'Fantastic Beasts 3' The New Untitled Movie

The Secrets Of Dumbledore

The third installment in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic Beastd and where to find them has set a release date of April 15, the studio said it Wednesday. That’s Easter weekend next year for the pic, which now has a title: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.

Warners is moving up the movie from its previous July 15 slot. Remember, all event titles on the Warner Bros slate are purely theatrical next year, not day-and-date on HBO Max. Warner Bros already had Easter weekend on hold on the schedule for an untitled event movie.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore will go up against DreamWorks Animation’s The Bad Guys via Universal, and Paramount’s Sandra Bullock-Channing Tatum adventure movie The Lost City of D. No word yet if those two studios will do something brazen and put both titles on streaming and in theaters day-and-date.

David Yates returns to direct The Secrets of Dumbledore.