A new Eragon poster has hit the net courtesy of Fox, via the Inheritance Trilogy website Shurtugal.  The poster depicts the first close-up image of the dragon Saphira, ridden in the film by the title character. Eragon is set in the land of Alagaësia and follows the story of a young boy who discovers a polished blue stone. Thinking that he will be able to sell it to buy food for his family, he takes the stone home, only to discover that it is in fact an egg from which a dragon is hatched. With his new reptilian companion, the young Eragon is thrust into a world of magic and adventure.

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Mary-Louise Parker, Nick Nolte, Martin Short and Joan Plowright are currently in talks to star in the first big budget movie adaptation of the Spiderwick Chronicles.

Spiderwick is a popular series of illustrated children’s fantasy books written by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. The story takes place in New England and revolves around the adventures of Nine-year-old twins Simon and Jared and their older sister Mallory who have moved to the decrepit Spiderwick Estate. There they discover a book called ‘Arthur Spiderwick’s field guide to Faeries’, and quickly realize that the entire estate is overrun with them.

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TheForce.net have just received a translation of a Star Wars 30th Anniversary lego booklet originally posted on Rebelscum which confirms that their will be a new set of DVDs next year. The translated text reads as follows-

“STAR WARS celebrates it 30th anniversary !

The LEGO Star Wars line still sells well - even in years without a movie. In 2005, the LEGO Star Wars assortment was about 70 % of the total revenue of all Star Wars licences in central europe. In April 2006, LEGO Star Wars was about 7,8% of the total revenue of LEGO Central Europe

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