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 book, [...]
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 concept; [...]
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 Hathaway, Stephen [...]
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 trees are [...]
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 the [...]
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 CD [...]
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 as Neville [...]
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 dragon [...]
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 the [...]