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Cabinet Entertainment, previously known as Paradox Entertainment, is a company dealing in
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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 Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (m ...
and CEO of Paradox Entertainment. Some of its most famous holdings are trademarks and certain rights related to
Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including '' Conan the Barbarian'' and '' Conan the Destroyer'') ...
, 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,
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,
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, Warzone, Kult, and Chronopia. Former licences include
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History

Paradox Entertainment started out in 1999, created from the bankrupted
Target Games Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role-playing games active from 1980 until the year 1999 when they went into bankruptcy proceedings. Until the mid-1990s they published their Swedish roleplaying games under the brand name Äventyrsspel (m ...
(known at that time as "Target Games Interactive"), a Swedish role-playing games company. In 2004, the company moved its business to Los Angeles. At this time, the Stockholm operation was spun off into
Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactive AB is a video game publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company started out as the video game division of Target Games and then Paradox Entertainment (now Cabinet Entertainment) before being spun out into an independen ...
. 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 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. In 2012, rights for Conan movie sequels reverted from Millennium Films Inc. to Conan Properties International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paradox Entertainment. In 2015, Cabinet Entertainment, a new company of CEO (through Cabinet Holdings), 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. The purchase price for all shares in PEINC amounted to $7 million in cash. In April 2018, Cabinet joined with video game publisher
Funcom Funcom Oslo AS (, formerly Funcom Productions AS) is a Norwegian video game developer that specializes in online games. It is best known for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) titles '' Conan Exiles'', '' Age of Conan'', ...
to set up Heroic Signatures, an outfit intended to develop Cabinet's intellectual properties into video games. In September 2020, it was announced that
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will develop a new Conan TV series as a part of a larger deal involving Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler from Pathfinder Media between Netflix and Conan Properties International, owned by Cabinet Entertainment, for the exclusive rights to their Conan library for the rights for live-action and animated films and TV shows. In September 2021, Funcom acquired Cabinet Group, the parent company to Cabinet Entertainment. Funcom, which had already developed and published games based on intellectual properties under license from Cabinet, planned to continue to expand on these properties with the acquisition. Cabinet founder Fredrik Malmberg will become president of Heroic Signatures.


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, until it entered into liquidation on 31 August 2020. 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.
Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactive AB is a video game publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company started out as the video game division of Target Games and then Paradox Entertainment (now Cabinet Entertainment) before being spun out into an independen ...
, based in Stockholm, is a completely separate entity, no longer a part of Paradox Entertainment.


RPG licenses

Conan is licensed to Modiphius. Kult is licensed to Helmgast. Mutant is licensed to Free League.


Filmography

''Includes producer and executive producer credits for Cabinet CEO, Fredrik Malmberg.'' * '' Mutant Chronicle'' (2008) * '' Solomon Kane'' (2009) * ''
Conan the Barbarian Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, films (including '' Conan the Barbarian'' and '' Conan the Destroyer'') ...
'' (2011) * '' Setup'' (2011) * ''
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'' (2012) * '' Fire with Fire'' (2012) * ''
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External links


Heroic Signatures official website
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