Since at least the 18th century (in French and German, as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks. In art, performance, and literature, however, grotesque may also refer to something that simultaneously invokes an audience feeling of uncomfortable bizarreness as well as sympathetic pity .
126-477: A goblin is a small, grotesque , monstrous humanoid creature that appears in the folklore of multiple European cultures. First attested in stories from the Middle Ages , they are ascribed conflicting abilities, temperaments, and appearances depending on the story and country of origin, ranging from mischievous household spirits to malicious, bestial thieves. They often have magical abilities similar to
252-470: A Goosebumps House of Shivers book called Goblin Monday which featured the goblins. They are depicted as short creatures with green fur, horns, pointy ears and cat-like eyes who assume human form to trick humans. In addition, the goblins can't deal with nutmeg as it is their only weakness. Grotesque The English word first appears in the 1560s as a noun borrowed from French, itself originally from
378-636: A Harry Potter –based play, and in June 2015 it was officially titled Harry Potter and the Cursed Child . The two-part, West End stage play , written by British playwright Jack Thorne , is based on an original story by Thorne, John Tiffany and Rowling. It is directed by Tiffany with choreography by Steven Hoggett , set design by Christine Jones , costume design by Katrina Lindsay, lighting design by Neil Austin, music by Imogen Heap , and sound design by Gareth Fry. The story begins nineteen years after
504-563: A fairy or demon , such as the ability to shapeshift . Similar creatures include brownies , dwarves , duendes , gnomes , imps , leprechauns , and kobolds , but it is also commonly used as a blanket term for all small, fay creatures. The term is sometimes expanded to include goblin-like creatures of other cultures, such as the pukwudgie , dokkaebi , or ifrit . Alternative spellings include gobblin , gobeline , gobling , goblyn , goblino , and gobbelin . The term "goblette" has been used to refer to female goblins. The word goblin
630-614: A loggia corridor space in the Apostolic Palace open to the elements on one side, were decorated around 1519 by Raphael 's large team of artists, with Giovanni da Udine the main hand involved. Because of the relative unimportance of the space, and a desire to copy the Domus Aurea style, no large paintings were used, and the surfaces were mostly covered with grotesque designs on a white background, with paintings imitating sculptures in niches, and small figurative subjects in
756-551: A mysterious chamber , hidden in the school, is opened leaving students and ghosts petrified by an unknown agent. They must solve the mystery of the chamber, and discover its entrance to find and defeat the true culprit. Columbus and Kloves returned as director, and screenwriter for the film adaptation of Chamber of Secrets . Just three days after the wide release of the first film, production began on 19 November 2001 in Surrey , England, with filming continuing on location on
882-556: A symmetrical pattern around some form of architectural framework, though this may be very flimsy. Such designs were fashionable in ancient Rome , especially as fresco wall decoration and floor mosaic. Stylized versions, common in Imperial Roman decoration, were decried by Vitruvius (c. 30 BC) who, in dismissing them as meaningless and illogical, offered the following description: For example, reeds are substituted for columns, fluted appendages with curly leaves and volutes take
1008-735: A "way out". The term " Theatre of the Grotesque " refers to an anti- naturalistic school of Italian dramatists, writing in the 1910s and 1920s, who are often seen as precursors of the Theatre of the Absurd . Characterized by ironic and macabre themes of daily life in the World War 1 era. Theatre of the Grotesque was named after the play 'The Mask and the Face' by Luigi Chiarelli, which was described as 'a grotesque in three acts.' Friedrich Dürrenmatt
1134-412: A Play , Best Lighting Design in a Play , Best Sound Design of a Play , and Best Direction of a Play . The play was also nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Parker), Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (Boyle), Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (Dumezweni), and Best Choreography . In December 2013, J. K. Rowling announced that she was working on
1260-473: A Supporting Role (Anthony Boyle), Best Costume Design , Best Set Design , Best Sound Design , and Best Lighting Design . The London production was also nominated for Best Theatre Choreographer and Outstanding Achievement in Music . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child received ten nominations at the 72nd Tony Awards , winning six awards: Best Play , Best Scenic Design in a Play , Best Costume Design in
1386-528: A cave, or grotte in Italian. The palace's wall decorations in fresco and delicate stucco were a revelation. The first appearance of the word grottesche appears in a contract of 1502 for the Piccolomini Library attached to the duomo of Siena . They were introduced by Raphael Sanzio and his team of decorative painters, who developed grottesche into a complete system of ornament in
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#17327802656361512-455: A diminutive or other derivative of the French proper name Gobel , more often Gobeau , diminutive forms Gobelet, Goblin, Goblot , but their signification is probably "somebody who sells tumblers or beakers or cups". Moreover, these proper names are not from Normandy, where the word gobelin, gobelinus first appears in the old documents. The Welsh coblyn , a type of knocker , derives from
1638-466: A direct continuation of the medieval traditions of the drolleries in the border decorations or initials in illuminated manuscripts . From this the term began to be applied to larger caricatures, such as those of Leonardo da Vinci , and the modern sense began to develop. It is first recorded in English in 1646 from Sir Thomas Browne : "In nature there are no grotesques". By extension backwards in time,
1764-801: A formal introduction to classical values and to the dangers of grotesque or mixed form. Indeed, the departure from classical models of order, reason, harmony, balance and form opens up the risk of entry into grotesque worlds. Accordingly, British literature abounds with native grotesquerie, from the strange worlds of Spenser 's allegory in The Faerie Queene to the tragi-comic modes of 16th-century drama. (Grotesque comic elements can be found in major works such as King Lear .) Literary works of mixed genre are occasionally termed grotesque, as are "low" or non-literary genres such as pantomime and farce. Gothic writings often have grotesque components in terms of character, style and location. In other cases,
1890-512: A great draft but it did show the shape of how it might look. So that is how it all started." In March 2014, it was revealed that a trilogy was scheduled with the first instalment set in New York. The film sees the return of producer David Heyman, as well as writer Steve Kloves, both veterans of the Potter film series. In June 2015, Eddie Redmayne was cast in the lead role of Newt Scamander ,
