The upcoming Wizarding World sequel, Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald is set to make a magical debut this weekend, and it is expected to make a global box office debut of $250 million.
At the U.S. domestic box office, the film is expected to gross around $65 million to potentially as large as $75 million – around the same ballpark as 2016’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. With this sequel launching in around 48 different territories, this could help push its global opening weekend haul around $250 million.
November has been quite a significant month at the 2018 box office. So far, films such as Bohemian Rhapsody and The Grinch have been making a killing, and with Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald along the way as well as two heavy-hitters in Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and Creed II, this upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is going to be pretty massive.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has been receiving very mixed reviews from critics, with some criticizing the film for being overstuffed with too many characters and subplots.
Here is the synopsis for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald:
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans of raising pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings, Albus Dumbledore enlists his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided world.
Directed by David Yates with a script from J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald stars Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp, Ezra Miller, Jude Law, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, David Sakurai, Claudia Kim, Brontis Jodorowsky, Wolf Roth, Victoria Yeates, Derek Riddell, Poppy Corby-Tuech, and Cornell S. John.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald hits theaters on November 16, 2018.
Source: Variety
