What is the title of J.K. Rowling's 2016 screenplay based on a Hogwarts textbook by Newt Scamander?

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is J.K. Rowling's 2016 screenplay based on a Hogwarts textbook by Newt Scamander.

The film follows Newt Scamander, a magizoologist who arrives in New York in 1926 with a case containing magical creatures. Several of them escape, creating the central conflict. The story expands the Wizarding World beyond Harry Potter's school years and introduces the earlier history of figures such as Gellert Grindelwald.

Rowling wrote the screenplay for the film, which was directed by David Yates. The title comes from a fictional textbook listed among Harry's school materials. Rowling had previously published a short charity edition under the same title, presented as Harry's textbook and credited to Newt Scamander.

The film began a series of three released movies. Its subtitle is not The Crimes of Grindelwald, which is the name of the second film, released in 2018. The screenplay was also published in book form in 2016.