First Look! "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" Full Trailer
The Harry Potter universe expanded when J.K. Rowling released the 2001 book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, under the pseudonym Newt Scamander, which is now an upcoming film. On Monday, June 20, Warner Bros. Pictures released a new Fantastic Beasts movie poster that features The Danish Girls Eddie Redmayne dressed as Newt Scamander.
The new movie poster has Redmayne standing atop of a section of a destructed building, holding a briefcase and a glowing wand, while standing across from the train tracks in New York City. The yellow and black striped scarf that Redmayne wears in the Fantastic Beasts poster are the house colors of Hufflepuff, which is part of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where Scamander was a student.
[Image via Warner Bros.]The top of the poster features the words, J.K. Rowling invites you to a new era of the wizarding world. The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them movie title uses the same typography that the Harry Potter movie posters used.
The story takes place 54 years before Harry Potter is even born, and 30 years before Albus Dumbledore becomes headmaster of Hogwarts. In a brief voice-over in the Fantastic Beasts trailer, Colin Farrells character wonders why Dumbledore thinks highly of Scamander, who was apparently kicked out of Hogwarts.
Rowling, who also wrote the screenplay for the movie, created the book that talks about Scamanders life and adventures in 1920s New York City. Scamander carries an expanded briefcase that holds dangerous, magical creatures; the briefcase has a muggle worthy option that hides the fantastic beasts from non-magical people.
Scamander is in New York to attend a meeting with an important official at the Magical Congress of the United States. Unfortunately, the magical creatures in the briefcase end up escaping at one point, which causes tension between the magical community and the No-Maj, the American version of non-magical people.
Its up to Newt Scamander to retrieve the magical creatures, all the while being chased by Percival Graves, played by Farrell. Graves is a high-ranking Auror, whom are elite wizards that hunt down magical people that use spells from the Dark Arts.
Tony award-winning actor Dan Fogler plays Jacob Kowalski, a No-Maj factory worker who becomes friends with Scamander. After meeting Scamander, Kowalski is exposed to the NYC magical community.
Dan Fogler, Colin Farrell, and Eddie Redmayne star in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. [Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images]The real antagonists are the New Salem Philanthropic Society, a fanatical group that wants to get rid of all wizards and magic at any means necessary. John Carter actress Samantha Morton plays the societys sinister leader, Mary Lou.
The fantastic beasts featured in the story do not make a full appearance in the teaser trailer that was released back in April, but viewers do get a glimpse of a couple of the creatures.
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The new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them poster has been released before the Warner Bros. Fantastic Beasts special event at VidCon 2016 in Anaheim, California. The details of the sold-out event is being kept under wraps, but the event holders are left with a teasing message on the films official Facebook page promising that something fantastic at #vidcon2016 is being announced soon.
VidCon 2016 begins on June 23 and continues through June 25, with the Fantastic Beasts special event taking place on June 22. Seventeen popular vloggers will be hosting the event, and a live stream will take place on the Warner Bros. YouTube channel, according to the Fantastic Beasts official movie site.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be released worldwide on November 18, and will be available in IMAX 4K laser format and 3D theaters.
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Photos surfaced that are said to be of a pregnant Jackson
She"s been off the scene since April
On Wednesday Entertainment Tonight shared pictures it said were of Jackson and her baby bump.
The images appear to show a very pregnant Jackson leaving a baby furniture store in London. According to ET, Jackson visited the store with members of her staff and left with a bag of merchandise after 45 minutes.
The 50-year-old singer has been out of the spotlight since April when she announced she was halting her concert tour for personal reasons.
"I thought it was important that you be the first to know," she said in a video she released via Twitter. "My husband and I are planning our family, so I"m going to have to delay the tour."
Jackson is married to Qatari billionaire Wissam Al Mana.
CNN has reached out to reps for Jackson for comment.
It did not end until Arafat died in 2004, bringing new leadership to the Palestinians and a new effort at coexistence led by Mr. Sharon, a former hawk who had been elected prime minister. He withdrew Israeli settlers and soldiers from Gaza and small parts of the West Bank.
Mr. Peres had tried before to get a peace settlement, in 1987, between Israel and Jordan. He was foreign minister in a coalition government with Yitzhak Shamir when he proposed an international peace conference on the Middle East. But Mr. Shamir and his Likud faction scuttled the plan.
