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WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for director Eli Roth’s  The House with a Clock in Its Walls , in theaters now. The  Harry Potter  franchise is among cinema’s most successful to date, producing not only eight hit films based on J.K. Rowling’s beloved boy wizard, but also spinning off a planned  five  Warner Bros. prequels, beginning with 2016’s  Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them . The series has had an undeniable influence on the modern Hollywood blockbuster, and led other studios to try, and fail, to replicate its magical formula, with the likes of  Percy Jackson ,  Eragon  and  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice . RELATED:  The House With a Clock in Its Walls Ending, Explained Although director Eli Roth’s  The House with a Clock in Its Walls  is in little danger of replacing  Harry Potter  in the hearts of fans, or in box-office record books, with this adaptation of John Bellairs’ 1973 magical mystery, Universal Pictures may have stumbled onto its own low-