You can catch the fist ten minutes of National Treasure on AOL Moviefone today. The film stars Sean Bean among others, seems like mix of ‘The Rock’ and ‘Tomb Raider’, it is due out on November 25th. [More]

From: DarkHorizons (via USA Today) The Oscars are about four months away, yet already there’s a lot of talk about which films will be viable contenders. Now, USA Today scribe Scott Bowles is the first major critic to voice his early picks for which movies, actors and directors he thinks will be the front runners for the big awards shows:

BEST ACTRESS:
Annette Bening (“Being Julia”), Imelda Staunton (“Vera Drake”), Audrey Tautou (“A Very Long Engagement”), Julia Roberts (“Closer”), Kate Winslet (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Cate Blanchett (“The Life Aquatic”)

Today is Howard Shore’s Birthday! Howard was born on October 18th, 1946 in Toronto, Canada. That makes him 58 today! Happy Birthday Howard!

Premiere Magazine Features Viggo's Photos Ringer Spy Roheryn sends along these scans from the latest issue of Premiere Magazine. It features some great candid images from behind-the-scenes of LOTR, all taken by photograhper extraordinaire Viggo Mortensen. [More]

Astin Book Tour Images Emma, PippinSkywalker, bluelily17 & Naomi all send along great images and reports from various Sean Astin booksigning events in the north east last week. Take a look! [More]

The folks behind Ring*Con 2004 found a very good replacement for John Noble (who had to cancel due to filming commitments): none other then Bernard Hill! So far people from over 25 countries have signed up to attend the convention in Bonn, Germany so if you haven’t already, are in the neighbourhood and don’t have anything else to do Halloween-weekend come join us! [Ring*Con.de]