Bloomsbury Publishing (BMY)

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475.00p
   
  • Change Today:
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  • 52 Week High: 754.00p
  • 52 Week Low: 469.50p
  • Currency: UK Pounds
  • Shares Issued: 81.61m
  • Volume: 166,926
  • Market Cap: £387.64m
  • RiskGrade: 201
  • Beta: 0.00

Bestselling Bloomsbury author lands major Hollywood deal

By Abigail Townsend

Date: Wednesday 08 Oct 2025

LONDON (ShareCast) - (Sharecast News) - Walt Disney Studios has snapped up the rights to author Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures series of children's books, her publisher Bloomsbury Publishing confirmed on Wednesday.
Disney has secured the theatrical film and ancillary rights to the bestselling fantasy book series, with the first two books to be adapted by the author into feature film screenplays.

Financial details were not disclosed.

The Harry Potter publisher released the first Impossible Creatures book in 2023, and it quickly became a bestseller.

The first two books of the five-book series - Impossible Creatures and its sequel, The Poisoned King - have now sold jointly over 1 million copies in 37 territories.

Bloomsbury holds the print, ebook and audio rights to series in the UK, Europe and Commonwealth.

Bloomsbury has published Rundell, who also writes non-fiction for adults, since 2015.

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BMY Market Data

Currency UK Pounds
Share Price 475.00p
Change Today -7.00p
% Change -1.45 %
52 Week High 754.00p
52 Week Low 469.50p
Volume 166,926
Shares Issued 81.61m
Market Cap £387.64m
Beta 0.00
RiskGrade 201

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Price Trend
42.99% below the market average42.99% below the market average42.99% below the market average42.99% below the market average42.99% below the market average
19.05% below the sector average19.05% below the sector average19.05% below the sector average19.05% below the sector average19.05% below the sector average
Income
31.56% above the market average31.56% above the market average31.56% above the market average31.56% above the market average31.56% above the market average
15.79% above the sector average15.79% above the sector average15.79% above the sector average15.79% above the sector average15.79% above the sector average
Growth
36.77% above the market average36.77% above the market average36.77% above the market average36.77% above the market average36.77% above the market average
24.32% above the sector average24.32% above the sector average24.32% above the sector average24.32% above the sector average24.32% above the sector average

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