New Line Cinema (now a part of Warner Brothers) and the Tolkien Estate have reached a settlement in their legal battle over the Lord of the Rings films. This means the upcoming film adaptation of The Hobbit will not be axed on account of some monetary squabbling. The Tolkien Trust’a British charitable trust representing the […]
Season 9 of Smallville is on the way. It’s moving to Friday nights this year, and the pilot will premiere on September 25th. The folks at Kryptonsite have posted the preview trailer (which aired at Comic-Con) for the series on YouTube.
Blizzard has yet to confirm the rumors, but some details of the next World of Warcraft expansion are floating around the internet. Known as “Cataclysm,” from a Blizzard trademark filing, some details of the expansion have been found from “trusted sources,” some confirmed based off the contents of the latest Test Realm patch. Some highlights: […]
Extended Edition of Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone to Be Released – Warner Brothers has confirmed that an extended DVD edition of the first Harry Potter film is on the way. (One would hope that it contains more content than the minimal deleted scenes already found on the existing 2-disc release, in the form often […]
The release date for the much-awaited Wheel of Time book, The Gathering Storm, has been changed. Instead of being released in early November, it will come out two weeks early on October 27th in the US, UK, and Australia. The unabridged audio book will be released the same day. In other news, Scott Westerfeld’s new […]
Superior Saturday is the sixth book in the seven-part Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix. I started reading it a couple of years ago, after enjoying his higher-level Abhorsen series, in which Sabriel is the first installment. When I read Mr. Monday, the first in the Keys series, I thought it an interesting […]
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 […]
The latest Harry Potter film adaptation, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, just hit theaters today. The sixth to date, it does the book justice despite the usual complaints of things being cut-out. The movie starts with a bang, namely the destruction of the Millennium Bridge in London. A group of three Death Eaters, doing […]
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 […]
