The first trailer for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is now online, featuring a few clips from the huge battle at Hogwarts, as well as the Gringots break-in. Apparently the final fight between Harry and Voldemort has been…embellished a bit. The Leaky Cauldron, as usual, has links to high-quality QuickTime, Windows Media, […]
Garth Nix is currently writing Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, the much-awaited sequel to the Old Kingdom Trilogy (first book: Sabriel). He is currently estimating a 2013 release date. I’m writing CLARIEL: THE LOST ABHORSEN at the moment. It is set about 300 years before the events of SABRIEL, in an extremely settled era of the […]
Syfy has finally released the air dates for the season premiers of Warehouse 13 and Eureka. Both will air on July 11, 2011. Warehouse 13 is entering it’s third season, and Eureka will be continuing its fourth. (Eureka has a strange split-season thing going on, where Syfy airs half a season and then waits several […]
Information about Brandon Sanderson’s new Mistborn novel are starting to surface. The Alloy of Law, set 300 years after the Mistborn trilogy, is set in a world transforming from a medieval-style setting to something more along the lines of the 1800s. Electric lighting and railroads have come to Scadrial, but the Allomancers and Feruchemists haven’t […]
A large batch of Discworld news has just surfaced online. Sir Terry Pratchett is not only working on a new book, but has made some more movie deals. Snuff, currently estimated to be released this October, will be a new Discworld novel featuring Commander Vimes as the protagonist. It sounds like an early draft has […]
ComingSoon.net is reporting that the sequel to the 2009 Sherlock Holmes film starring Robert Downey Jr. will be called Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and will feature Stephen Fry as Sherlock’s brother, Mycroft Holmes. Downey returns as the title character, as does Jude Law for Dr. Watson. Professor Moriarty will be the primary villain. […]
In one fell swoop, Warner Brothers announced several big news items about the third Batman film to be written and directed by Christopher Nolan. The upcoming film will be called The Dark Knight Rises, and will feature Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle (Catwoman’s alter ego) and Tom Hardy as Bane. Christian Bale will return as […]
The film adaptation of T. A. Barron’s The Lost Years of Merlin, which has been in “Development Hell” for a few years now has jumped ship from Paramount and moved to Warner Brothers, who is fast becoming a major power in the fantasy film and video game industry. Big news! The Merlin movie project has […]
The trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is now online. Loosely based on Tim Powers’ novel One Stranger Tides, the film continues the story of Jack Sparrow and Barbossa…sans Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightly. Oh, and Blackbeard (played by Ian McShane) will be in it as well. Interestingly, On Stranger Tides was […]
The Wertzone is reporting that Brandon Sanderson will soon be revisiting his Mistborn series. Sanderson has lately been working on a Mistborn novella as a side project, which is currently 60,000 words and may end up being longer by the time it is finished. Tor will be publishing it in 2011. If that isn’t enough […]
