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Paramount Nabs ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ in Linear TV Licensing Deal

Paramount Nabs ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Fantastic Beasts’ in Linear TV Licensing Deal

Published by Daniella Wilson

Paramount has become the new linear TV home for Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts movies after signing a a multiyear licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal, coming as the Paramount-WBD merger nears the finish line, covers 11 films and will kick off with marathon play for the eight Harry Potter tentpoles adapting J.K. Rowling’s novel series and three Fantastic Beasts spinoffs on MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite and Paramount Network, starting on July 3. “Expanding Paramount’s portfolio with the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films underscores our commitment to delivering world-class franchises to the wide range of audiences our brands serve. As one of the most beloved and enduring franchises in entertainment, Harry Potter continues to captivate audiences across generations, and this addition enables us to deliver the magic and adventure of these timeless stories to fans of all ages,” Laurel Weir, head of programming and acquisitions for Paramount Media Networks, said in a statement. Paramount’s $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. aims to transform the studio into a theatrical and news giant amid competition in Hollywood from …

The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey

The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey

Published by José Betancourt

Some sequels widen the world. Some sink deeper into a single beating heart. The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey tries to do both, and the strain shows in places, but it stands as one of the most morally serious space operas in recent memory. This second entry in The Captive’s War picks up the human survivors of the Carryx invasion exactly where readers left them at the end of The Mercy of Gods: alive, useful, and starting to suspect that usefulness might be the worst thing of all. Where the Trilogy Stands So Far If you are coming in cold, here is the shape of things. The Mercy of Gods dropped about four thousand humans into the Carryx world-palace as captive labor. Livesuit, the connected novella, follows soldiers on a different front of the same eternal war. The Faith of Beasts by James S.A. Corey is the second full novel, and it widens the canvas without letting go of any earlier thread. Together, the three works form a triptych about life under an …