Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Fantasy, Adventure • 2h 14m
Director: David Yates
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, Carmen Ejogo, Jessica Williams, William Nadylam, Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Kevin Guthrie, Brontis Jodorowsky, Derek Riddell, David Sakurai, Fiona Glascott, Wolf Roth, Victoria Yeates, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Cornell John, Claudius Peters, Bart Soroczynski, Danielle Hugues, Alfie Simmons, Isaac Cortinovis Johnson, Olivia Popica, Alfie Mailley, Simon Wan, Andrew Turner, Linda Santiago, Alfrun Rose, Maja Bloom, Olwen Fouéré, Simon Meacock, David Wilmot, Ed Gaughan, Jamie Campbell Bower, Toby Regbo, Hugh Quarshie, Isaura Barbé-Brown, Keith Chanter, Jemima Woolnough, Hollie Burgess, Thea Lamb, Joshua Shea, Isaac Domingos, Ruby Woolfenden, Christopher Birks, Sabine Crossen, Morrison Thomas, Johanna Thea, Liv Hansen, Israel Ruiz, Jag Patel, Deepak Anand, Andrew Blackall, Phil Hodges, Michael Haydon, Tim Ingall, Stephen McDade, Jeremy Oliver, Dave Simon, Jason Redshaw, Callum Forman, Ryan Hannaford, Donna Preston, Nasir Jama, Aykut Hilmi, Natalie Lauren, Deano Bugatti, Adrian Wheeler, Annarie Boor, Sean Coleman, Ana Cilas, Grant Crookes, Sarah-Jane De Crespigny, Mike Wood, Maddie Evans
About the film
Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
- Alternative Titles
- Fantastic Beasts 2, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald 3D, Fantastic Beasts։ The Crimes of Grindelwald 3D, Fantastic Beasts II: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald
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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