Take a second and think about how wild it is that there is a movie in theaters right now with a basic premise that Jude Law and Mads Mikkelson are exes who are trying to work out the baggage of their relationship.
The latest Harry Potter movie, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore, is on track to post the lowest box office numbers of the entire series. The film is set to bring in roughly $40 million this weekend, which is $22 million less than The Crimes of Grindelwald.
Yes, and also acknowledged: Pandemic. It's not entirely clear why a film based on the most popular kids show of the last 20 years can't beat a movie about a serial killer. J.K. Rowling's transphobia, the franchise's weird will, and the internal factors are all going to bury this film. If you think we're harping on J.K. Rowling's views on trans people, you should get a load of his social media accounts.
All of this, despite the fact that Secrets has done a decent bit better than Crimes, and maybe because we're all just mad for Mads, or maybe because Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves returned to the franchise to add a little coher.
Where will Warner Bros. go from here with its very expensive, suddenly very dry cash cow? The studio has not yet greenlit a fourth or fifth Beasts film, despite the fact that the story about a man who has a lot of fancy magical dogs could only be described as a pentalogy, according to Variety. There are rumors that the series is in a mode called wait and see. It doesn't make sense, since these movies have normally been pretty hot, but which now has its own box-office-affecting problems, such as institutional homophobia in China and the war in Ukraine.
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