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Ages ago, twin brothers Rhian and Rafal inaugurated the School for Good and Evil (SGE), meant to prepare its students to participate in popular fairytales. During a friendly duel, a power-thirsty Rafal attacks Rhian using blood magic, seeking to dominate the School. Defending himself, Rhian throws Rafal off a cliff, presumably killing him. In the village of Gavaldon, princess-like and fairytale-obsessed, Sophie, and cynical misfit, Agatha, share an unbreakable friendship since childhood. They visit Deauville’s Storybook Shop, where they discover a copy of Cinderella with the SGE stamp, in which the shop keeper tells both about the school and its purpose. While Agatha is ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy streaming television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for Amazon Prime Video. Based on the novel The Lord of the Rings and its appendices by J. R. R. Tolkien, the series is set in the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It is produced by Amazon Studios in association with New Line Cinema, and in consultation with the Tolkien Estate. Amazon bought the ...

House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series. An independent prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second show in the franchise, created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. Both series are based on the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by Martin. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik are the showrunners. Based on parts of the novel Fire & Blood, the series is set about 200 years before the events of Game of ...

The opening scene is a traffic accident. Two teenagers lie on the road, the girl barely moving, the boy, motionless. Teenager Tessa wakes up in the hospital. In a flashback set 182 days before, Tessa spends the morning taking photos in the coastal town, wandering into the local theater to watch an old French film. Skylar, the other person at the movie, offers to translate. He is a true romantic, he and Tessa have very different views. In a flashback set 102 days before, Tessa is encouraged to apply to the RISD for her photography skills. Later, while shooting a rowing meet, she finally finds Skylar again. They both obviously had been searching for each other. They spend the day ...

The Sandman is an American fantasy drama television series based on the 1989–1996 comic book written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. The series was developed by Gaiman, David S. Goyer, and Allan Heinberg for the streaming service Netflix, and is produced by DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television. Like the comic, The Sandman tells the story of Dream/Morpheus, the titular Sandman. The series stars Tom Sturridge ...

Sam Greenfield is a clumsy, orphaned young woman whose life has been constantly plagued by misfortune and has recently been forced out from her foster home, much to the dismay of her younger friend Hazel, who is hoping to be adopted soon. One night, after sharing a panini with a black cat, she finds a penny she hopes to give to Hazel for her collection of other lucky items to help her get adopted. The next day, Sam notices that the penny has made her luck significantly improve. However, she soon loses the penny by inadvertently flushing it down a toilet. As Sam bemoans her error, she encounters the cat again and tells him what happened, which causes the cat to berate her for losing ...

Alithea Binnie is a British scholar who occasionally suffers from bizarre hallucinations of demonic beings. During a trip to Istanbul, Alithea purchases an antique bottle, and accidentally unleashes a Djinn that was trapped within it. The Djinn offers to grant Alithea three wishes, so long as each one is truly her heart’s desire, but Alithea argues that wishing is a mistake, accusing the Djinn of being a trickster. In response to her accusation, the Djinn proceeds to tell her three tales of his past and how he ended up trapped in the bottle. The Djinn tells the story of the Queen of Sheba, his cousin and lover, being wooed by King Solomon, who imprisons the Djinn in a bottle to ...

In Kweilin, China, 1932, Newt Scamander helps a Qilin — a magical creature that can see into one’s soul as well as the future — give birth. Gellert Grindelwald’s acolytes, led by Credence Barebone, attack and kill the mother and kidnap the newborn. Grindelwald subsequently kills the creature to harness its ability of precognition. However, unbeknownst to them, the Qilin had twins, the younger of which Newt saved. Unable to battle Grindelwald due to their blood pact, Albus Dumbledore recruits Newt, his brother Theseus, Ilvermorny Charms teacher Lally Hicks, Senegalese-French wizard Yusuf Kama, American No-Maj Jacob Kowalski and Newt’s assistant Bunty Broadacre to ...

During the unmasking of a bank-robbing clown, Scooby-Doo hears a strange noise and is driven to dance and then run away. Meanwhile, Courage appears to be having the same problem, though Muriel and Eustace Bagge don’t seem to notice. The gang rushes after Scooby only to find that they have ended up in Nowhere, where a group of hostile cicadas is surrounding Courage and Scooby. After killing the cicadas, they are called inside the Bagge household and properly meet Muriel and Eustace. Both the Scooby gang and the Bagge family are invited to dinner with the Mayor of Nowhere, but on the way there, Scooby and Courage are attacked by a giant Cicada Queen, resulting in the destruction ...

Five hundred years ago, the peaceful and prosperous sub-continent of Kumandra is ravaged by the Druun, evil, dark-colored spirits that turn every living thing in its path to stone. Sisu, the last surviving dragon, is given her siblings’ magic which was placed in a gem. She concentrates her magic into the gem and blasts the Druun away, reviving Kumandra’s people but not its dragons. A power struggle for the gem divides Kumandra’s people into five separate kingdoms called Fang, Heart, Spine, Talon and Tail, corresponding to their placement along a gigantic dragon-shaped river. Five hundred years later, Chief Benja of the Heart tribe, ...

