VIDEO: Alumni Attend A CELEBRATION OF HARRY POTTER 2016; Clips from 'FANTASTIC BEASTS'

Watch highlights from A Celebration of Harry Potter 2016, featuring Rupert Grint and other stars from the HARRY POTTER film series, as well as the upcoming spinoff FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM, starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Colin Farrell, and Alison Sudol. Check out the behind-the-scenes video!

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling. Tony and Olivier Award-winner Eddie Redmayne (RED) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who helmed the last four "Harry Potter" blockbusters.

For his Broadway debut starring opposite Alfred Molina in John Logan's Red, directed by Michael Grandage, Redmayne won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play; the production won six Tonys overall, including Best Play. Mr. Redmayne also received a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination, and he won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for the production's previous staging in London, at the Donmar Warehouse.

Redmayne received an Academy Award for his role in THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING and currently stars in Tom Hooper's THE DANISH GIRL, for which he is nominated in this year's Oscars. The actor was nominated for BAFTA's Rising Star Award in 2012 for his continuing body of work. Subsequently, he shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination with his fellow actors from Tom Hooper's LES MISERABLES for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, and the film itself won a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical. His other film credits include Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn, opposite Michelle Williams; Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, as the son of the characters portrayed byMatt Damon and Angelina Jolie; and Andy and Lana Wachowski's sci-fi epic Jupiter Ascending.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" opens in 1926 as Newt Scamander has just completed a global excursion to find and document an extraordinary array of magical creatures. Arriving in New York for a brief stopover, he might have come and gone without incident...were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt's fantastic beasts, which could spell trouble for both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" also stars Katherine Waterston ("Steve Jobs," "Inherent Vice") as Tina; Tony Award winner Dan Fogler ("The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee") as Jacob; Alison Sudol ("Dig," "Transparent") as Tina's sister, Queenie; Ezra Miller ("Trainwreck") as Credence; two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton ("In America," "Sweet and Lowdown") as Mary Lou; Oscar winner Jon Voight ("Coming Home," TV's "Ray Donovan") as Henry Shaw, Sr.; Ron Perlman (the "Hellboy" films) as Gnarlack; Carmen Ejogo ("Selma") as Seraphina; Jenn Murray ("Brooklyn") as Chastity; young newcomer Faith Wood-Blagrove as Modesty; and Colin Farrell ("True Detective") as Percival Graves.

The film marks the screenwriting debut of J.K. Rowling, whose beloved Harry Potter books were adapted into the top-grossing film franchise of all time. Her script was inspired by the Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, written by her character Newt Scamander.

The film reunites a number of people from the "Harry Potter" features, including producers David Heyman, J.K. Rowling, Steve Kloves and Lionel Wigram.

Collaborating with Yates behind the scenes are: Oscar-winning director of photography Philippe Rousselot ("A River Runs Through It," the "Sherlock Holmes" movies), three-time Oscar-winning production designer Stuart Craig ("The English Patient," "Dangerous Liaisons," "Gandhi," the "Harry Potter" films), three-time Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood ("Chicago," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "Alice in Wonderland"), Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor Tim Burke ("Gladiator," the "Harry Potter" films), Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Christian Manz ("Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1"), and Yates' longtime editor Mark Day (the last four "Harry Potter" films).

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is being filmed at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, which was home to the "Harry Potter" films for a decade. Some scenes were also shot on location in Liverpool, England.

Warner Bros. Pictures has slated "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" for worldwide release in 2D and 3D in select theaters and IMAX on November 18, 2016.

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