A slew of new projects based on Robert Jordan’s “The Wheel of Time” fantasy novels are in the works from IP owner iwot Studios and “Arcane” producer and Riot Games’ “League of Legends” vet Thomas Vu.

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have been friends and collaborators since the mid-1990s, and it's impossible to overstate their impact as a comedic duo both in their native Britain and here in the U.S. When ...