Picking up from “Chapter 13: The Stone Forest”, Hilda, now a troll, runs away from Trylla and is petrified by the sunlight when she leaves the Stone Forest. Meanwhile, in Trolberg, Johanna discovers Baba in Hilda’s place, and Tontu deduces Hilda had become the victim of a changeling spell. Realizing what this means, Johanna, Baba, Tontu, Alfur, and Twig go searching for Hilda but are unable to locate the entrance into the Stone Forest. Elsewhere, Erik Ahlberg holds a press conference in which he announces a curfew because of the increasing troll activity outside Trollberg. The students of Edmund Ahlberg Elementary School watch a safety video about trolls, ...

Thirty-two years after defeating Vigo the Carpathian, the Ghostbusters have disbanded after a decline in supernatural activities in New York City. Egon Spengler has relocated to Summerville, Oklahoma, where occultist Ivo Shandor’s mining operations are located. Egon captures a bestial entity from Shandor’s mine, aiming to lure a potent entity to a painstaking trap in his farm. When the trap’s capacitors fail, he hides the ghost trap that caught his captive under his farmhouse’s living room floor. Egon struggles with another entity and suffers a fatal heart attack. Callie, Egon’s estranged daughter, and her two children, ...

At a science fair, Wednesday Addams is set to present her experiment, where she uses her pet squid Socrates’ DNA on Uncle Fester to show how humans can be improved (with the side effect of gradually transmutating Fester). However, she is dismayed when she sees her family show up. Nonetheless, her work gets noticed by scientist Cyrus Strange. Back at the Addams’ home, Gomez worries that the children are drifting apart from him and Morticia, so he decides to take them on a family vacation. Before the family, Fester, Thing, and Lurch head on a road trip across the United States, Gomez and Morticia are approached by a lawyer named Mr. Mustela; who claims that Wednesday was ...

Arcane (titled onscreen as Arcane: League of Legends) is a 2021 adult animated streaming television series. It is set in the League of Legends universe. The series was announced at the League of Legends 10th anniversary celebration. It was produced by French animation studio Fortiche under the supervision of Riot Games. Set in the past relative to the League of Legends universe, Arcane serves as a prequel to the game and retells the origin stories of several characters from Piltover and Zaun. Like the game on which it is based, Arcane is aimed at a “16+” audience. Many news outlets have also noted that the show appeals to both ...

In the 16th century, Don Aguirre leads Spanish conquistadors to South America in search of the Tears of the Moon, a mythical tree whose petals can cure any illness, heal any injury, and lift any curse. After most men die in the jungle, the survivors are nursed back to health by a local tribe using the tree petals. When they refuse to reveal the location of the tree, the Spanish destroy the village. As punishment, the conquistadors became cursed by the village chief to never die and never be able to leave sight of the river or the jungle would take them back to it for all eternity. In 1916 London, Dr. Lily Houghton and her brother, MacGregor, present ...

In 1959, Luca Paguro, a timid young sea monster, herds goatfish off the coast of the Italian town of Portorosso. His parents, Daniela and Lorenzo, fearing that humans might hunt him, forbid him to approach the surface. One day, Luca meets Alberto Scorfano, a fellow sea monster child who lives alone above the surface, claiming that his father simply is not around much. Alberto encourages Luca to adventure out of the ocean, showing him that sea monsters turn into humans when dry, but return to their true forms when wet. Luca follows Alberto to his hideout on Isola del Mare, where the boys connect while making and riding a makeshift, fragile Vespa. Upon discovering their son’s ...

Come Away is a 2020 fantasy drama film directed by Brenda Chapman (In her Live Action Directional Debut) and starring David Oyelowo, Anna Chancellor, Angelina Jolie, Michael Caine, Clarke Peters, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Gyasi and Derek Jacobi. ...

In 1973, Ivan the gorilla lives with an African elephant named Stella, Mack’s spoiled pet poodle named Snickers, a spunky baseball-playing chicken named Henrietta, a toy fire truck-riding rabbit named Murphy, a paranoid sea lion named Frankie and a loquacious parrot named Thelma. Ivan’s main friend is a stray mutt named Bob who secretly lives in his enclosure unless Mack has the security guard Castello drive him out. Mack’s janitorial employee George brings his daughter Julia who frequently interacts with Ivan. One day, Julia leaves her old crayons with Ivan who suddenly begins taking an interest in drawing with them. Julia is apparently the only one who can decipher ...

The Mystery Inc. gang are in a covert operation in Elvira’s Halloween of Horrors Parade in Crystal Cove to capture the Haunted Scarecrow. The gang unmasks the Haunted Scarecrow as Dr. Jonathan Crane a.k.a. the Scarecrow, a former escapee convict of Arkham Asylum. While Velma explains how she solved the mystery by tracing a fan mail sent to Elvira by Crane and measuring gas leakage in the air, gas drones carrying fear gas canisters set up by Crane appears in the sky. As everyone starts panicking, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy shoot down the drones by using Halloween candies as projectiles. Before being pulled away by the federal agents, Dr. Crane tells Velma that his drones did not leak, ...

In Ireland in 1650, the residents of the town of Kilkenny are working to clear the nearby woods under orders from the authoritarian Lord Protector, putting them at odds with a wolf pack. English hunter Bill Goodfellowe, with his rebellious daughter Robyn, has been summoned to Kilkenny by the Lord Protector to exterminate the wolves. Wanting to help Bill, Robyn secretly follows him out of town with her pet falcon, Merlyn. After accidentally shooting Merlyn with her crossbow while trying to kill a wolf, Robyn watches a mysterious girl take him into the woods and follows them. Upon finding Merlyn, miraculously healed, a young wolf startles her into a trap. As the wolf frees Robyn, she ...