A few tickets for the Lumos screening are still available through Carnegie Hall’s website. Tickets for regular screenings will be available through Fandango soon.

Starting today at 11:00am ET, the last remaining tickets for a special screening of the new Warner Bros. Pictures film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be available at the Carnegie Hall Box Office at 57th St. and Seventh Avenue in New York City, and online at http://bit.ly/291ylvs. The screening takes place on November 12th at 6pm with J.K. Rowling, Eddie Redmayne and more set to attend.

Prior to the exclusive screening benefitting Lumos USA, the film’s screenwriter and author of the Harry Potter books, J.K. Rowling, will join Academy Award® winner Eddie Redmayne on stage at the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, November 12th, 2016 at 6:00 pm for a conversation. The remaining tickets for the family event (age recommendation 10 years+), which have been in high-demand, range from $50-$500. This exclusive event, in partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures and publisher Scholastic Inc., will follow the film’s worldwide premiere, being held earlier that week in New York, and will precede the UK premiere in London the following week. The film opens in theaters on November 18th 2016, and on November 18th, Scholastic will publish the original screenplay of the film in the United States and Canada.

The film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a new and original story by J.K. Rowling and marks her screenwriting debut. In addition to Eddie Redmayne, the film also stars Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo and Colin Farrell.

Ticket revenues will support the WeAreLumosWorldwide campaign in the United States, UK and across the globe. The campaign launched last weekend (17th September) with a Facebook Live global broadcast with J.K. Rowling, opening sales of limited edition “Be the Light” t-shirts, and a gala performance of the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two at the Palace Theatre in London’s West End.

Thanks to Lumos’ 100% Pledge, all funds raised by the event will go directly to Lumos’ Families Not Orphanages Fund. The Fund will help children in the countries where Lumos works to leave orphanages and return to a family life. No portion of any donations will go to administration, fundraising or overhead costs of the organization. Lumos is grateful to Warner Bros. and Scholastic for their support.

Merchoid, the official movie merchandise retailer, has unveiled its collection of official t-shirts and hoodies based on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. The collection reveals sneak previews of what to expect in the film, featuring artwork from MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America)  fictional magazines “The American Charmer” and “The Witch’s Friend” and more. All of the products in the collection are available to preorder now from Merchoid from £15.99/€23,99/$24.99 and will ship on 20th October 2016.

Speaking about the new collection, Merchoid’s Community Manager Jessica Adams says “If you’re excited to see the next step in the Harry Potter cinematic universe and want to know more about fantastic shirts and where to buy them, look no further. Our new official collection of Fantastic Beasts clothing is available to preorder from Merchoid.com now and ships in October.”

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Warner Bros. Studio Tour London has announced 3 screenings of Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. These special screenings will take place at 4pm on November 18th, 19th and 20th. As well as being able to watch the film, tickets also include food and drink in the Backlot Café, treats for during the film, a special welcome from prop master Pierre Bohanna, and more.

Tickets for the screenings cost £145pp (purchase here on Thursday) and the package includes:

• Studio Tour with specially created souvenir ticket
• Butterbeer served in a souvenir tankard
• Choice of hot food and a glass of wine, beer or soft drink in the Backlot Cafe
• Complimentary souvenir green screen photograph
• Ticket to screening of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them in the cinema
• A bag of sweets or popcorn to enjoy in the cinema
• Choice of wine, beer, hot or soft drink in the Studio Lobby to enjoy in the cinema
• Souvenir guidebook
• Return shuttle to Watford Junction Station

Screenings of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will take place at the Warner Bros Studio Tour London on the 18th, 19th and 20th November 2016 from 4pm. Tickets are priced at £145pp and are available to purchase from 10am Thursday. Book via www.wbstudiotour.co.uk

The full press release may be read below:

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As part of their Fall Movie Preview, Entertainment Weekly has released photos and descriptions of several creatures we’ll see in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Fans who have read the Potter books as well as the original Fantastic Beasts book will know a bit about these characters but now we have a little more context.

