It has been confirmed that the upcoming film adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit will be split into two films, set to be released December 2011 and 2012. There have long been rumors that there would be a second film bridging the sixty years between The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring, but the filmmakers […]
Book three in the Looking Glass Wars series will be released on October 15, 2009. It will be titled The Looking Glass Wars: ArchEnemy. From the looks of things, Amazon put the page up fairly recently, and not many sites reporting the announcement yet. No cover art is listed yet, and there are no synopses […]
Fantasy Fan has some images up from the soon-to-be-released Wheel of Time graphic novel. The cover, and the first few pages from “The Wheel of Time #0: Dragonmount.” The cover depicts Lews Therin Telemon from the opening of The Eye of the World, and the pages after show the main characters in Emonds Field, listening […]
Author T. A. Barron recently sent out his spring newsletter, and a few of major items are worth noting, in addition to the usual news of paperpacks, awards, and international releases. The second book in the Merlin’s Dragon trilogy (which takes place after the Lost Years of Merlin) will be published in September 2009. It […]
Dan Radcliffe will not be voicing his character in the upcoming Half-Blood Prince videogame, due to conflicting arrangements. His official voice double will cover for him. [More at The Leaky Cauldron] Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Hands-on Preview Actor Matthew Lewis, portrayer of Neville Longbottom in the Potter films, is now using Twitter. He […]
If you’ve heard much about the Wheel of Time series, then you probably know that the final book in the series has been in the works for some time by Brandon Sanderson, the author chosen to continue Robert Jordan’s work after he died. The final book, which is supposed to be released sometime this Fall, […]
ABC’s Legend of the Seeker, a TV show based on Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth series, mainly the first book at the moment, has been cleared for a second season, and will continue to be syndicated across multiple networks. The show has been fairly successful so far, despite its relatively high production costs. Distributors are […]
The New Zealand Geographic Board is considering the renaming of a stretch of river to “Anduin Reach,” after the Great River of Wilderland in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring. I have put forward a Naming Proposal to the NZ Geographic Board to name a stretch of the Upper Waiau River between Lakes Manapouri […]
Smallville returns tomorrow, after the latest multi-week break, with a new and intriguing episode. The promo looks promising, with two opening lines that should mean a lot to anybody who has watched the season so far, CLARK: “Lois, I want you to tell my story… I’m the Red-Blue Blur.” LOIS: “I guess I should stop […]
Back in December, Walden Media’s partership with Disney for the Narnia franchise fell apart. Variety.com reports that the third Narnia film, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, will be released on December 10, 2010, through a new partnership with Twentieth Century Fox. This will no doubt be a relief to many Narnia fans, after the uncertainty […]
