As Dreamers Do Part Deux

Entertainment News for Early-to-Mid September 2010

COUNTER-OFFER?

In response to Saul Zaentz offering Paramount's Hobbit rights to Henson, Walden Media has offered to move distribution of the Chronicles of Narnia film franchise from Paramount to Henson after the release of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Paramount later this year. The fans of Narnia and the fans of the Lord of the Rings franchise anxiously await a resolution to this sword-and-sorcery game of musical chairs.
- Entertainment Tonight

SONY ATLANTIS?
The Winnipeg Free Press reports that CanWest has been talking to Sony's Canadian branch for over a year on a possible sale of Alliance Atlantis to Sony in a bid for CanWest's survival. A possible sale of Alliance Atlantis to Sony would allow CanWest to use the potential cash infusion to focus solely on the Global television network.
- CBC News: The National

Alliance with Henson?
Brian Henson has met with CanWest executives on a possible sale of Alliance Atlantis to The Jim Henson Company.
- CNBC

Luxor Pictures hopes Game of Thrones, based on George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, is the key to their survival when it is released next spring.
- The Hollywood Reporter

RUMOR MILL: Stephen King says he is auctioning off the film rights to The Dark Tower. King said in a statement that he hopes the highest bidder will be faithful to his books.
- Variety

The Sports Page
The St. Louis Sorcerers crash the party with a hard-fought 20-17 win over the New York Giants in the first-ever regular season game at MetLife Stadium. The winning field goal came off the foot of Sorcerers kicker Josh Scobee.
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I like the idea of paramount losing both narina and the hobbit and adapting some fnasty novel that was never addapted. Novel i suggest includes


The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

The Kingkiller Chronicle

Elantris


Mistborn


The Stormlight Archive

The Well at the World's End


The Wood Beyond the World



The Sword of Truth


A Spell for Chameleon


The Water of the Wondrous Isles


The Sundering Flood

The King of Elfland's Daughter


The Face in the Frost


Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn


The Worm Ouroboros


Lud-in-the-Mist


The Well of the Unicorn


The Story of the Glittering Plain



Elantris Mistborn The Stormlight Archive




In case you don't regonize any of thse books I provied hyper links in the list of title

Elantris Mistborn The Stormlight Archive are by the same authur Brain sanderson
The chroicsle of thomas and the sword of turh are probbly better off as tv series because part of huge series

A spell is the first entry in the huge xanth series but I belive that the xanth series is lossly enough that the first novel could be adpte with ending on a cillfhange making the viewers wanting more

The well at the world's end the story of the giltering plain The isle of wonderous waters the sundering flood and the wood beyond the world are 19th century public doimion title by willima morris. The works of moriss are obsure but they are considered to be the first modern fansty set in comptle fansy insead of fansitc land that part of earth cut off form the know world of the dream of people of the real world. JR tolkin said that the the works of moris were major inspiton for the lord of the rings. He borrowed the names Gandalf (although moris spelled it with an o instead of an a) form the well at the end of the

The king of elfland daught orignally went under the radar when first published in 1924 but it became huge hit with the critis when republished in 1969. I was was last republished in the fnasty master work which a series of reprint of infucstiocal fansty novel pubishe by orion publishing which is a subcidary of Hachette UK.

The Worm Ouroboros Lud-in-the-Mist The Well of the Unicorn were other old novels published in part of the fansty master works.

The face in the frost is a fansyt novela by jhon belliers. The face in the frost is belliers best know adult work but he is better for his childern novel. Note his first childern book the house with a clock in wall was oringally writen for audlts but belleirs publish told him to rewirte it for kids. There was a failed house with a clock in its wall movie a few years bakc. Pehrsp it should be replaced with a face in the forst movie

 
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I like the idea of paramount losing both narina and the hobbit and adapting some fnasty novel that was never addapted. Novel i suggest includes


The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

The Kingkiller Chronicle

Elantris


Mistborn


The Stormlight Archive

The Well at the World's End


The Wood Beyond the World



The Sword of Truth


A Spell for Chameleon


The Water of the Wondrous Isles


The Sundering Flood

The King of Elfland's Daughter


The Face in the Frost


Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn


The Worm Ouroboros


Lud-in-the-Mist


The Well of the Unicorn


The Story of the Glittering Plain



Elantris Mistborn The Stormlight Archive




In case you don't regonize any of thse books I provied hyper links in the list of title

Elantris Mistborn The Stormlight Archive are by the same authur Brain sanderson
The chroicsle of thomas and the sword of turh are probbly better off as tv series because part of huge series

A spell is the first entry in the huge xanth series but I belive that the xanth series is lossly enough that the first novel could be adpte with ending on a cillfhange making the viewers wanting more

The well at the world's end the story of the giltering plain The isle of wonderous waters the sundering flood and the wood beyond the world are 19th century public doimion title by willima morris. The works of moriss are obsure but they are considered to be the first modern fansty set in comptle fansy insead of fansitc land that part of earth cut off form the know world of the dream of people of the real world. JR tolkin said that the the works of moris were major inspiton for the lord of the rings. He borrowed the names Gandalf (although moris spelled it with an o instead of an a) form the well at the end of the

The king of elfland daught orignally went under the radar when first published in 1924 but it became huge hit with the critis when republished in 1969. I was was last republished in the fnasty master work which a series of reprint of infucstiocal fansty novel pubishe by orion publishing which is a subcidary of Hachette UK.

