Add to that the fact that they recast Johnny Deep for Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore and that the same film starred Ezra Miller who has been in trouble with the law for the past few months, and you will find the Fantastic Beasts franchise barely managing to stay afloat. For those out of the loop, Rowling often tweets transphobic comments, leading many Harry Potter fans to abandon the franchise if not the creator. However, as the last film was released this year, there will not be a new Harry Potter movie arriving in 2022. It’s also worth noting that with the backlash stemming from the controversy surrounding J.K. With Harry Potter having a history of performing well (although maybe not lately) it is not beyond the realm of possibility that a new film in the franchise is currently being worked on in some stage of pre-production. The last movie set in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter was released earlier in 2022. There have been eight mainline Harry Potter films and three movies in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, a prequel focused on the adventures of Newt Scamander and Albus Dumbledore to a lesser extent. For now, see our guide below on how to watch all Harry Potter movies in order.As a franchise, Harry Potter has been extremely popular and profitable, grossing almost $10 billion at the box office across the 11 movies released so far. There’s also a Harry Potter series early in development for HBO Max. Then the story of Harry himself begins, starting with Sorcerer’s Stone and concluding in the second-part of The Deathly Hallows, for eight Certified Fresh movies in a row. The third Fantastic Beasts intends to release July 2022, with two more movies to close out the Scarmander and Grindelwald saga.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is set in 1927. So to watch the Harry Potter movies in order, your journey now begins with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, set in 1926 and starring Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scarmander. Watching the Harry Potter movies in order, seeing the story unfold chronologically in-universe, used to be as easy as finding the one where Daniel Radcliffe looks youngest and starting from there.īut the series has expanded now with the Fantastic Beasts movies, set some 70 years before The Sorcerer’s Stone. (Photo by WB/ courtesy Everett Collection) How to Watch Harry Potter Movies In Order: See All 11 Movies ChronologicallyĮveryone came into the Wizarding World through the Harry Potter books and movies, which introduced us to a gifted 11-year-old, his friends Ron and Hermione, and their hallowed school of magic, Hogwarts.

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