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Screenshot: Netflix Bringing a beloved book series to the screen is the biggest thing in television right now, especially with genre fiction. But it can be challenging to walk the line of pleasing both longtime fans and brand new viewers, to bring the best of the source material to life in a new format while also allowing it to be fresh and new. Shadow and Bone, based on Leigh Bardugo’s Grisha Trilogy as well as the other stories set in the universe of a fantasy alt-Russia, manages to do this quite well, and to be visually beautiful to boot, although it makes a few missteps along the way.

ONTD Original: Five Reasons to watch Shadow & Bone Shadow & Bones is the latest Netflix YA book adaptation that was released worldwide on the 23rd of this month. This is how I described it to my sister word for word in the text message I sent her on the weekend using Harry Potter as a comparison: “It’s set in like a fantasy Russia. There's this big black scary thing in the middle of the country called "The Fold" where it’s like dementor paradise. There's a bunch of people called "Grisha" aka Wizards with powers. And they're trying to get rid of it, but they need a person called a Sun S...

The modern young adult boom can trace its roots back to the success of the Harry Potter adaptations at Warner Bros. Collectively, the eight films in the original series grossed $7.7B, briefly becoming the highest-grossing film franchise in the world. Of course, the box office was the tip of the iceberg. There are the television rights, merchandising, and theme park options to consider. Estimates place the value of the Harry Potter multimedia empire at around $25B. Naturally, every other studio in Hollywood wanted a piece of that. Production companies eagerly snatched up the film and televis...

What Is the Shadow Fold in Netflix's‘Shadow and Bone’? ELLE 2 hrs ago Replay Video Shadow and Bone below. No fantasy series is complete without some physical manifestation of Bad™. For Lord of the Rings, it was the One Ring (or perhaps the Eye of Sauron, depending on which LOTR enthusiast you’re asking). For Game of Thrones, it was the White Walkers. For Shadow and Bone, is no different: For this particular romp, evil finds itself in the form of a literal curtain of darkness. In Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse novels—and the show that grew from its source material—this pitch-...

(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Series: Shadow and Bone Where You Can Stream It: Netflix The Pitch: Set in a war-torn fantasy world where people, called Grisha, have the magical ability to manipulate matter, young orphan […]