It’s pretty impossible to miss the release date for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, (Less than 38 chapters! Already on the best seller list!) but did you know that they’ve released two stills from the Goblet of Fire movie? Or that “harry potter” is the 8th most popular Google search in Brazil and Finland?
“Kingdom of Heaven” trailer online!
The “Kingdom of Heaven” trailer is now available online!
Chainmail. Big swords. Liam Neeson. And some guy called Orlando Bloom (who will apparently be wearing a chest-hair wig — I couldn’t make that up if I tried).
What’s not to love?
Two Thousand and Four
Lots of new stuff at starwars.com. Chiefly, their Best of 2004 roundup covers all the major stuff for the year.
What’s your choice for the top SW event or announcement of 2004?
Dioramas and Costumes
It just keeps coming… Tuesday, we got the annoucement of the Diorama Builders’ room, a collaborative effort organized by Frank D’Iorio, will be building a Death Star. It looks like everyone will be welcome to participate.
Today, it’s the Costume events, sure to be of interest to CJers. Contest guidelines and registration forms will be avaliable in January.
Random Strangeness
Here are some random URLs for fun. Mostly offensive fun.
This piece from cnn.com answers the musical question and answer, “Bad sex? You’re soaking in it!”
Here, you can experience the classic movie It’s A Wonderful Life being reenacted in thirty seconds by cartoon bunnies. No, really.
And here, Foamy, the extremely foul-mouthed squirrel from the online cartoon series Neurotically Yours, goes off on an extremly foul-mouthed squirrel diatribe about the true meaning of Christmas.
A little present for the Wantons
Those nice people filming The Island (no official site…yet) have released their first publicity still.
Here’s a look at Ewan McGregor with co-star Scarlett Johansson courtesy of ComingSoon.net.
Can you stand to wait that long?
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be released on July 16th.
That would be 207 days from this post.
4968 hours.
298080 minutes.
17884800 seconds.
::sigh:: I guess we’ll just have to hold ourselves over with Star Wars Episode 3. That’s only 149 days away.
Fan Organizations at CIII
The official site has posted which fan groups will be featured in the Fan Fair Exhibit Hall. There are several organizations familiar to CJ members in the lineup, like The 501st, Chicago Force and the Indy Knights. The fan groups will be recruiting, passing out swag, and spreading the word about their respective organizations.
HP6 at the publisher’s
J.K Rowling is finished with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and they’ll be annoucing the exact publication date with 24 hours. The Daily Snitch has a screenshot of the annoucement from jkrowkling.com.
I’m guessing March, always a big time for hardcovers.
The saga in pixels
Star Wars: A Video Games Saga is an overview of GFFA electronic games from the Golden Age to the latest release.