Mr. Peres had sought to settle the future of the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel had occupied since the Arab-Israeli War in 1967. As a first step, he proposed that Jordan and Israel could either divide the land or share the government but that Israel should not control the area forever.
Photo Mr. Peres, left, with Yitzhak Shamir in 1988 in Jerusalem. Credit Anat Givon/Associated Press A Coalition, and Calm
Mr. Peres became prime minister at the head of an unusual coalition of Israels two major political parties, his own Labor Party, and the Likud, the party led by Yitzhak Shamir, who served as deputy prime minister and foreign minister. In accordance with the coalition agreement, the two men exchanged posts after 25 months.
Mr. Peres brought a period of tranquillity to the social environment, which had been frayed by animosities between European and Middle Eastern Jews and between religious Jews and secular Jews.
He presided over the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon after an invasion that had generated unprecedented controversy, and he became the first Israeli prime minister to take the difficult steps required to deal with the nations fundamental economic problems and ruinous inflation.
During his time in office, Israel airlifted some 7,000 Ethiopian Jews who had trekked to refugee camps in Sudan to escape famine, anti-Semitism, forced conscription of boys and other threats that had made their lives in Ethiopia precarious. Mr. Peres called the clandestine rescue operation a daring and wonderful act of self-redemption.
Photo During Mr. Peress time in office, Israel airlifted some 7,000 Jews from Ethiopia in what he called a daring and wonderful act of self-redemption. Credit Sven Nackstrand/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Taking over what was expected to be a government of national impasse, Mr. Peres left office with an image as a dignified, self-confident statesman.
But while he was prime minister, severe strains developed in relations between the United States and Israel growing out of a major spy scandal involving an American, Jonathan Jay Pollard, and the disclosure in 1986 of Iranian arms deals.
A man of medium height and slender, athletic build his dark hair turned gray and then white in his later years Mr. Peres always exuded vitality, despite a schedule that kept him going 18 hours a day. When, on his 88th birthday, he was offered a traditional Jewish greeting, May you live till 120, he retorted without missing a beat, Dont be stingy.
Mr. Peres was married to the former Sonya Gelman, who shunned the spotlight to the point of refusing to move into the presidents house when he took his last public post. She died in January 2011. They had three children: a daughter, Zvia, and two sons, Jonathan and Nehemya. They and Mr. Peress eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren survive him.
Mr. Peres was an effective speaker, comfortable in front of large audiences as well as the television camera. He cultivated party members remembering their names and attending their weddings and bar mitzvahs and nurtured his relationship with the intelligentsia.
He also wrote poetry and was given to quoting the ancient Greeks and Flaubert and Churchill. He published a dozen books, including The New Middle East, in 1993, and Battling for Peace, a memoir, in 1995. His last book was an affectionate political biography of his mentor, the countrys founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion.
Photo A picture of David Ben-Gurion was on the wall of Mr. Peress office in Tel Aviv. He became known as one of Ben-Gurions boys. Credit Associated Press A Journey From Poland
He was born Shimon Persky on Aug. 16, 1923, to a merchant family in the small village of Vishniewa, Poland. His parents, Yitzhak and Sara Persky, took him to Palestine when he was 11, where he studied in Tel Aviv and then entered an agricultural school.
In 1941, he helped found Kibbutz Alumot in the eastern Lower Galilee, where he worked as a herdsman and was elected kibbutz secretary. He soon became active in the Mapai, which was to become Israels Labor Party, and at 18 was appointed the coordinator of the youth movement of the Histadrut, the General Labor Federation.
He rose rapidly, getting experience in the intricacies of Israeli political life. In 1944, Ben-Gurion, then the head of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, sent Mr. Peres with a small reconnaissance group to Eilat on the Red Sea to survey the Sinai Desert and make maps, which became important strategic assets during the 1948 war of independence.
It was on that mission that a friend sighted a nest of eagles, peres in Hebrew. Persky, he said, why dont you change your family name to Peres? He accepted the suggestion, though the bird they saw was in fact more a vulture than an eagle.
When Israel became independent in 1948, Mr. Peres was named head of the naval service. Within two years, he was sent to the United States to lead a defense supply mission in New York. He was 27 and spoke no English, but within three months, after rounds of intensive private lessons, he was fluent. He took courses at the New School for Social Research and New York University, and later at the Harvard School of Public Administration.
