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EXCLUSIVE: Radar Pictures has secured the feature film rights for Geronimo Stilton, the best-selling children’s book series about the crime-solving adventures of a mouse journalist and his eccentric gang of family and friends.

Ghost of John McCain, the musical comedy set inside the brain of Donald Trump that got under the skin of Meghan McCain, will make its world premiere Off Broadway this fall, producers announced today.

In what producers are calling a “provocative and zeitgeisty” new musical, The Ghost of John McCain, with a book by Scott Elmegreen and score by Drew Fornarola, will get an invitation-only industry reading in New York this week.

EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee Kari Skogland has been set to direct live-action feature The Age of Legends, the first installment in the planned trilogy of films that will explore the origins of Robert Jordan’s bestselling book series The Wheel of Time.

EXCLUSIVE: DC and Marvel regular Jay Oliva has been set to direct iwot’s upcoming 3D animated feature, The White Tower, based on Robert Jordan’s epic novel series The Wheel Of Time.

Amazon’s TV adaptation of The Wheel Of Time returns for its second season this month.Based on the best-selling fantasy novels by Robert Jordan, the series follows Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) and her companion al’Lan Mandragoran (Daniel Henney) as they search for the reincarnation of The Dragon – an extremely powerful human who is prophesied to take on the evil Dark One.The second season picks up as the five young hopefuls plucked from the Two Rivers region are scattered throughout the world. A synopsis for season two reads: “The Wheel Of Time turns, and the Last Battle approaches.

What happens after the Dark One is vanquished? Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” returns with a world still plagued by evil. This time, Rand and his closest companions from Two Rivers find themselves apart; their distance creates the perfect opportunity for something far more sinister to create chaos.

Prime Video has dropped the Season 2 trailer of The Wheel of Time showcasing everyone preparing for the incoming last battle and Rand al’Thor struggling being The Dragon Reborn. Watch the preview in the video posted above.

Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous creator and X-Men: First Class and Thor screenwriter Zack Stentz is aboard for animated movie The White Tower, inspired by Robert Jordan’s hit graphic novel series The Wheel of Time.

Prime Video has set September 1 for the Season 2 premiere of fantasy epic series The Wheel of Time. We’re also getting a first look at the second season in some new images released today.

Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time has cast Danish model-actress Maja Simonsen, Icelandic actress and former Olympic swimmer Ragga Ragnars, Irish actor Jay Duffy and New Zealand singer, actress and comedian Rima Te Wiata in recurring roles for the hit fantasy drama’s upcoming second season. The announcement was made during today’s virtual panel at JordanCon.

Charna Flam As “The Wheel of Time” prepares to return for a second season at Prime Video, the Amazon Studios production has added four cast members to play characters from Robert Jordan’s series of fantasy novels. The announcement was made Saturday afternoon at JordanCon, which is dedicated to the author and celebrates sci-fi and fantasy writing. Maja Simonsen (“Emily in Paris”), Ragga Ragnars (“Vikings”), Jay Duffy (“Hollyoaks”) and Rima Te Wiata (“Kiri and Lou”) have all joined the series for recurring roles.

EXCLUSIVE: Justine Juel Gillmer, exec producer of Amazon’s big-budget series The Wheel of Time, has scored a studio home.

“The Wheel of Time” isn’t going anywhere. The Prime Video fantasy saga, based on Robert Jordan’s best-selling novels, has been renewed for a third season, it was announced Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con.

The series is set in a magical world accessible to a select few, where a woman named Moiraine (Pike) crosses paths with five young men and women, resulting in a dangerous, world-spanning journey. On how the series will stay in budget for the upcoming season, showrunner Rafe Judkins told TheWrap earlier, “We don’t have the budget of a lot of shows on TV, but we’re trying to deliver everything we can, like every dollar that we have is being juiced to put something on screen so that we can bring as much of this big, epic world that Robert Jordan created to life.”In late April, it was announced that “Killing Eve” alum Ayoola Smart would be added to the series, though details of her character were not released.

Moiraine Damodred and the One Power continues.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“The Wheel of Time” has been renewed for Season 3 at Amazon, Variety has learned.The announcement was made as part of the show’s panel presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. It was also made ahead of the second season premiere of the fantasy series, which does not yet have a premiere date.

EXCLUSIVE: Radar Pictures—the independent film and television production company founded by Emmy winner Ted Field, known for its work on the Jumanji and Riddick franchises—has signed with Buchwald for representation.

Actress Ayoola Smart has joined the cast of Prime Video’s “Wheel of Time” Season 2.Smart will play Aviendha.Executive producer Rafe Judkins made the announcement at a panel for the series at JordanCon 2022.No further details were announced or if her story will follow Robert Jordan’s books. If the character does, Aviendha should be interacting with Moiraine (Rosamund Pike), Egwene (Madeline Madden) and Rand (Josha Stradowski).Smart played Audrey in the third season of BBC America’s “Killing Eve.” As Season 1 came to an end in December 2021, Stradowski offered TheWrap hints at what’s next for Rand, who chose not to return to his friends after his battle with the Dark One.“Rand always had a pretty good idea of who he was, and what he wanted in life, and that changed when Moiraine entered the village,” but there’s more change than he could have imagined, Stradowski said.

