The success of 2016`s Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them proved that movies set in the world of Harry Potter can succeed without the boy wizard. The sequel is titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, and it hit theaters later this year. We`re still waiting for a trailer, but in the meantime, Warner has released some new images.Most of the movie`s main characters are featured, including the young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law), the villainous Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp), Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Vinda Rosier (Poppy Corby-Tuech), Tina (Katherine Waterston), and Jacob (Dan Fogler). Check them out below:There has been some controversy about the casting of Depp, following allegations of domestic abuse made against the actor by his now-ex-wife Amber Heard. In December, director David Yates defended Depp`s involvement. `There was one person who took a pop at him and claimed something,` he said. `I can only tell you about the man I see every day: He`s full of decency and kindness, and that`s all I see. Whatever accusation was out there doesn`t tally with the kind of human being I`ve been working with.`Last week, Daniel Radcliffe, who played Potter in the original movies, commented on the issue. `It`s a very hard thing for me,` he told Entertainment Weekly. `[But] I can see why people are frustrated with the response that they were given from that. I`m not saying anything that anybody hasn`t already said--and this is a weird analogy to draw--[but] in the NFL, there are lots of players arrested for smoking weed and there is other people`s behavior that goes way beyond that and it`s tolerated because they`re very famous players. I suppose the thing I was struck by was, we did have a guy who was reprimanded for weed on the [original Potter] film, essentially, so obviously what Johnny has been accused of is much greater than that.`Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald releases on November 16, 2018 release, and, according to Potter creator JK ...
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