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Dame Frances Rosemary Walsh DNZM (born 10 January 1959) is a New Zealand screenwriter and film producer. Partner of filmmaker Peter Jackson, Walsh has contributed to all of their films since 1989: as co-writer since Meet the Feebles and as producer since The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. She has won three Academy Awards for the final film of the trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fran Walsh, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Marauders Era is a 2024 American epic fantasy film written and directed by Guillermo Del Toro. It stars Aaron Taylor Johnson, Ben Barnes, Andrew Garfield, Dane Dehaan, Karen Gillan, Louis Garrel, Timothee Chalamet, Vanessa Kirby, Keira Knightley, Katie McGrath, Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett, Peter Dinkalage, Vera Farmiga, Gerard Butler, Tom Hardy, Tom Hiddleston and Ralph Fiennes. The film follows the story of a group of boys as creat mayhem in school, get girlfriends, bully a group of Snakes and create a map to start their legacy. The film premiered on May 15, 2024, at the Cannes Film Festival, then released worldwide on May 19, 2024. The film received positive reviews and has been deemed an improvement over the Fantastic Beasts films by many, with praise for its action sequences, mature themes, score, visual effects, darker tone, and the performances of Johnson, Barnes, Garfield, Hardy, Chalamet and Louis Garrel; criticism largely focused on the film's dialogue and aspects of Gillan, Dehaan and McGrath's performances. The film was also criticized for its 3 and a half hour runtime. It broke several box office records during its opening week and went on to earn over $868 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter franchise at the time. It was the highest-grossing film in the U.S. and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide in 2024. The film also holds the record for the highest opening-day gross on a Thursday, making $50 million.