The Niffler
“Look something shiny!” That’s what’s going through the mind of a Niffler. The mischievous critter looks like a cross between a mole and a duck-billed platypus and loves anything that glitters. The Niffler will go after your jewelry and coins with burrowing and destructive ferocity. It’s treasures are stored in the pouch on its belly, which — like Hermione’s bag in the Harry Potter films — holds far more than seems possible. “One of the big inspirations was the honey badger,” Fantastic Beasts visual effects supervisor Christian Manz says. “We saw some great footage of a honey badger raiding somebody’s house with a completely insatiable desire to find food and nothing would get in its way.”

Bowtruckle
We’re told the sprig-like Bowtruckle can be difficult to spot in a natural environment, and that Newt has at least four of them: “The Bowtruckle eats only insects, and is a sweet and intensely shy creature, but extremely loyal, and it can be very handy to have around when there are locks to pick.” The Bowtruckle was also the toughest creature for the Beasts design team to crack, with 200 versions drawn until they decided on the final rendering. Star Eddie Redmayne says a Bowtuckle named Pickett is his favorite creature in the film. “Pickett has attachment issues, so Newt knows he shouldn’t have favorites, but like he loves Pickett to sit in his top pocket,” he says. “I felt for him quite badly.”

Thunderbird
Here’s what we’re hearing on this one: “The Thunderbird is a large, regal avian creature native to the arid climate of Arizona. Its head is similar to that of an eagle or, in the wizarding world, a Hippogriff. Its multiple powerful wings shimmer with cloud-and sun-like patterns and their flapping can create storms. Thunderbirds can also sense danger. After rescuing a Thunderbird from traffickers in Egypt, Newt named him Frank and promised to return him to his natural habitat in Arizona.” Also, the Thunderbird is the sigil of one of the American wizarding school Ilvermorny’s student houses.

Swooping Evil
J.K. Rowling is a master at naming, well, pretty much everything, and this is one of our off-kilter favorite beast monikers: “Looks like a cross between a reptile and an extremely large butterfly, when at rest, the Swooping Evil lives in a green spiny cocoon. But when it spreads its colorful, spiked wings, it is strangely beautiful. It can be dangerous, as it is capable of sucking out brains, but, conversely, if properly diluted, its venom can be quite useful to erase bad memories.”

Demiguise
The Demiguise is “a primate-like creature that resembles a silver-haired orangutan with large, doleful black eyes. It has the remarkable ability to become invisible at will, and has precognitive sight, so the only way to catch it is to do something completely unpredictable. The Demiguise is fundamentally a peaceful beast, but it will give a rather nasty nip when provoked or feels threatened. Unfortunately for the Demiguise, its long, silky, silvery hair can be spun into Invisibility Cloaks, making its pelt highly valuable.”

Occamy
This is the first semi-clear look at a very key creature who’s remained almost entirely obscured until now. “The Occamy is a plumed, two-legged, winged creature with a serpentine body, making it look like a cross between a dragon and a bird. It is hatched from eggs, the shells of which are made of the purest silver and worth a fortune. The Occamy is native to the Far East and India, and the size of its habitat matters a great deal, as the Occamy is choranaptyxic — meaning it will grow or shrink to fit available space.” Hmm, so what happens if you let one… outside?

In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Alison Sudol talks about her character, Queenie, in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them.

In the film, newcomer Alison Sudol plays the free-spirited Queenie Goldstein, who works a menial desk job at the Magical Congress of the United States of America, in the same department as her sister, Tina (Katherine Waterston). Like a some famous dark wizards such as Salazar Slytherin, she’s a Legilimens — a mind reader. But Queenie’s mind reading is rather different than the way we’ve seen the talent portrayed in the Harry Potter tales. When Severus Snape taught Occlumency to Harry, he used Legilimency like an attacking spell, attempting to breach a resisting mind. But Queenie is more like an antenna, always turned on, picking up the thoughts and feelings of everybody around her.

“She’s basically a complete and utter magical empath,” Sudol tells EW. “She’s able to read people — so it’s not just reading somebody’s thoughts. She’s can read into someone’s story, she can see people’s goals. And so even though she’s able to do magic with her wand, a lot of her magic is actually internal, which makes her a different type of wizard or witch. And she’s incredibly fun, playful, joyful, and free-spirited, kind and wise, and also has a sort of stillness about her because she’s always tuning into people, so she’s quite an interesting character to play — very vivacious and lively, yet very centered and aware.”