Last September many were surprised by the news that JK Rowling had agreed to write the script for a spin-off from the Harry Potter series, based on one of the boy wizard’s textbooks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Now the slightly less surprising news comes that rather than a single movie, NYT in a profile Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara that Fantastic Beasts is being envisioned as a trilogy.
Rowling is already well on the way to getting the screenplay ready, as she told Emma Watson last month in an interview that she completed the first draft in just 12 weeks – she’d had help though, as she’d previously written a rough draft that she thought was just going to be for herself and her kid, but after Tsujihara convinced, will now become a set of movies.
In the Harry Potter books, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a book by the fictitious Newt Scamander. The films will follow Scamander and the magical creatures he tracks down.
It seems Michael Bay has decided the bots in his previous Transformers films simply weren’t big enough, as both the recent trailer and this new poster have tried to sell us on some truly huge machines.
Shortly after Magic Mike became a surprise hit, Channing Tatum started talking about making a sequel, and at one point it was even suggested it could have been his directorial debut. However its only now that the movie is ready to move forward, and Tatum won’t be at the helm.
While he popped up in Machete Kills and will be seen in Expendables 3, Mel Gibson has understandably been out in the wilderness for the last few years, with few people wanting to get the risk of working with him following the controversy that has dogged him.
Peter Dinklage’s star is certainly on the rise. Following his huge success in Game Of Thrones, he’s getting villainous this summer in X-Men: Days Of Future Past and now 
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Previously known as Animal Rescue (but understandably retitled as this is more crime thriller than a movie about saving cute critters), The Drop is also the final screen role for James Gandolfini, who stars alongside Tom Hardy and Noomi Rapace.
Film sets have become increasingly odd places, which often look nothing like they will in the final movie. That particularly true of movies using motion capture, where shooting involves a lot of people wearing leotards covered in dots.