Ayoola Smart, who has featured in Killing Eve, is joining the cast of Amazon’s The Wheel of Time.

Amazon’s The Wheel Of Time was the biggest new series last year in the US, according to reports.Based on the books by Robert Jordan, The Wheel Of Time is a fantasy series starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney and Zoe Robins. A second season is currently in the works, which was announced in May last year before the first season aired in November.According to data firm Parrot Analytics (via Business Insider), The Wheel Of Time had the greatest average audience demand in the US in the first 30 days after its premiere of any series last year.

In the wake of the juggernaut success of “Game of Thrones,” the public’s hunger for fantasy on the small screen seemingly hasn’t been bigger, Netflix has put a lot of energy into fleshing out the “The Witcher” universe and we’ve seen Amazon pour a mountain’s worth of cash into their “Lord of The Rings” prequel series alongside a show based on Robert Jordan‘s beloved “Wheel of Time” novels.

Spoiler alert! This story contains details from the finale episode.)The series, from executive producer Rafe Judkins, and based on the books by Robert Jordan, delivered its biggest episode yet, featuring major battles, major carnage, and major turning points for the show’s main characters.What began as rapidly accelerated preparation to stymie the Dark One’s armies and the Dark One from escaping and taking over the world, quickly turned into life or death battles.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla “The Wheel of Time,” Amazon Prime Video’s latest high fantasy series starring Rosamund Pike, Kate Fleetwood and Madeleine Madden, clocked 1.16 billion viewing minutes during its debut week, making it the streamer’s most watched original series since 2020’s “Hunters.”Per Nielsen’s Top 10 SVOD Lists, the show, based on Robert Jordan’s bestselling novels of the same name, premiered as the No. 1 original.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video’s series adaptation of Robert Jordan’s best-selling The Wheel Of Time fantasy novels has come out of the gate strong.

EXCLUSIVE: The highest grossing movie during the pandemic, MGM/UAR’s No Time to Die, was also the most pirated last week for the period of Nov. 15-21.

The first season of Amazon’s adaptation of The Wheel of Time is set to premiere on Friday, 19 November and looks to tell the story made famous in Robert Jordan’s beloved fantasy novels.

Amazon Prime’s “The Wheel of Time” is a ponderous slog, a show that wants so badly to be the next “Game of Thrones” or even “The Witcher” that it telegraphs its pretentious self-seriousness with every line of dialogue and slow turn in the plot. It’s a death march through fantasy TV clichés that likely worked splendidly on the page in Robert Jordan’s books, wherein readers could imagine the exciting world that the people behind this show never bothered to create.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAmazon Prime Video’s new television series “The Wheel of Time,” based on the series of novels by Robert Jordan, draws upon a rich, deep history. Or so this viewer, unfamiliar with Jordan’s work, was left to presume when the show began with Rosamund Pike explaining the backstory and the stakes in rushed voice-over.There’s nothing wrong with voice-over in principle: It can be used well or poorly.

Scott Huver When writer/producer Rafe Judkins was tasked with bringing “The Wheel of Time” — author Robert Jordan’s beloved 14-volume fantasy book series with a zealous following akin to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien and George R.R.

We are still a full year away from the highly-anticipated debut of “The Lord of the Rings” TV series on Amazon. But, in the meantime, if you still need your large-scale fantasy fix, the streamer has another offering for you in November, “The Wheel of Time.” As seen in the trailer for “The Wheel of Time,” Robert Jordan’s iconic fantasy novel series is coming to Amazon Prime Video next month and tells the story of a woman, who is part of an organization of all-female magic users.

Prime Video has a string of shows coming to the streaming platform in November including its own originals Curse of the Chippendales and The Marksman.

Wheel of Time in a whole new light.Amazon's upcoming saga, adapted from Robert Jordan's best-selling fantasy novels, dropped a brand new trailer on Wednesday, and it has Rosamund Pike's Moraine asking who among the five young men and women will be able to stop the Dark One, an evil force whose main goal is to break the spirits and hearts of sentient beings.It's quite a tall order because, as the trailer reveals, danger lurks in corner — including the Dark One's powerful army.

The “Wheel Of Time” is coming to Prime Video Canada.

Rosamund Pike, who stars in the Amazon Prime Video series based on Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” books, also took on the epic task of narrating the audio edition of the late author’s fantasy classic “The Eye of the World.”

Amazon Prime Video series based on Robert Jordan's “The Wheel of Time" books, also took on the epic task of narrating the audio edition of the late author's fantasy classic “The Eye of the World.”“The Eye of the World,” published in 1990, is the first volume of Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” epic.Macmillan Audio announced Thursday that the audiobook comes out Nov. 16, three days before the Amazon series airs.