Tag: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Tops, but ‘Widows’ Tells a Sad Story

    ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Tops, but ‘Widows’ Tells a Sad Story

    When a film opens to over $60 million like “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” you could call it the top story and go from there. However, there’s just as much interest in the opening-weekend subplots provided by “Widows,” “Instant Family,” and “Green Book.” These results are not encouraging; in the cases of “Widows” and…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ tops North American charts in $62m debut

    ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ tops North American charts in $62m debut

    At Eternity’s Gate starring Willem Dafoe debuts at number 27 on respectable $92,000 from four sites.Warner Bros’ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald starring Eddie Redmayne opened top of the North American charts by a country mile, yet there will be no hiding the fact that $62.2m was a disappointing debut.Despite its fans among critics,…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ rules world on $253m launch

    ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald’ rules world on $253m launch

    Fantasy feature tracking 2% ahead of 2016 predecessor at same stage.Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald ruled the world on a $253m global launch, while Venom powered past $200m in its second weekend in China, and Bohemian Rhapsody made light work of surging past the $250m international milestone.Warner Bros Pictures InternationalFantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Dominates Overseas Box Office With $191 Million Launch

    ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Dominates Overseas Box Office With $191 Million Launch

    “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” lead the foreign box office with a massive $191 million. The “Harry Potter” prequel series launched in North America with $62 million for a global weekend haul of $253 million.The Wizarding World installment needs to do well overseas to justify its costly $200 million budget and make up for…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Sequel Delivers $253 Million Global Debut

    ‘Fantastic Beasts’ Sequel Delivers $253 Million Global Debut

    While still a solid weekend, the performances fell below Mojo’s pre-weekend expectations almost across the board. Warner Bros.’s Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the latest entry in the Fantastic Beasts franchise still topped the weekend as expected, but even it fell a bit below the studio’s expectations, though not by as much as both…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ to Cast a Spell With $63 Million Launch

    ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ to Cast a Spell With $63 Million Launch

    “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” is on its way to a $63 million debut from 4,163 North American theaters.The latest Wizarding World installment from Warner Bros. earned an estimated $25.7 million on Friday from North America with an additional $74.3 million internationally. If estimates hold, the sequel’s debut would come in behind its predecessor,…

  • Friday Box Office: ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Conjures $25.7 Million

    Friday Box Office: ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’ Conjures $25.7 Million

    There’s no stopping the Harry Potter brand. The latest prequel to the Harry Potter series, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, pulled in a healthy $25.7 million on Friday, which includes the $9.1 million it made from Thursday night screenings.The latest Fantastic Beasts movie is on track to pull in $60-63 million domestically, but it…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’: What Did You Think?

    ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’: What Did You Think?

    Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is now out in theaters, and boy are there things to discuss with this movie. The sequel is the second installment in what screenwriter J.K. Rowling plans to be a five-film franchise, picking up in 1927 pretty directly after the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’: What’s Up with Dumbledore?

    ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’: What’s Up with Dumbledore?

    Spoilers for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald follow below. This is your final spoiler warning, folks. We’re going deep into Fantastic Beasts 2 and the film’s shocking ending below. If you haven’t seen the film, turn back now. Okay, we good? So yeah, Dumbledore apparently has a brother, and that brother is Credence. That’s…

  • ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’: The Convoluted Lestrange Lineage, Explained

    ‘Fantastic Beasts 2’: The Convoluted Lestrange Lineage, Explained

    Spoilers ahead for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Near the climax of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, we finally get a big exposition scene where the characters gather and secrets are revealed about family relations. There’s a tossed off prophecy that’s supposed to relate to Credence’s origin, and it’s what has him at…