Fantastic Beasts 3 Box Office Lowest Opening Ever For Harry Potter Series
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has had the worst box office opening weekend of any Harry Potter film in cinema history. The Secrets of Dumbledore is the third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, which follows the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), and the eleventh film in the broader Wizarding World franchise, which includes the eight Harry Potter films starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular boy wizard. This new entry follows a young Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) organizing forces to face off against the dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) while explosive family secrets surrounding the parentage of young wizard Credence (Ezra Miller) are exposed.
The film has gone into its opening weekend amid a swirl of controversy involving those in front of and behind the camera. Primarily, LGBTQ+ groups and allies have been boycotting the film after Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made continuous transphobic posts on Twitter and her personal blog. However, Fantastic Beasts 2 star Johnny Depp was also removed and replaced with Mikkelsen after being involved in a lawsuit with The Sun after they ran an article about the accusations of abuse made by his ex-wife Amber Heard, who he has accused of defamation. Even more recently, star Ezra Miller has landed themselves in hot water after they were arrested in Hawaii and had a (later dropped) restraining order issued against them by a couple they were staying with, a news story that brought with it reports of «frequent meltdowns» on the set of The Flash2023.
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Per THR, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has now opened to a record low for the
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