Have a wonderful break everyone!

The Hobbit movie to be made

New Line Cinema and Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings movies, have just announced that there will be a film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

Yippee! :)

Real life 'Death Star'!

Cue the Imperial March folks, NASA found a real-life Death Star!

From the CBC.ca article:

"a black hole in a "death star galaxy" blast[s] a neighbouring galaxy with a deadly jet of radiation and energy."

Sounds like Alderaan is probably kaput already.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard purchased by Amazon

Amazon.com has purchased Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling's hand-written and illustrated (by Rowling herself) book entitled The Tales of Beedle the Bard. It was sold for charity at Sotheby's in London and Amazon paid (wait for it...) over $4 million for it!

Luckily for those of us who couldn't afford to pay millions of dollars for this one-of-a-kind book ("seven-of-a-kind" if you want to be technical about it), Amazon has posted pictures, a video, and a review of one of the five "wizarding fairy tales" in the book HERE.

Inkheart teaser trailer

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke has been made into a movie.

So many books being made into films lately!

Looks like I'll have to start avoiding the school roof

Find out what Harry Potter character you're like!

The Spiderwick Chronicles coming to a theatre near you

One of my favourite fantasy series, The Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi, has been made into a film starring Freddie Highmore and Mary Louise Parker. It's coming out in February and here's the trailer:



You can view the trailer and get some more information at the official movie website, cast information at the IMDb Spiderwick movie page, and check out the series website as well.