Are you ready to re-enter the wizarding world of Harry Potter and discover more magical delights from the mind of J.K. Rowling?
This time the best-selling author uses a time-turner to travel back to seventy years before the 'Boy Who Lived' enrolled in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, with the start of a new cinematic franchise, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Eddie Redmayne stars as 'Newt Scamander' in 1926's New York City, where on a stopover from his global travels as a 'Magizoologist' results in an encounter with a 'No-Maj' (the American name for a 'Muggle') named 'Jacob Kowalski' and the escape of some of his fantastical creatures from his magical briefcase.
Not only will we get to explore a new time period in this new Harry Potter prequel spin-off, but we'll also be transported across the pond and see how America treats its magical population.

When a series of unfortunate events threaten to expose the witches and wizards to the No-Majs, Newt teams up with Jacob and the 'Goldstein' sisters (played by Katherine Waterson and Alison Sudol) to find his missing creatures and fend off the powerful Director of Magical Security (played by Colin Farrell) out to stop them.
David Yates directs this first installment, which has now been expanded to five films from the initial trilogy, and it sounds like he's also on board to direct the entire series which would make for some fantastic consistency of world building.
A teaser billboard for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was first spied at the Warner Bros. Studios lot in Burbank, California on September 3, then more billboards started popping up all over L.A. at the start of October and whole host of ad creatives materialised through November 3, 2016.
Daily Billboard also spotted a whole collection of billboards for the movie in and around Times Square and the streets of New York City on November 11, 2016.
In addition to all the standard bulletins and super-sized billboards, the movie also has this fantastic special 3D installation billboard (with the printing, engineering and production help of Midnight Oil agency and installation by Outfront), which helps cleverly convey the idea that some giant magical beast has smashed through the billboard and escaped.
This eye-catching concept brings to mind these other examples playing with the nature of the billboard hoarding, including this Bat-sign billboard for The Dark Knight Rises, this billboard for The Angry Birds movie and this Goosebumps movie billboard.
Fans of this ever-expanding wizarding universe can also enjoy these Harry Potter movie and theme park billboards and all these original Harry Potter movie costumes and props on display.
Admirers of the Oscar-winning British actor can also check out Eddie Redmayne in these Burberry fashion billboards.
If you know your Death Eaters from your Dementors, your Snatchers from your Golden Snitch, and your Horcruxes from your Deathly Hallows, then this will be a must-see movie event.
Get your wands at the ready and prepare to be spellbound at the cinema once again, let's hope this is the beginning of a new magical era.
UPDATED: Fans of the movie can also enjoy these original Fantastic Beasts movie costumes on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema.
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