2016-648: A group of themed areas at Universal Destinations & Experiences based on the Harry Potter media franchise, adapting elements from the film series and original novels by Rowling. The areas were designed by Universal Creative under an exclusive licence with Warner Bros. Entertainment . It opened on 18 June 2010 as an expansion to the Universal Islands of Adventure theme park at Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida, and on 8 July 2014 at
2142-564: A half hours, and the tour has the capacity to handle 6,000 visitors daily. TripAdvisor reported that it has been the highest-rated attraction worldwide every year since the tour opened. Announced in August 2020, Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter is an upcoming attraction in Tokyo , Japan scheduled to open in the first half of 2023. Similar to its counterpart in London,
2268-606: A horse is given legs made of leaves, a man has crane's legs, with countless other impossible absurdities; and the bizarrer the painter's imagination, the higher he was rated". Vasari recorded that Francesco Ubertini, called "Bacchiacca" , delighted in inventing grotteschi , and (about 1545) painted for Duke Cosimo de' Medici a studiolo in a mezzanine at the Palazzo Vecchio "full of animals and rare plants". Other 16th-century writers on grottesche included Daniele Barbaro , Pirro Ligorio and Gian Paolo Lomazzo . In
2394-488: A new shape with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , when a girl meets fantastic grotesque figures in her fantasy world. Carroll manages to make the figures seem less frightful and fit for children's literature , but still utterly strange. Another comic grotesque writer who played on the relationship between sense and nonsense was Edward Lear . Humorous, or festive nonsense of this kind has its roots in
2520-476: A revival of Ancient Roman style. This large array provided a repertoire of elements that were the basis for later artists across Europe. In Michelangelo's Medici Chapel Giovanni da Udine composed during 1532–1533 "most beautiful sprays of foliage, rosettes and other ornaments in stucco and gold" in the coffers and "sprays of foliage, birds, masks and figures", with a result that did not please Pope Clement VII Medici , however, nor Giorgio Vasari , who whitewashed
2646-541: A sense of the grotesque clash of opposites. In a similar fashion, Ernst Friedrich (1894–1967), founder of the Berlin Peace Museum, an anarchist and a pacifist, was the author of War Against War (1924) which used grotesque photographs of mutilated victims of the First World War in order to campaign for peace. Southern Gothic is a genre frequently identified with grotesques and William Faulkner
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#17327802656362772-424: A single property, earning over $ 7.7 billion at the box office; Harry Potter has also generated at least $ 3.9 billion in home video revenue, taking total consumer spending on the films to over $ 11 billion. Harry Potter also has a series average of over $ 1 billion per film when adjusted for inflation. The Deathly Hallows – Part 2 grossed over $ 1.3 billion becoming the third-highest-grossing film of all time,
2898-476: A stop to Grindelwald. The film was announced in March 2014 as the second instalment in the series. In October 2016, it was revealed that Yates and Rowling would return as director, and screenwriter and co-producer, and Redmayne would be returning to play the lead role of Newt Scamander in all the series' films. In November 2016, it was confirmed that Johnny Depp would reprise his role as Gellert Grindelwald from
3024-810: A strangely annotated school textbook, previously owned by the "Half-Blood Prince". In July 2007, it was announced that Yates would return as director. Kloves returned to write the screenplay after skipping out of the fifth film, with Heyman and David Barron back as producers. Watson considered not returning for the film, but eventually signed on after Warner Bros. moved the production schedule to accommodate her exam dates. Principal photography began on 24 September 2007, and concluded on 17 May 2008. Though Radcliffe, Gambon and Jim Broadbent (Slughorn) started shooting in late September 2007, other cast members started much later: Watson did not begin until December 2007, Alan Rickman ( Severus Snape ) until January 2008, and Bonham Carter until February 2008. Harry Potter and
3150-470: A tablet or candelabrum might provide a focus; frames were extended into scrolls that formed part of the surrounding designs as a kind of scaffold, as Peter Ward-Jackson noted. Light scrolling grotesques could be ordered by confining them within the framing of a pilaster to give them more structure. Giovanni da Udine took up the theme of grotesques in decorating the Villa Madama , the most influential of
3276-531: A three-name short list for Columbus' replacement, which comprised Callie Khouri , Kenneth Branagh (who played Gilderoy Lockhart in Chamber of Secrets ) and the eventual director Alfonso Cuarón . Cuarón was initially nervous about accepting the job having not read any of the books, or seen the films, but later signed on after reading the series and connecting immediately with the story. Michael Gambon replaced Richard Harris , who played Albus Dumbledore in
3402-528: A total of 14 Academy Awards . Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them won for Best Costume Design in 2017 , becoming the first film in the Wizarding World to win an Academy Award. Before the win in 2017, the franchise was the most- snubbed , top-grossing franchise of all time at the Academy Awards, with 12 nominations and zero wins. The franchise has earned a total of 34 nominations at
3528-535: A website announcing an upcoming project called Pottermore, where all future Harry Potter projects, and all electronic downloads, would be concentrated. Pottermore opened to the general public on 14 April 2012. Pottermore allows users to be sorted, be chosen by their wand and play various minigames. The main purpose of the website was to allow the user to journey through the story with access to content not revealed by J. K. Rowling previously, with over 18,000 words of information on characters, places and objects in
3654-411: Is a major author of contemporary grotesque comedy plays. In architecture the term "grotesque" means a carved stone figure. Grotesques are often confused with gargoyles , but the distinction is that gargoyles are figures that contain a water spout through the mouth, while grotesques do not. Without a water spout, this type of sculpture is also known as a chimera when it depicts fantastical creatures. In
3780-686: Is a well-known supervillain , one of the archenemies of Spider-Man , who has various abilities including enhanced stamina, durability, agility, reflexes and superhuman strength due to ingesting a substance known as the "Goblin Formula". He has appeared in various Spider-Man related media, such as comics, television series, video games, and films, including Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) as Norman Osborn , and Spider-Man 3 (2007) and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) as Harry Osborn . There have been other goblin-related characters like Hobgoblin , Grey Goblin , and Menace . In