In 1951, Ben-Gurion, then prime minister and minister of defense, appointed Mr. Peres director general of the Defense Ministry, where he used his Harvard training to reorganize the department. Mr. Peres became known as one of Ben-Gurions boys protgs of the Old Man a group that included Teddy Kollek and Moshe Dayan.
Those years may have been the genesis of a lifelong rivalry with Mr. Rabin, who at the time was chief of the operations branch, the second-highest position in the Israeli Army. He complained of what he called Mr. Peress excessive authority.
At the Defense Ministry, Mr. Peres was in charge of a substantial portion of the nations total budget, and he played a central role in developing the young nations industry, particularly in aeronautics and electronics.
He stressed domestic weapons production, but when Egypt received advanced military equipment from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, Mr. Peres began to cast about for new sources of supply. He finally turned to France.
His timing was excellent. The French believed the Algerian revolutionaries fighting for independence were fueled by President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt and saw Israel as a source of intelligence about Egypt. Mr. Peres negotiated a $1 billion arms deal and acquired a reputation as a canny bargainer.
The arms negotiations formed a basis for the Franco-Israeli alliance that led to Israels lightning capture of Sinai in 1956. Zeev Schiff, for many years the military editor of the newspaper Haaretz, said, There is no doubt that Peres was one of the brains behind Suez.
Ben-Gurion felt that a pre-emptive war was bad for Israel in terms of public opinion and was reluctant until the last. Mr. Peres saw it as an opportunity to get a better position among the superpowers, a special relationship through a joint venture of going to war together.
Out of that joint venture came French help in building a nuclear reactor in Dimona, which provided Israel with the ability to build nuclear weapons.
I reached the stage in France where I was trusted by everybody, and really the sky was the limit, Mr. Peres said many years later.
Photo In 2012, President Obama presented Mr. Peres with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, one of many international distinctions that Mr. Peres received. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Power Struggles
In 1957, Mr. Peres was awarded the French Legion of Honor, one of many international distinctions. In 2012, President Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The American honor partly reflected Israels shift in alliance to the United States from Europe in previous decades. While under Ben-Gurion, and his successor, Levi Eshkol, Mr. Peres had negotiated with the West German defense minister, Franz Josef Strauss, to get arms and continued to get weapons from France as well. But he came to rely increasingly on the United States. He visited Washington frequently and met with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Mr. Peres ran for the countrys Parliament, the Knesset, in 1959, in his first bid for national elective office. With the support of Ben-Gurion, he was given a position high enough on his partys electoral list to be assured of victory.
In the political turmoil that preceded the 1967 Middle East War, Mr. Peres tried to negotiate a return to power for Ben-Gurion, who had retired. In the course of his negotiations, he proposed a coalition to Menachem Begin, the head of the right-wing Herut Party, despite Ben-Gurions belief that if Mr. Begin ever came to power, he would bring Israel to the precipice of destruction.
Shabtai Teveth, a professor of history at Tel Aviv University and the biographer of Ben-Gurion, said in an interview, I believe Peres will go down in Zionist and Israeli history as the man who legitimized Begin and the Herut.
Ten years later, in 1977, when Mr. Peres challenged Mr. Rabin, the split in the Labor Party opened the way for the election of Mr. Begin as prime minister.
When Israels top leaders were discredited because of the countrys lack of preparedness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Mr. Peres made a bid for power. To block him, Finance Minister Pinchas Sapir recruited Mr. Rabin, who had been ambassador to the United States and bore no responsibility for the wartime failures. Mr. Rabin named Mr. Peres defense minister, a decision he later came to regret. In his memoirs, Mr. Rabin called him unscrupulous and untrustworthy. He wrote that he could not believe a word Mr. Peres said.
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The Houston Texans have placed J.J. Watt on injured reserve after the star defensive lineman re-injured his back. According to the Associated Press, the Texans expect Watt to be on the sideline at least until December -- and possibly the rest of the season.
Watt took to Twitter after the news was announced to say he"s looking forward to the "fight back to the top."
