The headquarters of MACUSA (Magical Congress of the United States of America) in New York may be a fictional institution, but its entrance certainly is not. It may be converted to a five-star hotel in the future, as per their website. The film location in question was actually the old and now disused Martins Bank on the corner of 4 Water Street in Liverpool. In the opening scene in the bank, we see Scamander in a giant bank as he bumps into character Jacob Kowalski for the first time. These adventures on the make-believe 5 th Avenue of New York actually take place inside The Cunard Building in Liverpool.īuilt in the style of an Italian palazzo (palace), the building now lends its ground floor to the British Music Experience. In the film, Newt Scamander tries to track down an escaped creature in the popular department store Macy’s. When it is not a filming set for blockbuster fantasy films, the grand hall is a venue for organ concerts, weddings and even homecoming of the city’s football team. In Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, New York senator (and spoiler alert: bad guy) Henry Shaw gives a campaign speech a political rally inside the real-life St George’s Hall on Liverpool’s Lime Street. The film, played by protagonist New Scamander (actor Eddie Redmayne) was set in New York in the 1920s, but the shooting actually took place in sets in the UK and in Liverpool. It’s best to begin our search where the action first began.

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them: Part 1

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