3906-622: Is an immense variety of motifs and figures, the three main tropes of the grotesque are doubleness, hybridity and metamorphosis. Beyond the current understanding of the grotesque as an aesthetic category, he demonstrated how the grotesque functions as a fundamental existential experience. Moreover, Astruc identifies the grotesque as a crucial, and potentially universal, anthropological device that societies have used to conceptualize alterity and change. In art, grotesques are ornamental arrangements of arabesques with interlaced garlands and small and fantastic human and animal figures, usually set out in
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4032-513: Is at this point that a grotesque creature such as Frankenstein's monster begins to be presented more sympathetically as the outsider who is the victim of society. But the novel also makes the issue of sympathy problematic in an unkind society. This means that society becomes the generator of the grotesque, by a process of alienation. In fact, the grotesque monster in Frankenstein tends to be described as "the creature". The grotesque received
4158-672: Is first recorded in the 14th century and is probably from unattested Anglo-Norman *gobelin , similar to Old French gobelin , already attested around 1195 in Ambroise of Normandy 's Guerre sainte , and to Medieval Latin gobelinus in Orderic Vitalis before 1141, which was the name of a devil or daemon haunting the country around Évreux , Normandy. It may be related both to German kobold and to Medieval Latin cabalus - or *gobalus , itself from Greek κόβαλος ( kobalos ), "rogue", "knave", "imp", "goblin". German Kobold contains
4284-514: Is forced to compete with three other wizards chosen by the Goblet of Fire – Fleur Delacour , Viktor Krum , and Cedric Diggory . In August 2003, British film director Mike Newell was chosen to direct the film after Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón announced that he would not direct the sequel. Heyman returned to produce, and Kloves again wrote the screenplay. Principal photography began on 4 May 2004. Scenes involving
4410-583: Is often cited as the leading exponent. Flannery O'Connor wrote, "Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one" ( Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction , 1960). In O'Connor's often-anthologized short story A Good Man Is Hard to Find , the Misfit, a serial killer, is clearly a maimed soul, utterly callous to human life, but driven to seek
4536-406: Is performed by a skillful artist." The delight of Mannerist artists and their patrons in arcane iconographic programs available only to the erudite could be embodied in schemes of grottesche , Andrea Alciato 's Emblemata (1522) offered ready-made iconographic shorthand for vignettes. More familiar material for grotesques could be drawn from Ovid's Metamorphoses . The Vatican loggias ,
4662-528: Is rescued by Rubeus Hagrid from his unkind Muggle relatives, Uncle Vernon , Aunt Petunia , and his cousin Dudley , and takes his place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , where he and his friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger become entangled in the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone , which is being kept within the school. In October 1998, Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to
4788-488: Is simply a villain or a monster .) Obvious examples would include the physically deformed and the mentally deficient, but people with cringe-worthy social traits are also included. The reader becomes piqued by the grotesque's positive side, and continues reading to see if the character can conquer their darker side. In Shakespeare's The Tempest , the figure of Caliban has inspired more nuanced reactions than simple scorn and disgust. Also, in J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Lord of
4914-534: The Harry Potter book series and the shared universe in which its film adaptations are set, goblins are depicted as strange, but civilised, humanoids who often serve as bankers or craftsmen. In Terry Pratchett 's Discworld series, goblins are initially a despised and shunned subterranean race; however, in later books, goblins are eventually integrated with the other races, and their mechanical and engineering talents come to be valued. The Green Goblin
5040-521: The 74th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards . At the 1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards , Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses won the award for Outstanding Lighting Design for a Live Action Program and Helen Mirren won the award for Outstanding Host for hosting the series. The franchise has received a total of eight Grammy Award nominations; seven for films in the Harry Potter series with various composers nominated ( John Williams , Nicholas Hooper , Alexandre Desplat ) and one for
5166-715: The Australian Classification Board (ACB), and a 12A by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) for its dark themes, fantasy violence, threat and frightening images. Harry returns for his fifth year at Hogwarts and discovers that the Wizarding World is in denial of Voldemort's return. He takes matters into his own hands and starts a secret organisation to stand up against the regime of Hogwarts' "High Inquisitor" Dolores Umbridge , as well as to learn practical Defence Against
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5292-614: The BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Awards , with Yates winning the Britannia Award for Artistic Excellence in Directing for his four Harry Potter films. Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts received a nomination for Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards as well as a nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing for Variety Programming at
5418-613: The British Academy Film Awards presented at the annual BAFTAs , winning three. At the 64th British Academy Film Awards in February 2011, Rowling, producers Heyman and Barron, along with directors Yates, Newell and Cuarón collected the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema in honour of the Harry Potter film series. The Harry Potter series was also recognised by
5544-596: The COVID-19 pandemic prompted Warner Bros. to postpone production of its third Fantastic Beasts film. This made the film to be postponed again, from a 12 November 2021 to a 15 July 2022 release. On 20 August 2020, filming was confirmed to start in September. On 20 September 2020, Eddie Redmayne confirmed that filming was two weeks underway with safety precautions in place to keep the cast and crew safe from COVID-19. Johnny Depp announced on 6 November 2020 that he left
5670-611: The Domus Aurea , the unfinished palace complex started by Nero after the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, which had become overgrown and buried, until they were broken into again, mostly from above. Spreading from Italian to the other European languages, the term was long used largely interchangeably with arabesque and moresque for types of decorative patterns using curving foliage elements. Rémi Astruc has argued that although there
5796-618: The Fantastic Beasts series. The films are written and directed by several individuals and feature large, often ensemble , casts. Many of the actors, including Daniel Radcliffe , Rupert Grint , Emma Watson , Tom Felton , Michael Gambon , Ralph Fiennes , Alan Rickman , Maggie Smith , Helena Bonham Carter , Gary Oldman , Eddie Redmayne , Katherine Waterston , Alison Sudol , and Dan Fogler star in numerous films. Additionally, Jude Law and Johnny Depp feature in two films each. Soundtrack albums have been released for each of
