‘Fantastic Beasts’ franchise ‘Parked,’ says ‘Harry Potter’ filmmaker

Fantastic animals Filmmaker David Yates told Total Film that the Harry Potter Spin-off feature franchise “has been parked.”

It’s a similar message to what he told us at TIFF, but it was about his involvement in the overall event Harry Potter Franchise. (Read: “It was a case of, ‘Let’s just wait it out and be done for a while,'” he told Deadline’s Natalie Sitek and Damon Wise.)

We have Warner Bros. contacted for an update on whether JK Rowling’s spin-off features are actually being shelved. The writer originally revealed at a pre-fan day for the film in 2016 with producer David Heyman that five were planned Fantastic animals Films set in five different cities.

Fantastic animals followed the adventures of author Newt Scamander (who wrote one of the Harry Potter textbooks) in New York’s secret society of witches and wizards. The picture takes place 70 years before Harry Potter reads his book at school; and the early days of Hogwarts Headmaster Allan Dumbledore are depicted in the film Fantastic animals Films.

“With Beasts everything is just parked,” Yates told Total Film; the filmmaker on a press trip or his new Netflix film Pain reliever with Emily Blunt and Chris Evans. “We made these three films, the last one during a pandemic, and it was a lot of fun, but also difficult.”

“We are all so proud of it [Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore]Yates was added to Total Film. “When it came into the world, we just had to stop and take it easy.”

The third film in which an Amber Heart suit-clad Johnny Depp traded Grindelwald for Mads Mikkelsen Fantastic animals: Dumbledore’s Secrets, was the lowest-grossing film in the franchise, hampered in part by the slow return of moviegoers during the pandemic. The final result was $95.8 million domestically and over $407 million overseas. The film received a theatrical window and was announced by David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, named the most watched film on Max after Jason Kilar forced the studio era of daily theatrical titles on Max during the pandemic in 2021.

Of the eight films, seven are based Harry Potter books, Yates directed the last four films, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and The Deadly Hallows, Parts One and Two (2010 and 2011). Yates ran the whole thing Fantastic animals Trilogy. In short, you can say he knows something about it potter: In the $9.7 billion franchise that includes both potter And fantastic animals, His films account for 63% of the franchise’s total worldwide box office, or $6.07 billion.

HBO, for one, is busy Harry Potter Current range on Max. It was announced in April, before the two strikes by WGA and SAG-AFTRA in Hollywood.

As for whether Yates will continue to be involved with this new series, he told Deadline, “Never say never” and that he’s “excited to continue outside of the fantasy chase car.”

“I have other projects on my desk that are miles away from wizards and involve all sorts of things that have nothing to do with wizards,” Yates added.