Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them Opens To 6.9 Million

Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is getting off to a strong start overseas, [...]

By Matthew Aguilar

Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them is getting off to a strong start overseas, which bodes will for it's opening weekend tally.

The film opening up in nine markets on Wednesday, showing on 5,070 screens. It took in 6.9 million in those territories and came in number 1 in all of them (via Variety). $1.8 million of that came from France, while $1.7 million came from South Korea and $480,000 came from Indonesia. The film is slated to open in 38 more territories today, including countries like German,y Italy, and Australia, and will add another 16 on Friday.

Expectations are high for its final weekend totals, with the studio expecting Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them reeling in $200 million worldwide, and a $75 million opening weekend domestically. That's a great scenario, as the the film cost $180 million to produce, and that doesn't include marketing. The good news is that the film is opening right before the holiday season truly kicks off, and should have considerable legs.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling. Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four Harry Potter blockbusters. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident...were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

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Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them brings the world of magic to theaters on November 18.

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