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.
Some of its most famous holdings are trademarks and certain rights related to Conan the Barbarian, a character created by pulp author Robert E. Howard and expanded upon by many other authors over the years. Cabinet owns these rights through Conan Properties International, a wholly owned subsidiary. 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"), a 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.[2]
Paradox Entertainment claims that the company owns the rights to all of Robert E. Howard's stories and characters.
On August 21, 2011, the day the 2011 film Conan the Barbarian opened, SLMI (Stan Lee Media Inc.) unsuccessfully sued[3] 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.[4]
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 dealt in medical supplies,[13] until it entered into liquidation on 31 August 2020.[14] Specifically, Paradox Entertainment AB (the Swedish, listed, company) sold off all its operations to Paradox Entertainment Inc. (its American subsidiary). The Swedish company acquired its new medical operations by buying Akloma Tinnitus AB and changing its name, while the American company was purchased by its previous CEO Fredrik Malmberg through Cabinet.[15]
Paradox Interactive, based in Stockholm, is a completely separate entity, no longer a part of Paradox Entertainment.
RPG licenses
Conan is licensed to Modiphius.[16]
Filmography
Includes producer and executive producer credits for Cabinet CEO, Fredrik Malmberg.[19]
- Mutant Chronicles (2008)
- Solomon Kane (2009)
- Conan the Barbarian (2011)
- Setup (2011)
- Freelancers (2012)
- Fire with Fire (2012)
- Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2012)
- Reasonable Doubt (2014)
- The Frozen Ground (2013)
- Reclaim (2014)
External links
References
- Pressmeddelande Stockholm retrieved 2017-01-26^
- Our history | Paradox Interactive - Global Games Publisher retrieved 2017-01-26^
- 9th Circ. Nixes Appeal Over 'Conan The Barbarian' Rights Law360, 22 October 2013^