A screenplay is basically the movie script. The lines by each character, stage directions, etc.
In most book to movie cases, the writer adapts the book into a screenplay to make it work as a movie. This involves cutting out a lot of things that wouldn’t suit a movie, such as inner monologues, long back stories, etc
Fantastic Beasts was written as a screenplay and is not based on a book. In other words, you won’t find a novel for the film.
Some films are later novelised. That is, in the reverse process, the film is turned into a novel, adding things that are more suitable in novel narratives.
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