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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Themâ takes us to a new era of J.K. RowlingâÂÂs Wizarding World, decades before Harry Potter and half a world away.Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (âÂÂThe Theory of Everything,â âÂÂThe Danish GirlâÂÂ) stars in the central role of Magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four âÂÂHarry Potterâ blockbusters.There are growing dangers in the wizarding world of 1926 New York. Something mysterious is leaving a path of destruction in the streets, threatening to expose the wizarding community to the No-Majs (American for Muggles), including the Second Salemers, a fanatical faction bent on eradicating them and the powerful, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald, after wreaking havoc in Europe, has slipped awa and is now nowhere to be found. Unaware of the rising tensions, Newt Scamander arrives in the city nearing the end of a global excursion to research and rescue magical creatures, some of which are safeguarded in the magical hidden dimensions of his deceptively nondescript leather case. But potential disaster strikes when unsuspecting No-Maj Jacob Kowalski inadvertently lets some of NewtâÂÂs beasts loose in a city already on edgeâÂÂa serious breach of the Statute of Secrecy that former Auror Tina Goldstein jumps on, seeing her chance to regain her post as an investigator. However, things take an ominous turn when Percival Graves, the enigmatic Director of Magical Security at MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America), casts his suspicions on both New and Tina.