After delays in it’s release, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Warner Bros. is returning to the world of J.K. Rowling in 2022. The newly titled Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will open globally on April 15, 2022, moving up three months from its previous July 15, 2022 date.
It opens against Paramount’s The Lost City of D, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, which is also set for April 15, 2022.
The upcoming Fantastic Beasts film stars Jude Law as Dumbledore, Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander and Mads Mikkelsen as the central villain, Gellert Grindelwald, previously played by Johnny Depp. Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, William Nadylam and Katherine Waterston also star.