Cabinet Entertainment

Cabinet Entertainment, previously known as Paradox Entertainment, is a company dealing in intellectual properties and making motion pictures thereof. All business is conducted from the main office in Los Angeles, United States. The company was founded in 2015 by CEO Fredrik Malmberg, previously co-founder of Swedish role-playing game publishing house Target Games and CEO of Paradox Entertainment.

One of its most famous holdings is through Conan Properties International, a wholly owned subsidiary to Cabinet Entertainment. That is the rights to Conan the Barbarian as created by pulp author Robert E. Howard and expanded upon by many other authors over the years. Other properties held by Cabinet Entertainment include Bran Mak Morn, Kull, Solomon Kane, Mutant, Mutant Chronicles, Warzone, Kult, and Chronopia. Former licences include Heavy Gear.

History

Paradox Entertainment started out in 1999,[1] created from the bankrupted Target Games (known at that time as Target Games Interactive), the major Swedish role-playing games company.[2]

In 2004, the company moved its business to Los Angeles. At this time, the Stockholm operation was spun off into Paradox Interactive.[3]

Paradox Entertainment claims that the company own the rights to all of Robert E. Howard's stories and characters.

Further information: Conan the Barbarian ยง Copyright and trademark dispute

On August 21, 2011 the day the 2011 Conan film opened, SLMI (Stan Lee Media Inc) sued (unsuccessfully)[4] Paradox Entertainment, Conan Sales Co., Arthur Lieberman and others over the rights to Conan as they claim Conan was improperly transferred to Conan Sales Co. and sold to Paradox.[5]

In 2012, the rights for Conan movie sequels reverted from Millennium Films Inc to Conan Properties International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paradox Entertainment.[6]

The new company of CEO Fredrik Malmberg Cabinet Entertainment (through Cabinet Holdings) in 2015 acquired Paradox Entertainment Inc. and all subsidiaries and their properties, including the Robert E. Howard properties Conan, Kull, and Solomon Kane, as well as the original Target/Paradox properties Mutant Chronicles/Warzone, Kult, Chronopia, and Mutant. Purchase price for all shares in PEINC amounted to $7 million in cash.[7][8][9]

In September 2020, it was announced that Netflix will develop a new Conan TV series as a part of a larger deal involving Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler from Pathfinder Media[note 1] between Netflix and Conan Properties International, owned by Cabinet Entertainment, for the exclusive rights to the Conan library for the rights for live-action and animated films and TV shows.[10]

Other company connections

Cabinet Entertainment used to be publicly listed in Stockholm, Sweden. The company called Paradox Entertainment listed on OMX Nasdaq is now called Sensori AB and is dealing in medical supplies.[11] Specifically, Paradox Entertainment AB (the Swedish, listed, company) sold off all its operations to Paradox Entertainment Inc (its American subsidiary). The Aktiebolag (AB) acquired its new medical operations by buying Akloma Tinnitus AB and changing its name, while the Inc was purchased by its previous CEO Fredrik Malmberg through Cabinet.[12]

Paradox Interactive, based in Stockholm, is a completely separate entity, no longer a part of Paradox Entertainment.

RPG Licenses

Conan is licensed to Modiphius.[13] Kult is licensed to Helmgast.[14] Mutant is licensed to Free League.[15]

Filmography

Includes producer and executive producer credits for Cabinet CEO, Fredrik Malmberg.[16]

Notes
  1. No relation to Paizo's flagshop product, Pathfinder

References
  1. "Archived copy" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2001-05-15. Retrieved 2017-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2017-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-17. Retrieved 2017-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "9th Circ. Nixes Appeal Over 'Conan The Barbarian' Rights". Law360. 22 Oct 2013.
  5. Eriq, Eriq (2011-08-22). "'Conan the Barbarian' Lawsuit Seeks Character Rights". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
  6. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/06/05/266196/0/sv/Conan-film-rights-revert-to-Conan-Properties.html
  7. http://www.tabletopgamingnews.com/conan-property-of-cabinet-holdings-now/
  8. https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/23/idUSL5N0XK2M220150423
  9. http://movieweb.com/legend-conan-barbarian-movie-cinematic-universe/
  10. https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/conan-the-barbarian-netflix-series-development-1234787810/
  11. https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/01/08/800418/0/en/The-observation-status-of-Sensori-AB-previously-Paradox-Entertainment-AB-is-updated-6-16.html
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2017-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. https://www.modiphius.com/conan.html
  14. https://helmgast.se/meta/helmgast-ger-ut-kult
  15. http://frialigan.se/en/games/mutant-year-zero/
  16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-01-14. Retrieved 2017-02-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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