Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will open in theaters in the U.S. on November 18th, 2016.
Fantastic Beasts is one of two major post-Potter revivals of the franchise.
The script for the plays was written by Jack Thorne based on Rowling’s story and will be sold in book format starting July 31st, 2016.
Fantastic Beasts, which marks Rowling’s first turn as a screenwriter, is expected to be the first of three installments in the prequel/spinoff series, and Yates said that script number two has already been written by her.