Frankel has 'Magyk' up sleeve

July 14, 2009 Magyk, which the studio hopes could launch the next fantasy franchise. The move comes as Warners releases the latest in its Harry Potter movies, "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Based on the popular seven-volume children's books by U.K. author Angie Sage, the series revolves around two babies who are switched at birth -- one a boy who discovers his birthright as the seventh son of a seventh son and is destined to become a powerful wizard, the other a girl who is fated to become a princess.

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