Dan Radcliffe will not be voicing his character in the upcoming Half-Blood Prince videogame, due to conflicting arrangements. His official voice double will cover for him. [More at The Leaky Cauldron] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Hands-on Preview Actor Matthew Lewis, portrayer of Neville Longbottom in the Potter films, is now using Twitter. He [...]
If you’ve heard much about the Wheel of Time series, then you probably know that the final book in the series has been in the works for some time by Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to continue Robert Jordan’s work after he died. The final book, which is supposed to be released sometime this Fall, [...]
ABC’s Legend of the Seeker, a TV show based on Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, mainly the first book at the moment, has been cleared for a second season, and will continue to be syndicated across multiple networks. The show has been fairly successful so far, despite its relatively high production costs. Distributors are [...]
The New Zealand Geographic Board is considering the renaming of a stretch of river to “Anduin Reach,” after the Great River of Wilderland in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. I have put forward a Naming Proposal to the NZ Geographic Board to name a stretch of the Upper Waiau River between Lakes Manapouri [...]
Smallville returns tomorrow, after the latest multi-week break, with a new and intriguing episode. The promo looks promising, with two opening lines that should mean a lot to anybody who has watched the season so far, CLARK: “Lois, I want you to tell my story… I’m the Red-Blue Blur.” LOIS: “I guess I should stop [...]
Back in December, Walden Media’s partership with Disney for the Narnia franchise fell apart. Variety.com reports that the third Narnia film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will be released on December 10, 2010, through a new partnership with Twentieth Century Fox. This will no doubt be a relief to many Narnia fans, after the uncertainty [...]
The second part of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows movie is currently scheduled to be released on July 15, 2011, following the November 19, 2010 release of the first half of the movie. The film, to be split into two parts to “do the book justice,” is currently in production. The upcoming Harry [...]
Stephen King recently gave his views on Stephenie Meyer and her “Twilight” series. (Which, for the record, is not considered to be a fantasy series by this website. It’s a romance thriller, and not something we would generally cover here.) “Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is [...]
How does one go out and find fresh news in the fantasy sphere? It’s not easy, and it’s time-consuming. Luckily, it just got easier. Fantasy Wire, a new section of FantasyFolder.com, automatically aggregates fantasy news from around the internet. Several times a day, it pings certain sites and checks to see if they have anything [...]
Back in 2007, leading in to 2008, RDR Books was sued by J. K. Rowling and Warner Brothers to prevent the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon, by Steve Vander Ark, a companion encyclopedia to the Harry Potter series. The book was deemed to contain too much of Ms. Rowling’s material, and publication was halted [...]
