FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM - Apparently At The Theater! Great Movie!!

I thoroughly enjoyed FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM. It has enough Harry Potter DNA within it to give it some gravitas, yet it overflows with new ideas and dogma based on the magic community within North America.

The visual effects are jaw dropping in many scenes and some very imaginative minds were involved in creating them much to my pleasure! Good enough for an 'A' Cinema Score and Certified Fresh too.

If you are one of those movie goers who doesn't enjoy 3D unless it's dialed up a bit then you will enjoy BEASTS. In some areas, I felt it shouldn't be with so much depth, especially fast tracking scenes early on that may make you feel dizzy. But the movie as a whole does accomplish very nice things with 3D. I appreciated the effort. I felt the faces, even close up were superbly done.

BEASTS will apparently need more of those expanding suitcases for all the cash they are bringing in! $30 million on Friday to be exact - so that pegs the weekend at a potential $76m for the new "spinoff". Of course, being in the Potter universe doesn't hurt, does it? Clearly, sequels were set up as well. I am certainly looking forward to them.

And Eddie Redmayne? Superb as Newt Scamander!

Here's the movie's storyline:
The year is 1926 and Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident...were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM is playing now in RealD 3D.

MUST WATCH: Trailer For DEATHLY HALLOWS PT2!!

Nice day for trailer premieres! Love it!! Next up is the first trailer for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT2 and as expected, it does not disappoint.

Obviously much darker than the previous movies, Part 2 looks like it is going to pat Part 1 on the back and say "Nice try, but I've got this..."

My first impressions are clearly that this movie will have a ton of action. And IMPORTANT action. I won't give away details from the book, but there are some very significant events in this conclusion (should they all be inherited in the adaption of course).

Have a look!



DEATHLY HALLOWS will be the first of the movies to be officially released in 3D (conversion) in theaters as Part 1 had to open in 2D due to time constraints. Of course that conversion work is not lost and we will see it on the 3D Blu-ray release at some point. Further, word is that ALL of the series will be converted for 3D home entertainment! More on that when I hear it.

With JK Rowling thinking about writing further exploits I can't really see any reason why the phenomenon won't stop with this one. See you at the theater!

WATCH: New DEATHLY HALLOWS PT. 2 Featurette

My anticipation for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 is quite a bit larger than for PART 1. In fact, I almost view PART 1 as simply the warm up. I was not overly thrilled with the pacing of PART 1 and I am looking forward to the second half amping it up a bit!

So while we are waiting for PART 2's first trailer have a look at this brief featurette for the movie. As always, I wish there were more actual behind the scenes looks - camera crews, rigging, etc - but it is better than nothing!

PART 1 ended at Chapter 24 of the book, when Voldemort regained the Elder Wand (supposedly unbeatable) so we will see PART 2 pick up from there.

Enjoy the clip!