#fantasy-films

#fantasy-films

Last year changed the way many of us thought about software. It certainly changed the way I did. I spent much of 2025 building, probing, and questioning how to build software, and in many more ways what I want to do.

Amazon has invested far too much in The Rings of Power to cancel it. The streamer invested more than a small fortune to get its slice of JRR Tolkien's intellectual property, costing around $1 billion to get The Rings of Power off the ground.

House of the Dragon was the first Game of Thrones spinoff series to hit screens. It's adapted from Martin's fictional history of House Targaryen, Fire & Blood, which draws on unreliable narratives and sometimes conflicting first-person accounts. The show was an instant success upon its 2022 premiere, breaking viewership records at HBO and credited with reviving interest in Westeros after the divisive Game of Thrones finale.

A steam train featuring in the upcoming Harry Potter television series is scheduled to visit the Epping Ongar Railway this spring, including the Easter weekend. The nearly 80-year old steam locomotive 6989 'Wightwick Hall' will star as the Hogwarts Express in the TV series. Repainted into red livery for its television role, the locomotive is expected to operate steam-hauled services along the Epping Ongar Railway throughout April.

The Pendragon Cycle is a TV series executive-produced by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro exclusively for DailyWire+. If you're unfamiliar, it's the conservative streaming outlet attached to Shapiro's The Daily Wire news service. As "alternative" broadcasting like the "All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show" becomes the new normal for the MAGA faithful, The Pendragon Cycle is a discount Game of Thrones that retells the story of King Arthur's most-trusted magician during the arrival of Christianity.

I'm categorically not," he said when asked in a recent The Times interview whether he is set to play Voldemort. "Can you make that the headline?" he asked, seemingly keen to make it known far and wide that he wouldn't take on the role.

Director Ben Gregor wanted his cast to interact with the fantastical surroundings as much as possible. And so, on their sound stage in Reading, Gadsdon found herself filming in a grove of marshmallow trees, surrounded by giant flying-saucer plants and Haribo strawberry beds. I did eat a few, she confides. The Land of Birthdays was just as fun she was filmed in those scenes in the middle of a giant cake, as rollerskating elves disco-danced by.

In 2017, New Zealand artist Rachel Smythe started publishing the webcomic Lore Olympus on her Tumblr page. It was a lush, watercolor reimagining of the story of Hades and Persephone in a world where Hades is a sensitive but guarded romantic hero dressed in business suits, and Persephone is a bright-pink young woman whose hair reveals her emotions. The bright colors of Lore Olympus will be reflected in an animated series.

Midway through the credits was a first look at the next season, confirming that Season 3 will premiere later this year. In the preview, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) takes Percy's (Walker Scobell) hand, as she leads him through a dance hall full of balloons and twinkly lights. They take to the floor as "Until I Found You" by Stephen Sanchez plays. This is a huge treat for all of those #Percabeth fans.

In an interview with YouTuber Jake's Takes , the 86-year-old actor talked about his decades-long career across film, TV, and stage, and while talking about how the original had to pull off some of Magneto's metal-bending destruction more practically, he mentioned that pulling off these types of scenes is much "easier" today thanks to advancements in special effects. He goes on to say he destroys New Jersey in a scene in , before realizing he probably wasn't supposed to say that.

In the world of , you can't move for Aegons. In Game of Thrones, a much-anticipated plot twist revealed Jon Snow wasn't the bastard son of Eddard Stark. In fact, he was secretly Aegon Targaryen, son of the Mad King Rhaegar and Lyanna Stark. Then, House of the Dragon introduced King Aegon II, the son of King Jaehaerys and Queen Alicent. Finally, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms revealed its bald squire, Egg, was actually Aegon Targaryen, the future King Aegon V.

As a series-length adaptation of Rowling's first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the first season of the Harry Potter series will have a much larger canvas on which to tell its story. That means the reboot will contain some new additions - and according to Lox Pratt, who plays Potter's arch-rival, Draco Malfoy, in the series, those additions include more backstory for one of the most loathed characters in the Wizarding World.

"It does go against the warmth of Ron,"

Since opening on Broadway, Harry Potter and the Cursed Childthe stage sequel that extends J.K. Rowling's wizarding saga decades beyond the original books and films, with Harry, Ron, Hermione and Draco now middle-aged parentshas been a moving target: artistically ambitious, commercially resilient, and constantly evolving in response to a changing theater economy. But nothing in the show's long trajectory compares to what happened when Tom Felton joined the cast this season to reprise Draco Malfoy, the role he played across eight blockbuster Harry Potter films.

I wrote and directed the Mel Gibson film Payback but got fired during post-production. It was my first film as director and I thought my career was over. It was during this downtime that I wrote A Knight's Tale. I loved the idea that jousting tournaments were medieval sports, but I had never figured out what to do with it.

Melling plays Colin, a certified beta whose deepest desire is to serve. He gets his wish when he meets Ray (Skarsgård), a toppy, Tom of Finland -esque biker with an attitude so icy it could preserve food. The two enter into a full-time power-exchange relationship that fuels both of their desires, until their connection evolves to a heart-wrenching breaking point.