'Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them' Sequel in the Works, Gets 2018 Release Date!

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – the latest wizarding world movie from J.K. Rowling – is getting a sequel!

Warner Bros announced today that the second film will be released on November 16, 2018, Variety reports.

J.K. will pen the new film and David Yates will return to direct the second film.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be released in theaters on November 18, 2016. Eddie Redmayne stars as Newt Scamander. The film follows Newt in New York’s secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.