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The highly anticipated prequel to the Harry Potter Franchise is bringing out all sorts of creatures to the big screen as fans flock the theaters opening weekend and help the movie take number one at the box office with 75 million domestically, as last week’s front-runners, Dr. Strange and Trolls, barely held on to the second and third places with 17 million each.

The latest film produced by J.K Rowling, delves into one of the many textbooks that Harry Potter and his friends study at Hogwarts and explores the journey to put together the manuscript as Newt Scamander, played by Eddie Redmayne, comes to America with his briefcase of many monsters.  While in America, Scamander discovers that the witches and wizards are underground from their muggle or as they call them nonmaj residents who fear magic and seek actively to find and kill them in a second Salem act.  Meanwhile, the children who possess magic are punished for it and so are turned into the monsters that are making the Witches Council of the United States of America scared of discovery especially when Scamander arrives and some of his creatures escape through a chance encounter with a nonmaj, Kowalski, played by Dan Fogler.

Now it’s up to Scamander and Kowalski to track down all of his creatures before the council gets a hold of them and destroys them.  At two hours and thirteen minutes, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them brings audiences even deeper into the Wizarding World with an up close and personal looking into the mysterious creatures that Harry Potter has only read about.  Set in the 1920’s America, it’s a movie that truly stands on its own.  The imagery of the creatures and the land inside Scamander’s briefcase will have audiences wishing they could be there to as Scamander introduces for the first time a nonmaj to his creatures in order to help him truly understand that they are not dangerous.

Fantastic Beats and Where To Find Them opened with nearly all theaters sold out at the Thursday night showings on November 17th and is currently playing in a theater near you.  See it and let the magic transform you.