5922-585: The Harry Potter novels and three are part of the Fantastic Beasts series . The films are owned and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures . The series has collectively grossed over $ 9.6 billion at the global box office, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film franchise of all time (behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe , Spider-Man and Star Wars ). David Heyman and his company Heyday Films have produced every film in
6048-470: The Harry Potter universe. In September 2015, the website launched a newly designed site containing news, features and articles plus previously unreleased writing by Rowling and removed some features including the interactive Moment illustrations, House Cup and Sorting ceremony. A newly designed Sorting Ceremony was subsequently launched on 28 January 2016 in which users could reclaim their old house or be re-sorted. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter are
6174-638: The Isle of Man and at several other locations in Great Britain. Leavesden Film Studios in London made several scenes for Hogwarts. Principal photography concluded in the summer of 2002. The film spent until early October in post-production . Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets premiered in the United Kingdom on 3 November 2002 before its wide release on 15 November, one year after
6300-628: The Loggias that are part of the series of Raphael's Rooms in the Vatican Palace , Rome. "The decorations astonished and charmed a generation of artists that was familiar with the grammar of the classical orders but had not guessed till then that in their private houses the Romans had often disregarded those rules and had adopted instead a more fanciful and informal style that was all lightness, elegance and grace." In these grotesque decorations
6426-537: The Marvel Cinematic Universe films , the Star Wars films and the Spider-Man films. The first ten films emerged as commercial successes at the box office with the majority of the films grossing over $ 790 million, and all but The Prisoner of Azkaban and Fantastic Beasts at some point ranked among the ten highest-grossing films of all time . The Harry Potter films are the highest-grossing series based on
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#17327802656366552-444: The Philosopher's Stone . A mysterious convict, Sirius Black , escapes from Azkaban and sets his sights on Hogwarts, where dementors are stationed to protect Harry and his peers. Harry learns more about his past and his connection with the escaped prisoner. Columbus, the director of the two previous films, decided not to return to helm the third instalment, but remained as a producer alongside Heyman. Warner Bros. then drew up
6678-747: The Universal Studios Beijing theme park in Beijing, China. The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter opened on 31 March 2012 in Leavesden , southeast England with a grand opening that featured many of the Harry Potter cast and crew. It houses a permanent exhibit of authentic costumes, props and sets utilized in the production of the Harry Potter films , as well as behind-the-scenes production of visual effects. Each tour session typically lasts three and
6804-678: The Universal Studios Florida theme park. In January 2024, Universal Orlando Resort announced another expansion titled The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic , which is scheduled to open in 2025 at the Universal Epic Universe theme park. The area will blend the British Ministry of Magic with the 1920s wizarding Paris from the Fantastic Beasts film series. On 15 July 2014, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at
6930-795: The Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka, Japan. It includes the village of Hogsmeade , the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride, and the Flight of the Hippogriff roller coaster. On 7 April 2016, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park near Los Angeles, California. On 20 September 2021, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opened at
7056-693: The Wizarding World series. Chris Columbus and Mark Radcliffe served as producers on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , David Barron began producing the films with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007 and ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011, and Rowling produced the final two films in the Harry Potter series. Heyman, Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram have produced all three films in
7182-486: The bizarro genre of fiction . Other contemporary writers who have explored the grotesque in pop-culture are John Docker , in the context of postmodernism; Cintra Wilson , who analyzes celebrity; and Francis Sanzaro , who discusses its relation to childbirth and obscenity. Alien Resurrection (1997) is the only film rated by the MPAA to have "grotesque images" in its rating description, mainly due to its depiction of
7308-490: The spurred "G" ), whereas popular neo-grotesque typefaces include Arial , Helvetica , and Verdana . Wizarding World The Wizarding World (previously known as J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World ) is a fantasy media franchise and shared fictional universe centred on the Harry Potter novel series by J. K. Rowling . A series of films have been in production since 2000, and in that time eleven films have been produced—eight are adaptations of
7434-493: The "genuine antibourgeois style". Some of the earliest written texts describe grotesque happenings and monstrous creatures. The literature of myth has been a rich source of monsters; from the one-eyed Cyclops from Hesiod 's Theogony to Homer's Polyphemus in the Odyssey . Ovid 's Metamorphoses is another rich source for grotesque transformations and hybrid creatures of myth. Horace 's Art of Poetry also provides
7560-489: The "grotesque" figures, in the ordinary conversational sense, commonly appear in the genre grotesque art , also known as fantastic art . One of the first uses of the term grotesque to denote a literary genre is in Montaigne's Essays . The Grotesque is often linked with satire and tragicomedy . It is an effective artistic means to convey grief and pain to the audience, and for this has been labeled by Thomas Mann as
7686-424: The 17th and 18th centuries the grotesque encompasses a wide field of teratology (science of monsters) and artistic experimentation. The monstrous, for instance, often occurs as the notion of play . The sportiveness of the grotesque category can be seen in the notion of the preternatural category of the lusus naturae , in natural history writings and in cabinets of curiosities. The last vestiges of romance, such as
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#17327802656367812-440: The Chamber of Secrets in 2002 and ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011, nearly ten years after the first film's release. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) is the first film in the spin-off /prequel Fantastic Beasts series. A sequel, titled Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald , was released on 16 November 2018. A third film, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