Watt, who has won each of the last two Defensive Player of the Year awards and three during his NFL career, underwent two different surgeries after the Texans" 2015 season ended. In January he had surgery on a sports hernia and in July he had surgery on a herniated disc in his back. He subsequently started training camp on the Physically Unable to Perform list. However, he was able to return by Week 1.
Watt had struggled to resemble his usual dominant self through the first three weeks of the 2016 season, even as he collected 1.5 sacks during a Week 2 win over the Chiefs. He was practically invisible during an embarrassing Week 3 drubbing at the hands of the Patriots, where it was obvious he was struggling.
The Texans signed defensive end Antonio Smith to take Watt"s spot on the roster and presumably in the lineup, but it should be fairly obvious that they do not have anyone that can replace his production or impact. He has been far and away the best defensive player in football since entering the league in 2011, and while the Texans have supplementary pass-rushers that have been productive while playing alongside Watt (Whitney Mercilus and this year, Jadeveon Clowney), it seems safe to say they will not be quite as free to get after the quarterback without Watt on the field.
That should have a huge effect on the Houston defense, which is still the team"s stronger unit even after an offseason spree that saw the team sign Brock Osweiler and Lamar Miller and draft Will Fuller and Braxton Miller. The Texans rank 24th in total yards and tied for 31st in points so far this season, as well as last in Football Outsiders" offensive DVOA (which adjusts performance for down, distance, and opponent). They will obviously need the offense to step up in a big way without Watt leading the way for the defense.
It"s hard to say what the injury might mean for Watt"s career. Players have returned from serious back injuries and even back surgeries to be incredibly productive. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had the best season of his career after herniated disc surgery and a subsequent fracture of two transverse processes in his back. But some have also seen their careers derailed by injuries to the same area (we can look at Romo again here, as he just suffered another back break and it"s unknown when he"ll be able to return to the lineup). Back injuries generally are not the type that can be cured -- symptoms can be managed but doctors have noted that removing the troubled disc represents the only long-term solution.
A league without Watt -- or with a severely diminished Watt -- would be a worse place for all NFL fans, not just those that support the Texans. But at this point, with two serious back injuries in two seasons, it"s unfortunately something we might have to start contemplating.
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The missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was fired from a Russian launcher in an area of Ukraine controlled by pro-Moscow rebels, a Dutch-led team of investigators and prosecutors concluded Wednesday.
The surface-to-air missile hit the Boeing 777 en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur killing 298 people in July 2014, breaking it apart in midair and scattering wreckage over several miles of fields.
An armed pro-Russian separatist stands on part of the wreckage of MH17 three days after it was brought down in July 2014. MAXIM ZMEYEV / Reuters
At the time of the disaster, pro-Russian separatists were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the area.
Witness and social media evidence, along with intercepted communications, allowed investigators to track the Cold War-era Buk launcher being moved from Russia to rebel-held territory in Ukraine then back across the border after the disaster, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said.
Wilbert Paulissen, head of the Central Crime Investigation department of the Dutch National Police, said: "It may be concluded MH17 was shot down by a 9M38 missile launched by a Buk, brought in from the territory of the Russian Federation, and that after launch was subsequently returned to the Russian Federation."
The findings refute Moscow"s suggestion that the plane was brought down by the Ukrainian military. On Monday, Russia said it had new data showing the missile did not originate from rebel-controlled territory and said it would turn the data over to investigators.
Russia"s foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman dismissed the entire investigation as "biased and politically motivated."
Gallery: Malaysia Airlines Wreckage Litters Ukrainian Landscape
Maria Zakharova said in a statement that investigators had "prevented Moscow from fully taking part in the process."
"It sounds like an evil joke, but they"ve also made Ukraine a full member of the JIT, giving it the opportunity to fake evidence and twist the situation to its benefit," she said. "To this day, the investigation continues to ignore irrefutable proof presented by the Russian side, even though Russia is in fact the only country to send reliable information and reveal more and more new data."
Eduard Basurin, a defense spokesman for the separatist self-declared Donetsk People"s Republic, told Interfax: "We did not have these air defense systems at our disposal neither the systems, not the specialists [to operate it]. So we couldn"t have shot down the Boeing."
Investigators also ruled out the possibility that MH17 was downed by another aircraft or by some kind of accident, but were unable to conclude whether the missile was fired at the passenger jet accidentally or deliberately.
