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![]() ![]() That third Fantastic Beasts film, again directed by David Yates but with longtime Harry Potter scribe/adapter Steve Kloves brought in to assist J.K. I’d wager the reason Return to Hogwarts is not airing today is that it’s going to essentially be the starting point in selling Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore. ![]() Save for Prisoner of Azkaban ($794 million), the middle sequels all earned between $880 million and $960 million. Sorcerer’s Stone crossed $1 billion last year thanks to a Chinese reissue, while Deathly Hallows part II earned $1.345 billion (behind only Titanic and Avatar at the time). Even the inflation-adjusted totals of the middle films (save for the first and last chapters) earned between $340 million and $420 million. Heck, the middle sequels ( Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows part I) grossed between $290 million and $302 million. Save for the third film (which grossed “just” $249 million in summer 2004) and the finale (which earned a 3-D enhanced $381 million in summer 2011), the Harry Potter films earned between $261 million ( Chamber of Secrets in 2002) and $318 million domestic ( Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001). While they were unquestionably successful, they didn’t really get out of Peter Jackson’s shadow until the release of The Order of the Phoenix in summer 2007, both because the film’s release coincided with the release of the seventh and final novel and because it was now assured that the franchise would actually make it to the end. At the time, the books were embroiled in now-laughable controversies from religious/conservative cultural warriors concerning their witchy content, and the first few films were eclipsed in the cultural conversation by Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Thanks to decent reviews and strong consumer buzz, the Chris Columbus-directed fantasy would leg out to $318 million domestic, the seventh-biggest domestic gross ever at that time and earn $974 million worldwide to come in behind only Titanic ($1.8 billion in 1997/1998) among global earners. ![]() (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage) WireImage HOLLYWOOD - JULY 09: Rupert Grint, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson at the Hand, Foot and Wand-Print Ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Jin Hollywood, California. ![]()
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