7938-590: The Dark Arts (D.A.D.A) for the forthcoming battle. Daniel Radcliffe confirmed he would return as Harry Potter in May 2005, with Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Matthew Lewis ( Neville Longbottom ), and Bonnie Wright ( Ginny Weasley ) confirmed to return in November 2005. In February 2006, Helen McCrory was cast as Bellatrix Lestrange , but dropped out due to her pregnancy. In May 2006, Helena Bonham Carter
8064-522: The Germanic root kov- (Middle German Kobe "refuge, cavity", "hollow in a rock", Dial. English cove "hollow in a rock", English "sheltered recess on a coast", Old Norse kofi "hut, shed" ) which means originally a "hollow in the earth". The word is probably related to Dial. Norman gobe "hollow in a cliff", with simple suffix -lin or double suffixation -el-in (cf. Norman surnames Beuzelin , Gosselin , Étancelin , etc.) Alternatively, it may be
8190-642: The Half-Blood Prince had its world premiere on 6 July 2009 in Tokyo, Japan, and was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 15 July. Harry, Ron, and Hermione leave Hogwarts behind and set out to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's secret to immortality – the Horcruxes . The trio undergo a long journey with many obstacles in their path including Death Eaters, Snatchers,
8316-429: The Italian grottesca (literally "of a cave" from the Italian grotta , 'cave'; see grotto ), an extravagant style of ancient Roman decorative art rediscovered at Rome at the end of the fifteenth century and subsequently imitated. The word was first used of paintings found on the walls of basements of ruins in Rome that were called at that time le Grotte ('the caves'). These 'caves' were in fact rooms and corridors of
8442-561: The Middle Ages, the term babewyn was used to refer to both gargoyles and grotesques. This word is derived from the Italian word babbuino , which means " baboon ". The word "grotesque", or "Grotesk" in German, is also frequently used as a synonym for sans-serif in typography . At other times, it is used (along with "neo-grotesque", "humanist", " lineal ", and "geometric") to describe a particular style or subset of sans-serif typefaces. The origin of this association can be traced back to English typefounder William Thorowgood , who introduced
8568-474: The Newborn xenomorph and the failed clones of Ellen Ripley , who all featured grotesque human–alien ( hybrid ) characteristics. Grotesque manner also can be found at Disney's famous ride, The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland, Walt Disney World and other theme parks, where some of its details may contain a symbolism of Memento Mori , Samsara's circle or themes describing the fragility of human existence, passions that baffle and how they could be avoided or find
8694-401: The Old French gobelin via the English goblin . In J. R. R. Tolkien 's The Hobbit the evil creatures living in the Misty Mountains are referred to as goblins. In The Lord of the Rings , the same creatures are primarily referred to as orcs where the goblin name was used for the lesser orcs. Goblinoids are a category of humanoid legendary creatures related to the goblin. The term
8820-568: The Order of the Phoenix had its world premiere on 28 June 2007 in Tokyo, Japan, and a UK premiere on 3 July 2007 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. The film was released in the United Kingdom on 12 July, and the United States on 11 July. Voldemort and his Death Eaters are increasing their terror upon the Wizarding and Muggle worlds. Needing him for an important reason, Headmaster Dumbledore persuades his old friend Horace Slughorn to return to his prior post at Hogwarts. During Slughorn's Potions class, Harry takes possession of
8946-460: The Phoenix , and The Half-Blood Prince were the second highest-grossing films of 2002 , 2004 , 2007 , and 2009 . The Deathly Hallows – Part 1 was the third-highest-grossing film of 2010 , (behind Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland ) , Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was the eighth highest-grossing film of 2016 , and The Crimes of Grindelwald was the tenth highest-grossing film of 2018 . The Secrets of Dumbledore
9072-584: The Prisoner of Azkaban premiered on 23 May 2004 in New York. It was released in the United Kingdom on 31 May, and in the United States on 4 June. It was the first film in the series to be released in both conventional and IMAX theatres. After the Quidditch World Cup, Harry arrives back at Hogwarts and finds himself entered in the Triwizard Tournament , a challenging competition involving completing three dangerous tasks. Harry
9198-451: The Rings , the character of Gollum may be considered to have both disgusting and empathetic qualities, which fit the grotesque template. Victor Hugo 's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is one of the most celebrated grotesques in literature. Dr. Frankenstein's monster from Mary Shelley 's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus can also be considered a grotesque, as well as
9324-539: The Wizarding World's preeminent magizoologist. Other cast members include: Katherine Waterston as Tina Goldstein , Alison Sudol as Queenie Goldstein, Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski, Ezra Miller as Credence Barebone, Samantha Morton as Mary Lou Barebone, Jenn Murray as Chastity Barebone, Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty Barebone, and Colin Farrell as Percival Graves. Principal photography began on 17 August 2015, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden. After two months,
9450-493: The airy well-spaced style used by the Romans and Raphael. Soon grottesche appeared in marquetry (fine woodwork), in maiolica produced above all at Urbino from the late 1520s, then in book illustration and in other decorative uses. At Fontainebleau Rosso Fiorentino and his team enriched the vocabulary of grotesques by combining them with the decorative form of strapwork , the portrayal of leather straps in plaster or wood moldings, which forms an element in grotesques. In
9576-551: The end of the Harry Potter series after ten years of filming. The film had its world premiere on 7 July 2011 in Trafalgar Square in London, and a U.S. premiere on 11 July at Lincoln Center in New York City. Although filmed in 2D, the film was converted into 3D in post-production and was released in both RealD 3D and IMAX 3D, becoming the first film in the series to be released in this format. The film
9702-600: The environment described may be grotesque – whether urban ( Charles Dickens ), or the literature of the American south which has sometimes been termed " Southern Gothic ". Sometimes the grotesque in literature has been explored in terms of social and cultural formations such as the carnival(-esque) in François Rabelais and Mikhail Bakhtin . Terry Castle has written on the relationship between metamorphosis, literary writings and masquerade. Another major source of
9828-487: The events of Deathly Hallows and follows Harry Potter, now a Ministry of Magic employee, and his younger son Albus Severus Potter , who is about to attend Hogwarts. On 20 December 2015, it was announced that Jamie Parker , Noma Dumezweni and Paul Thornley would play Harry Potter , Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley respectively. The play debuted at the Palace Theatre, London on 7 June 2016 in previews, with