Wednesday"s report marks "an important milestone" in bringing to justice all those responsible for downing the aircraft, Ukraine"s foreign ministry said.
Thomas Schansman, father of the only U.S. citizen killed in the July 2014 disaster, told The Associated Press he expected investigators to identify the weapon involved and where it was fired from, but not to name the people they believe were responsible.
Barry Sweeney, whose son Liam was among the dead, told the BBC: "It shouldn"t have happened. To find out why it happened would be a bonus."
The inquiry concluded that the deadly surface-to-air missile was fired from farmland in the rebel-held area of Pervomaiskiy, 3 miles from the eastern Ukrainian town of Snizhne. Wednesday"s news conference was shown pictures of scorched grass where the launch took place.
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The downing played a significant part in a decision by the European Union and United States to impose sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, and East-West tensions escalated to levels not seen since the Cold War ended in 1990.
Russia-made Buk warheads, first built in the 1970s, are capable of shooting down aircraft up to 18 miles away. But the radar system that guides the missiles is designed for war zones, and is not capable of distinguishing between military and civilian planes.
Last year, a civil air accident investigation into the cause of the July 17, 2014 disaster by the Dutch Safety Board concluded that MH17 was downed by a Buk missile that exploded less than one yard from the aircraft"s cockpit.
Hundreds of "high-energy" fragments pierced the fuselage, and the shrapnel instantly killed the two pilots and one crew member inside, it concluded. There was no time to make a mayday call or attempt to maneuver, the report noted.
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"It was not possible to ascertain at which moment the occupants died," it added. "The impact on the ground was not survivable."
Pollster and political analyst Pat Caddell spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday, discussing the state of the presidential race, as well as the looming United Nations Internet takeover being discussed in Congress, as Breitbart News reported.
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Caddell said, We polled on this weeks ago, and it is overwhelming. The people who knew about it were against it because they mean it is another sign of America selling out. I just do not understand the stupidity of Republicans, frankly.
They do not understand the issues that they have that we are showing in our polling, like on Iran that theyre cheating, or already cheating. Why this is not like the Internet a giveaway, going at Obama on those things, he pondered, before adding:
These are major questions. Voters should be animated, and it is just frustrating beyond belief to me that it has not come up yet, and they, apparently, the leadership of the Republican Party, caved in on that, again. But the Democrats want to do that. Why arent the Republicans making that an issue?
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DETROIT -- As the story goes, Albert Belle didn"t like the first version of Mike Hargrove"s lineup.
It was Sept. 9, 1995, the day after the Indians clinched the American League Central and their first trip to the postseason in 41 years. Hargrove planned to rest several regulars, but Belle had other ideas.
The surly slugger, perhaps with his sights set on gaudier numbers, demanded that Hargrove insert him into the batting order. Hargrove relented, and Belle went 0-for-3 in a 2-1 victory against Baltimore. He would, however, club 17 home runs in September to finish with 50 for the season, to go along with 52 doubles.
Typically, the lineup the day after a clinching game includes plenty of youngsters and backups. Ruben Amaro and Herbert Perry both started that day in September 1995. The Indians" day-after-clinching lineup in 1996 included Casey Candaele, Geronimo Pena, Nigel Wilson and Ryan Thompson.
Terry Francona"s Tuesday lineup is one for the ages. Jason Kipnis, Francisco Lindor, Mike Napoli, Jose Ramirez, Lonnie Chisenhall, Roberto Perez and Coco Crisp all received the evening off.
"It"s much deserved," said Chris Gimenez. "A lot of the guys who have carried us to this point, they deserve to have a day off."
Francona penciled in Chris Gimenez at third base, Adam Moore at catcher, Erik Gonzalez at shortstop and Jesus Aguilar at first base.
Gimenez has logged five innings at the hot corner during his career.
"Not thrilled about that," Francona said. "We were running out of players. This is one of those nights where it might not be as pretty as we"d like it to be, but I think the guys like Kipnis and Lindor and, especially, Ramirez, they need to have a day to gather themselves. It"ll be good for them."
During the Indians" clubhouse celebration after Monday"s division-clinching victory, bench coach Brad Mills informed Gimenez he would be starting at third base. Gimenez responded by spraying Mills with champagne.
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Let"s take a look at the "hangover lineups" of the past 25 years.
