Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Continuity mistake: After eating their meal they're sitting at the table talking with empty plates in front of them. As they continue to talk all the plates and flatware disappear.

Continuity mistake: During dinner at the Goldsteins', the dishes are empty from one shot to another.

Factual error: A theater marquee is visible promoting the showing of a film called Tribeca Follies. The acronym "Tribeca" - an amalgamation of "Triangle Below Canal [Street]" - didn't come into usage until the 1970s.

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Trivia: The banker who turns down Jacob's first request for a loan is named Mr. Bingley, an obvious homage to one of the main characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. J. K. Rowling has stated numerous times in interviews that Austen is her favorite author, and this is not the first time she has alluded to her works with a character name; Argus Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris, from the Harry Potter books and movies shares her name with the busybody character from Mansfield Park.

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Question: Newt manged to capture all of the escaped beasts except the billwig. Why did he give up on it? Because it's just a little insect? or he had already many of the species in the case?

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Chosen answer: It's not known why he gave up. Newt did have to leave New York and there was no point in continuing the search at that time.

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