Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie Details:
| Based on | A screenplay by J. K. Rowling |
| Country | United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Adventure Fantasy |
| Release date | 29 March 2022 (Royal Festival Hall) 8 April 2022 (United Kingdom) 15 April 2022 (United States) |
| Running time | 2hr 22min |
| Age rating | PG-13 |
| Starring | Eddie Redmayne Jude Law Ezra Miller Dan Fogler Alison Sudol Callum Turner Jessica Williams Katherine Waterston Mads Mikkelsen |
| Directed by | David Yates |
| Screenplay by | J. K. Rowling Steve Kloves |
| Produced by | David Heyman J. K. Rowling Steve Kloves Lionel Wigram Tim Lewis |
| Cinematography by | George Richmond |
| Edited by | Mark Day |
| Music by | James Newton Howard |
| Production Company | Warner Bros. Pictures Heyday Films |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie Cast & Characters:
- Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander: A British Ministry of Magic employee in the Beasts Division of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, as well as a self-proclaimed magizoologist. He played a part in remedying the events of a violent attack in New York City in December 1926 involving dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald. He is a confidant of Albus Dumbledore, despite being an outcast from certain circles of the British Wizarding Community due to his checkered past.
- Jude Law as Albus Dumbledore: An extremely powerful and influential wizard in the British Wizarding Community, known for his academic brilliance, and teacher of Defence Against the Dark Arts at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He holds a blood pact with Grindelwald, with whom he was in love and had a close relationship as a young adult, preventing them from dueling each other.
- Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone / Aurelius Dumbledore: A disturbed adopted child who survived in a tiny Obscurus fragment and was sought out by Grindelwald. He initially believed that he was Corvus Lestrange, Leta Lestrange’s deceased half-brother. However, Grindelwald claimed that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore and that his brother, Albus, would seek to kill him.
- Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski: An American No-Maj veteran of the First World War, owner of a bakery, friend of Newt, and lover of Queenie.
- Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein: The renegade younger sister of Tina, who worked alongside her in the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA). She is a powerful natural Legilimens.
- William Nadylam as Yusuf Kama: A French wizard of Senegalese descent and an ally of Newt.
- Callum Turner as Theseus Scamander: Newt Scamander’s older brother who is a dedicated and loyal Auror, as well as the Head of the Auror Office in the British Ministry of Magic.
- Jessica Williams as Eulalie “Lally” Hicks: A respected Charms teacher at America’s Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
- Victoria Yeates as Bunty Broadacre: Newt Scamander’s indispensable Magizoology assistant.
- Poppy Corby-Tuech as Vinda Rosier: Grindelwald’s loyal right-hand follower.
- Fiona Glascott as Minerva McGonagall: A teacher at Hogwarts and Albus Dumbledore’s colleague.
- Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein: An American MACUSA Auror and currently Head of the Auror Office in MACUSA.
- Mads Mikkelsen as Gellert Grindelwald: An infamous powerful dark wizard who caused mass violence, terror, and chaos around the globe, seeking to lead a new Wizarding World Order. Mikkelsen replaces Johnny Depp in the role.
- It seems like a star-studded cast lineup for a magical adventure!
Storyline:
Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches, and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines?
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie Box Office Collection & Budget:
| Budget | $200 million |
| Worldwide Collection | $407.2 million |
About Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore Movie:
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is based on a screenplay by J.K. Rowling.
It is the sequel to Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the third instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the eleventh overall in the Wizarding World franchise.
A third Fantastic Beasts film was slated for release in November 2020, before it was pushed back to July 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Much of the main cast from the first two films confirmed their involvement in March 2020.
Principal photography was set to begin in early 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic, eventually commencing in September 2020.
Johnny Depp, who portrayed Grindelwald in previous films, was originally set to return and film one scene for the film, but was asked to resign in November 2020 following the verdict of the Depp v News Group Newspapers Ltd court case; Mads Mikkelsen replaced him later that month. Filming took place until February 2021.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 29 March 2022, and was released in the United Kingdom on 8 April 2022 and in the United States on 15 April in 2D, 4D, Dolby Cinema, IMAX, and ScreenX formats, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
The film received mixed reviews from critics, though it was generally considered an improvement over its predecessor. It was a box-office bomb and grossed over $407 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing film in the Wizarding World franchise.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was released for digital download on 30 May 2022, and on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on 28 June 2022. Over its first month of streaming in HBO Max, the film was streamed in an estimated eight million households.
The film was nominated for Best Fantasy Film at the 47th Saturn Awards and for two awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Photoreal Feature at the 21st Visual Effects Society Awards
The Fantastic Beasts film series was initially speculated to be a trilogy, but in October 2016, Rowling announced that the series would be composed of five films, later confirming that the story of the series would consist of a sequence of events that occurred between the years of 1926 and 1945.
In February 2022, producer David Heyman revealed that work on the script for Fantastic Beasts 4 had not yet begun. In April 2022, Variety reported that Warner Bros. greenlighting the final two installments would be dependent on the critical and commercial performance of The Secrets of Dumbledore. Mads Mikkelsen believed that Johnny Depp could return as Grindelwald in another film.
In November 2022, it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery was not actively planning to continue the film series or to develop any films related to the Wizarding World franchise.