9954-499: The film at the request of Warner Bros. Studios. This was the result of Depp losing a libel lawsuit in the UK. On 25 November 2020, Warner Bros. announced that Mads Mikkelsen would replace Depp in the role of Grindelwald. On 3 February 2021, filming in the UK was shut down after a production member tested positive for COVID-19. Composer James Newton Howard confirmed later that month that production had wrapped filming. In September 2021,
10080-460: The film over 4 July 2001 weekend, making for such a short production window that several proposed directors removed themselves from consideration. Because of time constraints, the date was put back, and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 16 November 2001. Harry, Ron, and Hermione return to Hogwarts for their second year, but
10206-586: The film's principal actors began shooting on 25 June 2004 at England's Leavesden Film Studios. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire premiered on 6 November 2005 in London, and was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 18 November. Goblet of Fire was the first film in the series to receive a PG-13 rating by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) for "sequences of fantasy violence and frightening images," M by
10332-400: The film's release was pushed forward three months to 15 April 2022, alongside the announcement of the full title. It premiered one week early in a few European and Asian countries. In October 2016, Rowling announced that the Fantastic Beasts film series would be composed of five films, later confirming that the story of the series would consist of a sequence of events that occurred between
10458-474: The films. The franchise also includes a stage production ( Harry Potter and the Cursed Child ), a digital publication , a video game label and The Wizarding World of Harry Potter –themed areas at several Universal Destinations & Experiences amusement parks around the world. The first film in the Wizarding World was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), which was followed by seven Harry Potter sequels, beginning with Harry Potter and
10584-430: The first film, which was released on 1 January 2022. 14 November 2024 started food show Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking . This section includes characters who will appear or have appeared in multiple Wizarding World media. As of 2022 , the first eleven Wizarding World films have collectively grossed over $ 9.6 billion at the global box office, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film franchise of all time behind
10710-472: The first four novels of the Harry Potter fantasy series by J. K. Rowling for a seven-figure sum, after a pitch from producer David Heyman . Warner Bros. took particular notice of Rowling's wishes and thoughts about the films when drafting her contract. One of her principal stipulations was that they are shot in Britain with an all-British cast, which has been generally adhered to. On 8 August 2000,
10836-487: The first instalment. Later that same month it was also announced that Albus Dumbledore would be appearing in future instalments, albeit with a younger actor for the prequel film series. In April 2017, it was confirmed that Jude Law had been cast as Dumbledore. The film takes place in New York City, Britain, and Paris. Principal photography began on 3 July 2017, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, and wrapped on 20 December 2017. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
10962-433: The grotesque decor in 1556. Counter Reformation writers on the arts, notably Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti , bishop of Bologna, turned upon grottesche with a righteous vengeance. Vasari, echoing Vitruvius, described the style as follows: "Grotesques are a type of extremely licentious and absurd painting done by the ancients ... without any logic, so that a weight is attached to a thin thread which could not support it,
11088-490: The grotesque is in satirical writings of the 18th century. Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels provides a variety of approaches to grotesque representation. Corporeal hybridity is an essential marker in Swift. In poetry, the works of Alexander Pope provide many examples of the grotesque. In fiction, characters are usually considered grotesque if they induce both empathy and disgust. (A character who inspires disgust alone
11214-492: The highest-grossing film in the Wizarding World franchise, and the highest-grossing film of 2011 . In the United States and Canada, it set a single-day and opening-weekend record, with $ 91.1 million and $ 169.2 million. In addition, the film set a worldwide opening-weekend record with $ 483.2 million. The Philosopher's Stone and The Goblet of Fire were also the highest-grossing films of 2001 and 2005 ; while The Chamber of Secrets , The Prisoner of Azkaban , The Order of
11340-472: The home front became commonplace. The accompanying growth in the prosthetic industry struck contemporaries as creating a race of half-mechanical men and became an important theme in dadaist work.' The poetry of Wilfred Owen displays a poetic and realistic sense of the grotesque horror of war and the human cost of brutal conflict. Poems such as Spring Offensive and Greater Love combined images of beauty with shocking brutality and violence in order to produce
11466-399: The marvellous also provide opportunities for the presentation of the grotesque in, for instance, operatic spectacle. The mixed form of the novel was commonly described as grotesque – see for instance Fielding's "comic epic poem in prose" ( Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones ). Grotesque ornament received a further impetus from new discoveries of original Roman frescoes and stucchi at Pompeii and
11592-610: The meantime, through the medium of engravings the grotesque mode of surface ornament passed into the European artistic repertory of the 16th century, from Spain to Poland. A classic suite was that attributed to Enea Vico , published in 1540–41 under an evocative explanatory title, Leviores et extemporaneae picturae quas grotteschas vulgo vocant , "Light and extemporaneous pictures that are vulgarly called grotesques". Later Mannerist versions, especially in engraving, tended to lose that initial lightness and be much more densely filled than
11718-404: The musical Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , composed by Imogen Heap . Harry Potter and the Cursed Child garnered eleven Laurence Olivier Awards nominations at the 2017 ceremony , tying the record set in 2008 by Hairspray , and won a record-breaking nine: Best New Play , Best Director , Best Actor (Jamie Parker), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Noma Dumezweni), Best Actor in
11844-504: The mysterious Deathly Hallows , and Harry's connection with the Dark Lord's mind becoming ever stronger. Originally scheduled for a single theatrical release, on 13 March 2008, Warner Bros. announced that the film adaptation of Deathly Hallows would be split into two parts to do justice to the book and out of respect for its fans. Yates, director of the previous two films, was confirmed to return as director, and Kloves
