The teaser trailer for Tim Burton’s upcoming Alice in Wonderland film has finally been released, during ComicCon. It’s short, doesn’t give much away, but it has people talkin’ already. You can view the trailer on YouTube. The film is set for a release of March 5, 2010. Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Anne […]
Hobbits are building their homes in New Zealand. Well, no, but the Hobbiton set from the Lord of the Rings movies is being set back up for the upcoming prequel, The Hobbit. The set was stripped down after the completion of the trilogy, save for the frames of the 17 Hobbit holes. But now fruit […]
Want to see what the music for the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince sounds like? You can listen to the movie’s soundtrack, in it’s entirety, on Yahoo Music (for now). There are twenty-eight tracks, with some good music in them. Nicholas Hooper has produced another great Harry Potter score. You can also pre-order […]
The Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince videogame, by Electronic Arts, has been released. The game is available for the major consoles, including the Wii, or as a PC/Mac combo DVD-ROM. More on Ride Inside Hogwarts Castle at Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park Matt Lewis On Missing the St. Mungo Scene and More […]
Book two of T. A. Barron’s latest series dealing with Merlin is to be released this September. Merlin’s Dragon: Doomraga’s Revenge is set somewhere between the Lost Years of Merlin and the Great Tree of Avalon series. No longer just an unknown little lizard, Basil is now as big as a mountain—and the most powerful […]
The Leaky Cauldron is reporting that the British Board of Film Classification (similar to the MPAA in the United States) has updated their website to list the running time and rating for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The running time is listed as “153m 19s,” with a content rating of “12A.” (The MPAA lists […]
Bloomsbury Publishing is staving-off plagiarism charges from the estate of one Adrian Jacobs, a little-known supposed fantasy author who created The Adventures of Willy the Wizard No. 1 Livid Land, a 1987 novella of 36 pages which had a very limited distribution. The suit claims that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire infringes upon […]
The Leaky Cauldron is reporting that a LEGO Harry Potter video game is confirmed to be in the works, and Warner Brothers has released a press release on the subject. LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 will give gamers the chance to experience the magic and adventure of Harry Potter in a uniquely LEGO way. Playing […]
The manuscript for Lord Sunday, the final book in the seven-part The Keys to the Kingdom series, by Garth Nix, has been delivered to the publisher (Scholastic Press). Nix recently updated his website to reflect this. There is no final publication date as of yet, though it “right now looks likely to be early-ish in […]
The BBC’s Merlin series, which follows the story of a young Merlin under the rule of king Uther Pendragon, will be airing in the United States on NBC starting June 21, 2009 (Sunday night). Oft-described as the United Kingdom’s Smallville, the program has gained quite a following during its first season. The show is set […]