The Worm Ouroboros Lud-in-the-Mist The Well of the Unicorn were other old novels published in part of the fansty master works.

The face in the frost is a fansyt novela by jhon belliers. The face in the frost is belliers best know adult work but he is better for his childern novel. Note his first childern book the house with a clock in wall was oringally writen for audlts but belleirs publish told him to rewirte it for kids. There was a failed house with a clock in its wall movie a few years bakc. Pehrsp it should be replaced with a face in the forst movie

You know....those could both work. Henson gets Narnia while Saban gets Lord of the Rings.
 
Eoin Colfer (to his literary agent):
"Ask Paramount if they want Artemis Fowl if they lose The Hobbit..."
Artimes fowl seems more like a substitute for narnia becuse it a young adult novel dealing with a kid from our world interning with the fairy world. The novels I listed early are high fanasty like the hobbit. did you read the list which is your favorite. If they lose lose the hobbit I would go with something by William Morris’s be use his work is in the public domino and his the insertion for tolkin
 
Will dubia ever get . You said that Disney and paramount are definitely not building in dubia Becuse of their human rights record. also you said that Bally is being pressured to cancelled their dubia park by activists. pluse you said that six kings has now interest In Building a new park instead focusing on upgrading there existing parks. I hope you change your mind about six kings building Any new parks. That just leaves peakcok and Warner. I am more interested in peakcok opening in dubia Becuse Warner built a park park in Abha dubia otl. Do to the lack of American company,s willing to build In dubia Dubai end up offering I cities to get Chinese company’s like happy valley, fantawild, chimelong ever grand Wanda or sumac. Happy valley chimelong and fantawild are most likely to build in dubia becuse they are the oldest and most established theme park comanyies wanda had big ambitions during the 2010. they abot projects planed in china and couple planed aboard. However they only opened o e or two parks and sold them along with several unfished project to sumac. The unfhished projects sold to sunac did Not include the ones out side of china. They never got off the group. Evergrand like Wanda also tried building too many amtious parks. Unlike the Wanda parks I don,t know if any of them even opened
 
Disney hasn't bought out any parks form other company otl. I guess this because disney has high standards. They did buyout wonderland sydney atl. Thus disney seams more open to buying parks form other companies. Here are some parks disney may be instered in buying

1 Dunia Fantasi (Fantasy World) in indoenisa. It is part of the ancole dreamland complex. IT intenraitonal standard park . Heres a link to info on.
Thumbnail for Ancol Dreamland
Ancol Dreamland. IT may be diffuclt to buy because the main share holder of anclol dreamland is the city of jakarat

2 Edenlandia.

This park in d Naples is Europe's first disenyland style theme park. It did well with both domestic and international tourist in early years, but started declining when other larger modern parks started opening. The park is next to the Naples zoo and a race track.IT closed in 2011 otl after a failed plan to merge it with the zoo and racetrack but reopened in 2018r. Alot of the old rides can ealy be rused by disney. In fact park bought the oringal dumb the flying elphant ride form disney land. Edndlandi is a bit small for a disney park at only 38 aces but there is room to expand buy buying out the racetrack and maybe the zoo nextdoor. IT is alos centelraly located in downtown napels would provide you a link the endelandia wiki page but it is only in itlain and i am not sure if hyperlink to a google trnasteld versoion would work
3 Tera enchated. This park has a dark. IT closed in 2010 otl but stood untill 2016. it was damged by fire in 2014

4 Fränkisches Wunderland, This park closed in 2013. IT may be one disney radar because they have wild west town seciton and a fairytale section. but I feel disney would be more intersted in endenlania.
5 Dreamworld. This Bangok park has seciton modled on disney mainstreet and fnasty land

6 Bento carrneo world. The closest thing brazil has to disnyland. Has lands simlalr to mainstreet fansty land and frontierland but noghting like tomorowland

7 Dream park. This park is the largest in eygpt and probbly the close thing the contient of affica has to disneyland. I can't much informiton but i found a review that said it had good themeing

8 This little park has been compared more to universal then disneyland. IT does have a dino river ride that could be converted into a jungle cruise. The park is also part of the eygptian media city stuido. Buying the egptain media city would give disney a foothood in eygpaitn media. Magicland closed after the eygpatin revoultion but it is still stanidng
 
