From hisdarkmaterials.org: Today New Line launced the first teaser trailer for The Golden Compass. This trailer will also be shown in cinemas together with Pirates of the Caribbean 3. It is interesting to note that various scenes from the trailer were also shown at the (Cannes Film Festival) press screening. [More]

Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Check out some TV on DVD goodies like ‘Mythbusters: Collection 1’, ‘Oc: Complete Fourth Season’ & ‘Scrubs – The Complete Fifth Season’. There are a few compilations out tomorrow including; ‘War Giftset’ & ‘The Gary Cooper Giftset’. This week John Wayne would have turned 100 years old, to celebrate the studios are releasing a slew of his films on DVD sets and single set DVDs, ‘The John Wayne Adventure Collection’, ‘The John Wayne Century Collection’, ‘The John Wayne Collection’, ‘The John Wayne Film Collection’ & ‘The John Wayne Western Collection’. The big releases of the week are ‘Apocalypto’ & ‘Epic Movie’. The HD DVD and Blu-ray crowd are getting treated this week with ‘Pirates of the Caribbean I & II’, ‘Mission: Impossible I & II’, ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’, ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ and ‘The Ultimate Matrix Collection’ all getting the High Def treatment. Personally I’m interested in ‘The Third Man – Criterion Collection (2-Disc Edition)’ & ‘Afro Samurai (Director’s Cut)’! Check out the whole list here! [More]

Ian Collier, Tolkien Society Publicity sends this along: There are photos online from Saturday at Sarehole Mill, you can find them here! [More]

Rachel from WETA writes: Today Weta Limited opened the pre-ordering for the Goliathon 83 Raygun from the Weta Originals range to VIP members. They also announced that members of the public could pre-order this piece seven days from now (25 May). [More]