What is the title of J.K. Rowling’s 2018 screenplay-based wizarding-world film?

J.K. Rowling’s 2018 screenplay-based wizarding-world film is Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

The film was released in 2018 as the second installment of the Fantastic Beasts series. Rowling wrote the screenplay, and David Yates directed it. Eddie Redmayne plays magizoologist Newt Scamander, while Johnny Depp portrays Gellert Grindelwald and Jude Law plays a younger Albus Dumbledore.

The story moves between New York, London, and Paris as Grindelwald escapes custody and seeks support for his vision of wizarding dominance. Newt becomes involved in efforts to stop him, while the film expands the history of Dumbledore and Grindelwald’s relationship.

The title is easy to confuse with the first film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, released in 2016, and the third film, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, released in 2022. The Crimes of Grindelwald is specifically the middle film of the released trilogy and is based on Rowling’s original screenplay rather than a novel adaptation.