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CONAN THE BARBARIAN opens August 19th, from Lionsgate.

Here’s the full trailer for CONAN THE BARBARIAN. Looks like plenty of swords and a nice amount of sorcery

CONAN the Barbarian Lives, Loves, and Slays. And he is content…

American World Pictures and Bron Studios wrap production on fantasy film in Bulgaria.

HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” fantasy series.

Conan to battle it out in 3-D next August

Here’s the latest trailer for HBO’s GAME OF THRONES, based on the first novel in SF/Fantasy author George R.R. Martins’s (BEAUTY & THE BEAST, TV) fantasy epic book series A Song of Ice and Fire

Steven Lang reveals there will be a fantasy element.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, casting has begun on CAMELOT, a series to be broadcast in the US on the premium STARZ cable channel.
Joseph Fiennes (FLASH FORWARD) has been cast as the wizard Merlin, while Eva Green (CASINO ROYALE) will portray Morgan le Fey.
Jamie Campbell Bower (TWILIGHT: NEW MOON) will play the young [...]

Frank Frazetta
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that fantasy artist Frank Frazetta passed away in a Florida hospital this morning, after suffering a stroke on Sunday; he was 82. For decades, Frazetta set the standard for fantasy illustrations, especially for the sword-and-sorcery sub-genre: his book covers and other artwork defined some literary characters, like Robert [...]

According to EW’s The Ausiello Files ABC Studios/Ghost House Pictures’ LEGEND OF THE SEEKER has been canceled.
The New Zealand-produced syndicated fantasy show, based on Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth book series has run only two seasons.
EW attributes the series’ apparent demise on the fact the Tribune Group’s local stations had dropped the series, and that [...]

The heroes of Comedy Central's "Krod Mandoon & the Flaming Sword of Fire"
Comedy Central’s first foray into classic sword & sorcery spoofery, KROD MANDOON AND THE FLAMING SWORD OF FIRE, pretty much sums up its own level of humor right there in the title. See, it could be “… and the Flaming Sword” or “… [...]