30 Most Hotly Anticipated Movies Still To Come In 2016 - Ranked
2. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them
Release Date: December 18th
Billed As: Harry Potter without Harry Potter.
Hype: After the stunning success of mediocre Potterverse legacy script book The Cursed Child, Warner Bros must be rubbing their hands at the prospect of a film actually written by JK Rowling in the same universe.
The franchise has already made WB more than $8 billion, so it was always inevitable they'd seek a way to spin it off. And in Eddie Redmayne's Newt Scamander, they've found the perfect solution. He's like a fan-made grown-up amalgamation of Harry Potter and Ron Weasley for familiarity and he's in a whole new magical world for the sake of expansion.
There's a great cast, a director who knows exactly how to make this sort of film, and it's almost guaranteed to make a billion.