11970-626: The new Roman villas. In the 16th century, such artistic license and irrationality was controversial matter. Francisco de Holanda puts a defense in the mouth of Michelangelo in his third dialogue of Da Pintura Antiga , 1548: "this insatiable desire of man sometimes prefers to an ordinary building, with its pillars and doors, one falsely constructed in grotesque style, with pillars formed of children growing out of stalks of flowers, with architraves and cornices of branches of myrtle and doorways of reeds and other things, all seeming impossible and contrary to reason, yet it may be really great work if it
12096-493: The official opening on 30 July. The script was released in book form the day after the play's world premiere. The play opened on Broadway at the redesigned Lyric Theatre , New York City on 22 April 2018. Parker, Dumezweni, and Thornley reprised their roles on Broadway with Poppy Miller , Sam Clemmett , Alex Price , and Anthony Boyle also reprising their roles as Ginny Potter , Albus Potter, Draco Malfoy , and Scorpius Malfoy , respectively. In June 2011, Rowling launched
12222-552: The other buried sites round Mount Vesuvius from the middle of the century. It continued in use, becoming increasingly heavy, in the Empire Style and then in the Victorian period, when designs often became as densely packed as in 16th-century engravings, and the elegance and fancy of the style tended to be lost. Artists began to give the tiny faces of the figures in grotesque decorations strange caricatured expressions, in
12348-489: The place of pediments, candelabra support representations of shrines, and on top of their roofs grow slender stalks and volutes with human figures senselessly seated upon them. Emperor Nero 's palace in Rome, the Domus Aurea , was rediscovered by chance in the late 15th century, buried in fifteen hundred years of land fill. Access into the palace's remains was from above, requiring visitors to be lowered into it using ropes as in
12474-517: The previous two films, after Harris's death in October 2002. Gambon was unconcerned with bettering or copying Harris, instead provided his own interpretation, including using a slight Irish accent for the role. He completed his scenes in three weeks. Gary Oldman was cast in the key role of Sirius Black in February 2003. Principal photography began on 24 February 2003, at Leavesden Film Studios, and concluded in October 2003. Harry Potter and
12600-446: The production as an executive producer, with the author stating that she is "looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series". The show is expected to release in 2026. On 25 June 2024, it was announced that the series has been moved from Max to HBO . On 26 June 2024, Francesca Gardiner was announced to be series showrunner , Mark Mylod
12726-562: The production moved to St George's Hall in Liverpool, which was transformed into 1920s New York City. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was released worldwide on 18 November 2016. A few months have passed since the events of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them . Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause – elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. Dumbledore must seek help from his former student Newt to put
12852-420: The questions left unsolved in the first two. In October 2019, Dan Fogler claimed that principal photography on the third film would begin in February 2020. In November 2019, it was announced that the script had been written by both J. K. Rowling and Steve Kloves , the latter of whom returned after being absent as a writer on the first two. On 16 March 2020, the very day that principal photography would begin,
12978-619: The screenplay. Kloves started work on the second part's script in April 2009, after the first part's script was completed. Deathly Hallows – Part 2 was filmed back-to-back with Deathly Hallows – Part 1 from 19 February 2009 to 12 June 2010, and treated as if it were one film during principal photography. Reshoots were confirmed to begin in the winter of 2010 for the film's final, and epilogue scenes, which had originally taken place at London King's Cross station . The filming took place at Leavesden Film Studios on 21 December 2010, marking
13104-424: The second studio location for shooting the seventh film. Harry, Ron, and Hermione continue their search to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes, as Harry prepares for the final battle against Voldemort. The film was announced in March 2008 as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 , the second of two cinematic parts . It was also revealed that Yates would direct the film and that Kloves would write
13230-502: The series' first film, filled in to write the script. Principal photography began on 7 February 2006, and concluded at the start of December 2006. Filming was put on a two-month hiatus starting in May 2006 so Radcliffe could sit his AS Levels and Watson could sit her GCSE exams. Live-action filming took place in England and Scotland for exterior locations and at Leavesden Film Studios for interior locations. Harry Potter and
13356-571: The seventeenth century traditions of fustian, bombastic and satirical writing. During the nineteenth-century category of grotesque body was increasingly displaced by the notion of congenital deformity or medical anomaly. Building on this context, the grotesque begins to be understood more as deformity and disability, especially after the First World War , 1914–18. In these terms, the art historian Leah Dickerman has argued that "The sight of horrendously shattered bodies of veterans returned to
13482-454: The term "grotesque" and in 1835 produced 7-line pica grotesque —the first sans-serif typeface containing actual lowercase letters. An alternate etymology is possibly based on the original reaction of other typographers to such a strikingly featureless typeface. Popular grotesque typefaces include Franklin Gothic , News Gothic , Haettenschweiler , and Lucida Sans (although the latter lacks
13608-419: The term became also used for the medieval originals, and in modern terminology medieval drolleries, half-human thumbnail vignettes drawn in the margins, and carved figures on buildings (that are not also waterspouts, and so gargoyles ) are also called "grotesques". A boom in the production of works of art in the grotesque genre characterized the 1920–1933 period of German art . In contemporary illustration art,
13734-650: The then-unknown Daniel Radcliffe and newcomers Rupert Grint and Emma Watson were selected to play Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively. Chris Columbus was hired to direct the film adaptation of Philosopher's Stone , with Steve Kloves selected to write the screenplay. Filming began on 29 September 2000 at Leavesden Film Studios and concluded on 23 March 2001, with final work being done in July. Principal photography took place on 2 October 2000 at North Yorkshire 's Goathland railway station . Warner Bros. had initially planned to release
13860-786: The title character, Erik in The Phantom of the Opera and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast . Other instances of the romantic grotesque are also to be found in Edgar Allan Poe , E. T. A. Hoffmann , in Sturm und Drang literature or in Sterne's Tristram Shandy . The romantic grotesque is far more terrible and sombre than the medieval grotesque, which celebrated laughter and fertility. It
