Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Fantasy, Adventure • 2h 13m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight, Ron Perlman, Johnny Depp, Zoë Kravitz, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Carmen Ejogo, Josh Cowdery, Ronan Raftery, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Jenn Murray, Gemma Chan, Peter Breitmayer, Kevin Guthrie, Sean Cronin, Sam Redford, Akin Gazi, Todd Boyce, Anne Wittman, Andreea Păduraru, Matthew Sim, Elizabeth Moynihan, Adam Lazarus, Lucie Pohl, Tim Bentinck, Bart Edwards, Brian F. Mulvey, Tristan Tait, Tom Clarke Hill, Cory Peterson, Jake Samuels, Max Cazier, Dan Hedaya, Christy Meyer, Guy Paul, Walles Hamonde, Dominique Tipper, Leo Heller, Miles Roughley, Erick Hayden, Paul Birchard, Tom Hodgkins, Ellie Haddington, Joseph Macnab, Martin Oelbermann, Richard Clothier, Christian Dixon, Richard Hardisty, Miquel Brown, Wunmi Mosaku, Cristian Solimeno, Matthew Wilson, Aretha Ayeh, Emmi, Nicholas McGaughey, Arinzé Kene, Jane Perry, Abi Adeyemi, Alphonso Austin, David J Biscoe, Lee Bolton, Neil Broome, Fanny Carbonnel, David Charles-Cully, Craig Davies, Chloe de Burgh, Paul Dewdney, Rudi Dharmalingam, Joshua Diffley, Richard Douglas, Henry Douthwaite, Dino Fazzani, Abigayle Honeywill, Attila G. Kerekes, Simon Kerrison, Dennis Good, Alan Mandel, Jorge Leon, Christine Marzano, Pete Meads, Dennis O'Donnell, Gino Picciano, Jason Redshaw, Dave Simon, Connor Sullivan, Dan Trotter, Morgan Walters, Anick Wiget, Reid Anderson, Tineke Ann Robson, Cinta Laura Kiehl, Annarie Boor, Finley Howard, Karl Farrer, Rich Hardisty, Nathan Benham
About the film
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
- Alternative Titles
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3D
Original 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 mix: Warner Bros Blu-ray
DTS X remix: Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray
Director: Ridley Scott
Final Cut: WB 4K Blu-ray (Caveat: No Dolby Vision from Streaming)
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set for a better AVC encode
1982 Theatrical Mix: Embassy Video releases, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
International Cut Dolby Stereo: Criterion Collection LaserDisc, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
1992 Director's Cut Dolby Stereo: WB CAV LaserDisc 2.0 PCM-best fidelity of any mix, HD-DVD for the 70mm 6-track mix
Workprint: WB 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Set DTS-HD MA 5.1
2007 Final Cut remix: Blu-ray Dolby TrueHD 5.1
WB 4K Blu-ray only has Final Cut and contains a bad Atmos remix with new sound effects. Original Final Cut mix was removed.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
2025 Taiwan Deltamac 4K Blu-ray > US Paramount 4K Blu-ray (Taiwan 4K Blu-ray is not low passed as the US 4K Blu-ray and has better grain and fine detail retention)
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: Orson Welles
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · blah-ray.blogspot.com (opens in a new tab)
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray
WB Europe 4K Blu-ray slightly better encoding than Criterion (caveat: missing Criterion extras)
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Warner Bros 2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray/ Warner Bros 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray (replacement disc)
All foreign language tracks were pitched too low, replacement disc and Ultimate Knockout Collection disc fixed the error.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition are the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
Director: Sylvester Stallone
2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray Box Set
2024 Ultimate Knockout Collection Warner Bros 4K Blu-ray Box Set > 2023 Knockout Collection 4K Blu-ray
2023 disc has a brief moment where the aspect ratio changes from 1.85:1 to 1.78:1, 2024 release fixed the error
Both cuts of the movie are on the same disc and don’t appear to be seamlessly branched.
The Steelbook and UK standard edition are the same disc as the 2023 knockout collection.
More Fantasy on Blu-ray
Director: Govindan Aravindan
Directors: David Hand & Ben Sharpsteen & William Cottrell & Larry Morey & Perce Pearce & Wilfred Jackson
Mono track is on the included Blu-ray; 4K Blu-ray missing original mono. LaserDisc probably better
Director: Gary Ross
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray, but a shot was cut from the film
Warner Bros Blu-ray for the uncut version, but it's an older master.
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · YouTube (opens in a new tab)
Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray, but a shot was cut from the film. See comparison
Warner Bros Blu-ray for the uncut version, but it's an older master.
Directors: Chris Appelhans & Maggie Kang
"Sing-Along Edition" not included on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray, only available on Netflix Streaming
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Criterion 4K Blu-ray also includes exclusive "Reborn Cut"
Director: Lam Nai-choi
88 Films UK or Vinegar Syndrome US Blu-ray (preference)
Different color gradings, 88 Films disc is encoded by FiM but Vinegar Syndrome encode (by Marcus Johnson) is more than robust
Vinegar Syndrome potentially has better audio than 88 Films, due to VinSyn possibly having EQ'd the audio mix after Fortune Star scanned the track in a way that makes it sound too hot, whereas 88 left it alone without addressing that issue. However, no direct comparisons exist
Director: Masaaki Yuasa
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