FantasticBeasts3 opens with the lowest box office any Wizarding World movie. The SecretsOfDumbledore earned just $43M at the domestic box office. That's well below the openings for Sonic 2 ($72M) and The Batman ($134M), but also Uncharted ($44M).
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore has had the worst box office opening weekend of any Harry Potter film in cinema history. The Secrets of Dumbledore is the third film in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, which follows the adventures of magizoologist Newt Scamander , and the eleventh film in the broader Wizarding World franchise, which includes the eight Harry Potter films starring Daniel Radcliffe as the titular boy wizard.
The film has gone into its opening weekend amid a swirl of controversy involving those in front of and behind the camera. Primarily, LGBTQ+ groups and allies have been boycotting the film after Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling made continuous transphobic posts on Twitter and her personal blog.
Every film in the Fantastic Beasts has opened lower than every film in the Harry Potter franchise, which peaked with the final entry Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II in 2011 and bottomed out with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix .
The future of the entire franchise depends on the performance of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. While its box office performance is reasonable for a mid-tier pandemic-era feature like The Lost City or Death on the Nile, the big budget franchise needs to provide studios with a compelling, risk-free reason to invest in continuing the series. At one time the franchise was envisioned as featuring at least six films, but if the analysts at Warner Bros.
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