Game of Thrones effect fires up reissues of ‘lost’ fantasy fiction classics | Fantasy books

The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle’s 1968 novel, is being reissued in the UK after a long rights battles.

It is a lyrical, beautiful fantasy story about a mythical beast who sets out on a quest into a world that no longer believes in her to find out if she is truly the last […]

Who owns The Lord of the Rings rights? Embracer Group buys in, but it’s not the only player

Concept art from The War of the Rohirrim

Embracer Group, the ambitious, acquisition-hungry Swedish gaming conglomerate, has bought the rights to make films, games, merchandise, and theme parks based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The deal comes […]

Embracer Group’s game buying spree includes rights to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Embracer Group’s game buying spree includes rights to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Embracer Group has embarked on an acquisition spree today that includes Limited Run Games, Tripwire Interactive, and the IP rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. There are five acquisitions in total today, […]

Peter Jackson wants to wipe his mind of Lord of the Rings. He should snap out of it | Movies

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings project needs to be a success. By some degree the most expensive television series ever made, it will arrive at an incredibly perilous time for the platform. People have […]

STARDUST Is an Argument for Fantasy Lite

Tristan and Yvaine on the Stardust movie poster

If you look at the type of fantasy stories being greenlit for film and television these days, you can see a trend. From Game of Thrones to Shadow and Bone, the industry seemingly prioritizes extensive […]

All the times Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman was almost a movie before Netflix

Dream of the Endless, huge, pale, shock-haired, holds Doctor Destiny in the palm of his hand. “Thank you, John Dee,” he says, in The Sandman Vol. 1, DC Comics (1989).

If you’ve ever thought, Would Patton Oswalt be a good voice for a talking raven? Netflix’s The Sandman is here to answer your question. Whether it answers in the affirmative or the negative is, ultimately, […]

Paper Girls review: the Amazon series takes too long to get fun and weird

Paper Girls review: the Amazon series takes too long to get fun and weird

It doesn’t take long for the Paper Girls comic books to get strange. The series from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang starts out with a dream about an astronaut with angel wings and a […]

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Trailer, cast, and more

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Elrond kneels

This year, Amazon is taking a big swing. Come this fall, they’ll officially drop their blockbuster new series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. That subtitle is revealing, of course, but all […]

Why is Netflix suddenly so desperate?

Robin, Steve, and Dustin in Stranger Things 3

On Tuesday, Netflix told investors that it had lost almost 1 million subscribers in the second quarter of the year, and would be hastening plans for a cheaper, ad-supported subscription tier and a clampdown on […]

Full-length trailer for Amazon’s £1bn Lord of the Rings prequel is released | Lord of the Rings

Morfydd Clark at the Baftas in March this year.

The first full-length trailer for Amazon’s £1bn Lord of the Rings prequel has been released, with Morfydd Clark’s debut as Galadriel getting a starring role in the promotion for the keenly awaited series that will […]

The Evolution of Thor, Marvel’s Mainstay

The Evolution of Thor, Marvel’s Mainstay

Marvel Studios/Ringer illustration Unlike most of Marvel’s original Avengers, Thor is still in the spotlight—and the key to the character’s longevity is his capacity to change The first time the titular God of Thunder appears […]