13986-810: The truth. The less obvious grotesque is the polite, doting grandmother who is unaware of her own astonishing selfishness. Another oft-cited example of the grotesque from O'Connor's work is her short story entitled A Temple of the Holy Ghost . The American novelist Raymond Kennedy is another author associated with the literary tradition of the grotesque. Contemporary writers of literary grotesque fiction include Ian McEwan , Katherine Dunn , Alasdair Gray , Angela Carter , Jeanette Winterson , Umberto Eco , Patrick McGrath , Jessica Anthony , Natsuo Kirino , Paul Tremblay , Matt Bell , Chuck Palahniuk , Brian Evenson , Caleb J. Ross (who writes domestic grotesque fiction), Richard Thomas and many authors who write in
14112-445: The video game series Elder Scrolls , goblins are a hostile beast race said to originate from Summerset Isle, can range in size from being smaller than a Wood Elf to being larger than a Nord and love living in dank places such as caves and sewers. In early English translations, The Smurfs were called goblins. The McDonald's Fry Guys were called Gobblins in earlier McDonaldland advertisements. The Goosebumps franchise had
14238-423: The wizarding world, attempting to defeat the maniacal Gellert Grindelwald despite Albus Dumbledore unable to fight against him. Originally scheduled to begin filming in July 2019, and released in November 2020, production was pushed back to late 2019 to allow more time polishing the script and plan the future of the series. In 2018 on Twitter , J. K. Rowling promised that the third film would give answers to
14364-409: The wizarding world. On 12 April 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery announced a new live-action Harry Potter television series at a press event for their newly rebranded streaming service Max. It will be a reboot of the franchise, retelling the story of the novels with a season dedicated to each of the seven books , and will be produced over the course of ten years. J. K. Rowling will be joining
14490-400: The years of 1926 and 1945. In February 2022, producer David Heyman revealed that work on the script for Fantastic Beasts 4 had not begun yet. In April 2022, Variety reported that Warner Bros. greenlighting the final two installments would be dependent on the critical and commercial performance of The Secrets of Dumbledore . In November 2022, it was reported that Warner Bros. Discovery
14616-440: Was announced as director and an executive producer, and David Heyman , who produced the Harry Potter film series, was announced as an executive producer. TBS and Cartoon Network aired Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses on 28 November 2021 as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations. It was a bracket style quiz show where fans would compete for their Hogwarts house in teams of three. It featured four episodes and
14742-457: Was cast in her place. Ralph Fiennes reprises his role as Lord Voldemort. British television director David Yates was chosen to direct the film after Goblet of Fire director Newell, as well as Jean-Pierre Jeunet , Guillermo del Toro , Matthew Vaughn and Mira Nair , turned down offers. Kloves, the screenwriter of the first four Harry Potter films, had other commitments and Michael Goldenberg , who had been considered for screenwriter of
14868-427: Was confirmed as screenwriter. For the first time in the series, Rowling was credited as a producer alongside Heyman and Barron, however Yates noted that her participation in the filmmaking process did not change from the previous films. Pre-production began on 26 January 2009, while principal photography began on 19 February at Leavesden Studios, where the previous six instalments were filmed. Pinewood Studios became
14994-407: Was hosted by Helen Mirren and included Harry Potter cast members: Tom Felton , Simon Fisher-Becker , Shirley Henderson , Luke Youngblood , Matthew Lewis , along with other cameos like Pete Davidson and comedian Jay Leno . Many members of the original cast reunited for Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts , an HBO Max retrospective special to celebrate the 20th anniversary of
15120-466: Was not actively planning to continue the film series or to develop any films related to the Wizarding World franchise. In January 2021, it was reported that Warner Bros. were reviewing pitches for a television series, set in the wizarding world, to debut on HBO Max . In May 2022, the reports circulated about the announced meeting between Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and J. K. Rowling in their discussion for future HBO Max projects set within
15246-569: Was popularized in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, in which goblins and related creatures are a staple of random encounters . Goblinoids are typically barbaric foes of the various human and " demi-human " races . Even though goblinoids in modern fantasy fiction are derived from J. R. R. Tolkien 's orcs , the main types of goblinoids in Dungeons & Dragons are goblins , bugbears and hobgoblins ; these creatures are also figures of mythology, next to ordinary goblins. In
15372-410: Was released on 15 April 2022. The first Wizarding World-branded narrative video game, Hogwarts Legacy , was released in early 2023. Warner Bros. is also developing a television series for HBO , with a season adapting each of the seven Harry Potter books. Harry Potter , a seemingly ordinary eleven-year-old boy, is actually a wizard and survivor of Lord Voldemort 's attempted rise to power. Harry
15498-514: Was released on 15 July in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives in New York City with his magically expanded briefcase which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When some creatures escape from his briefcase, Newt must battle to correct the mistake, and the horrors of the resultant increase in violence, fear, and tension felt between magical and non-magical people ( No-Maj ). On 12 September 2013, Warner Bros. announced that J. K. Rowling
15624-647: Was released on 16 November 2018. Several years after the events of The Crimes of Grindelwald , the story begins in the UK, the US and China and proceeds to take place partly in Berlin , Germany and partly in Bhutan, Asia and leads up to the Wizarding World's involvement in World War II . The third instalment in the franchise shows protagonist Newt Scamander and company returning for another adventurous journey through
15750-410: Was the first film in the franchise to place outside the top ten grossing films of its release year. All of the films have been commercially successful, and the majority have been critically successful. The Harry Potter series is noted by audiences and critics for growing narratively complicated, visually darker and more mature as each film was released. Seven of the 11 films were nominated for
15876-435: Was writing a script based on her book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the adventures of its fictional author Newt Scamander, set seventy years before the adventures of Harry Potter. The film would mark her screenwriting debut and is planned as the first movie in a new series. According to Rowling, after Warner Bros. suggested an adaptation, she wrote a rough draft of the script in twelve days. She said, "It wasn't
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