Since it started in 2016, critical praise for the “Fantastic Beasts” series hasn’t panned out exactly as Warner Bros. anticipated.
Still, this is a “Harry Potter“-adjacent franchise, so it’s a cash cow, albeit not the biggest one in the studio’s pasture. The first in the series netted $816 million at the box office, and its 2018 sequel, “The Crimes Of Grindelwald,” $654 million, both on $200 million budgets.
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