'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them': 8 magical first photos

In Entertainment Weekly's new issue, we go on the set and deep inside the chamber of secrets of J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Here's your first look at Katherine Waterston as Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein, Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander, Alison Sudol and Queenie Goldstein, and Dan Fogler as Jacob Kowalski.

Beasts stars Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as world-famous magizoologist Newt Scamander, who embarks on an adventure in 1926 New York. 

Katherine Waterston (as Porpentina "Tina" Goldstein) and Eddie Redmayne (as Newt Scamander)

A behind the scenes look at the filming of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

EW was on the set of Fantastic Beasts in Leavesden, U.K.

Alison Sudol (as Queenie Goldstein) on set with director David Yates.

So what’s this movie actually about? What are the characters? How will Fantastic Beasts differ from the Potter films? What creatures can we expect? And what are American wizards like, anyway? We’ll have all that on EW.com, plus interviews with the cast and producers, and more.

In our cover image, you get a first look at Scamander, his pivotal briefcase in hand, standing inside the entrance of the majestic art deco-influenced Magical Congress of the United States of America (or MACUSA), which is the American version of the Ministry of Magic that’s housed inside the Woolworth Building in the film. 

To continue reading more on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on newsstands Friday, or buy it here.