The man directed Home Alone and Mrs Doubtfire for god's sake, he knew what he was doing! With fantastic movies down the line, Prisoner of Azkaban, being the most obvious example, it's easy to forget Harry Potter's sequels were following a visual and stylistic template designed, in part, by the steady hand of Chris Columbus. Outside of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, is there a more iconic and memorable Williams theme? I'd argue no. Perhaps most importantly, we wouldn't have had the sublime John Williams score. We wouldn't have the perfectly pitched Harry Potter aesthetic. We wouldn't have had the tremendous, perfect casting of Daniel Radcliffe, Emily Watson and Rupert Grint without this movie.
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Wherever the series goes next, you can find some fantastic stuff here. Katherine Waterston and Ezra Miller provide intriguingly off-kilter support, and Colin Farrell is such a smolderingly seductive baddie it's a real shame Depp took over. It's also really well-cast: Eddie Redmayne is great as Newt Scamander, a big screen hero whose character is defined by gentleness, curiosity and compassion instead of violence and aggression. It gives fans and casual viewers a chance to enjoy the fantasy without being stuck in twee boarding school world, and the expanded look at Rowling's wizarding world comes with delightfully colorful creatures and a dandy retro fantasy vibe. And thanks to off-screen controversy (Rowling's outspoken views on Twitter, Johnny Depp's marital difficulties) the Fantastic Beasts series has sputtered like a wonky wand.īut we will say this: the first film is decent. When Warner Bros decided to turn Rowling's slim pamphlet into a sprawling multi-movie franchise, it could be seen as a return to the magic or cynical moneymaking sorcery. (Notably, there won't be a seat for Rowling.) The special, streamed from the London set of the first movie, will hit HBO Max on Jan. 16, 2001 - HBO Max announced it would give Harry Potter the Friends treatment and bring back the main cast, including Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint, for a reunion.
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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first movie - it premiered in the US Nov. Why stop at plain old Lego sets when you can stuff Lego into a Harry Potter-themed advent calendar? It saw words such as "Apparated" become part of the vernacular (at least among the Potterhead generation) and spawned everything from theme parks (stacked mainly with gift shops), to not-so-warmly-received prequel movies and even Lego advent calendars. Rowling's books, Apparated onto our screens. It's been 20 years since Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first of the Harry Potter film franchise based on J.K. The Harry Potter 20th Reunion special will hit HBO Max on New Year's Day.
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