Disney hasn't bought out any parks form other company otl. I guess this because disney has high standards. They did buyout wonderland sydney atl. Thus disney seams more open to buying parks form other companies. Here are some parks disney may be instered in buying

1 Dunia Fantasi (Fantasy World) in indoenisa. It is part of the ancole dreamland complex. IT intenraitonal standard park . Heres a link to info on.
Thumbnail for Ancol Dreamland
Ancol Dreamland. IT may be diffuclt to buy because the main share holder of anclol dreamland is the city of jakarat

2 Edenlandia.

This park in d Naples is Europe's first disenyland style theme park. It did well with both domestic and international tourist in early years, but started declining when other larger modern parks started opening. The park is next to the Naples zoo and a race track.IT closed in 2011 otl after a failed plan to merge it with the zoo and racetrack but reopened in 2018r. Alot of the old rides can ealy be rused by disney. In fact park bought the oringal dumb the flying elphant ride form disney land. Edndlandi is a bit small for a disney park at only 38 aces but there is room to expand buy buying out the racetrack and maybe the zoo nextdoor. IT is alos centelraly located in downtown napels would provide you a link the endelandia wiki page but it is only in itlain and i am not sure if hyperlink to a google trnasteld versoion would work
3 Tera enchated. This park has a dark. IT closed in 2010 otl but stood untill 2016. it was damged by fire in 2014

4 Fränkisches Wunderland, This park closed in 2013. IT may be one disney radar because they have wild west town seciton and a fairytale section. but I feel disney would be more intersted in endenlania.
5 Dreamworld. This Bangok park has seciton modled on disney mainstreet and fnasty land

6 Bento carrneo world. The closest thing brazil has to disnyland. Has lands simlalr to mainstreet fansty land and frontierland but noghting like tomorowland

7 Dream park. This park is the largest in eygpt and probbly the close thing the contient of affica has to disneyland. I can't much informiton but i found a review that said it had good themeing

8 This little park has been compared more to universal then disneyland. IT does have a dino river ride that could be converted into a jungle cruise. The park is also part of the eygptian media city stuido. Buying the egptain media city would give disney a foothood in eygpaitn media. Magicland closed after the eygpatin revoultion but it is still stanidng
Ok you need to settle down
*draws attention back to the point at hand
so out of curiosity @OldNavy1988 have you reached a verdict about the YA fantasy novel based movie scene yet
 
Ok you need to settle down
*draws attention back to the point at hand
so out of curiosity @OldNavy1988 have you reached a verdict about the YA fantasy novel based movie scene yet

The more likely scenario is Paramount attempting to get the rights to Artemis Fowl once they resolve the dispute with New Line over The Hobbit.

Most of the those other books I can honestly say I never knew existed IOTL until they were mentioned in this thread.
 
The more likely scenario is Paramount attempting to get the rights to Artemis Fowl once they resolve the dispute with New Line over The Hobbit.

Most of the those other books I can honestly say I never knew existed IOTL until they were mentioned in this thread.
Have you heard of any of the books on my list. I Still like idea of some old milsdy obscure public domion story being turned in a movie
 
The mistborn and The storm archies are really popular. I never read them but I read elaritst which the first book by the offer of the storm archie and mistborn. i though elatris was good. I hope you will follow this hyper link

Elantris

That one definitely has potential.

Maybe as the signature franchise for a new mid-major studio?
 
Entertainment News for Early to Mid-September 2010 Part 2
Entertainment News for Early to Mid-September 2010 Part 2

LEAKED:
Columbia-TriStar chairman Michael Uslan has supposedly sent a memo to the Gidget writers' room to implement a contingency plan that calls for the writers to prepare two sets of scripts for the second season: One that allows Dwane "The Rock" Johnson's Russell Lawrence to still be a supporting character on the show, and the other which could see Gidget adopted by a foster family before her 16th birthday. The second set of scripts will only go into production if The Rock were be fired from the Oaxis show amid rumors of his repeated tardiness during the making of the first five episodes.
- Variety

New Line Cinema and Middle-earth Enterprises agree to pay Paramount Pictures $200 million USD for the distribution rights to The Hobbit. In exchange, Eoin Colfer has offered Paramount the multimedia rights to his Artemis Fowl book series. New Line has slated The Hobbit for a Thanksgiving or Christmas release in 2012 or '13.
- The Hollywood Reporter

Universal agrees in principle to acquire the multimedia rights to Scholastic's book series The 39 Clues. The first book in the series, The Maze of Bones, will be the first to be adapted to film. However, Universal declined to comment on an exact release date.
- Entertainment Tonight
 
For the first batch of DVD releases of Soul Eater, Junjo Romantica, Spice and Wolf and Rosario+Vampire, this is how each disc would start when you start your DVD player...

Paramount Home Media Distribution handles the releases of MGM's anime on DVD while VHS cassettes are licensed out to Limited Run.
 
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