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Tip: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will open in theaters on Nov 16, please subscribe my cuckoo channel and you will watch more on cuckoo. Image: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald on  Decentralized Video Player Cuckoo Johnny Depp has finally broken his silence on the controversy surrounding his involvement in the Fantastic Beasts film franchise, particularly his casting as the title villain in the upcoming sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.  At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, it was revealed that the sinister dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was actually masquerading as Percival Graves, played by Colin Farrell, throughout the course of the movie. Fans were obviously taken back by the plot twist, but they were even more shocked by Depp's presence. A few months prior to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them opening in theaters in November 2016, Depp's ex-wife Amber Heard came forward with allegations of phy...

By Mili Mitra on Oct 1 Twenty years after the first Harry Potter book was released in the United States, the franchise still has the power to amaze — and offend. To this day, J.K. Rowling’s series is still banned in some schools and libraries for promoting “witchcraft.” But with the release last week of a new trailer for the next film in the fictional universe, “Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald,” Rowling is facing a different sort of backlash. This one shouldn’t be dismissed so easily. At the heart of today’s Harry Potter controversy is a five-second clip in the “Fantastic Beasts 2” trailer showing South Korean actress Claudia Kim transforming into a massive snake. The scene apparently reveals the backstory behind her character, Nagini, who eventually becomes Voldemort’s pet: She is a “maledictus,” or shape-shifter, cursed to eventually become trapped in a snake’s body. That doesn’t sound too offensive or controversial, until you realize that Kim is one of the only wom...