A new teaser-like image based on a film still from His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass has surfaced at BridgeToTheStars.net. It is only the second image directly from the film that has been published so far and like the first it depicts Mrs. Coulter (Nicole Kidman) and Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards). The difference is that this new shot’s perspective offers the first proper look at the movie’s young central character, showing Lyra from the front. You can view the new image in our gallery by following this link.
Dakota Blue Richards had been chosen from over 10′000 contestants in an open casting audition, and no photos of her whatsoever were publically released until now, almost two months into the shooting of the film at Shepperton Studios and other assorted locations in the UK.
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Roger Corman, the prolific American producer with over 370 low-budget B-movies and TV projects under his belt is set to make Space 3001, a $20 million sci-fi action picture with John Davison says 
Jagshemash! In the past few months leading up to the release of shock comic Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat, there has been a steadily-rising amount of hype for the film. Let me just state for the record that I was first in line, having long been an enormous fan of HBO’s “Da Ali G. Show” where Borat originated (amongst two other characters played by Cohen.) This is not the first feature film to spin-off from the TV series; Cohen brought his other persona, Ali G., to the big screen a few years back in Ali G.: InDaHouse. Despite the fact that InDaHouse did not work for me (due almost completely to the fact that it was scripted and thus took all the magic out of Cohen’s work,) I had a very good feeling about Borat.
I prefer Obama to McCain. Now, McCain’s better than average for a Republican. And though his ads are intellectually offensive, he’s just bowing to his campaign masters and would calm down and be more sane once in office and not campaigning. But I have a few concerns with McCain on foreign policy. He’s not a full-fledged Neocon. That’s good. He opposed Reagan on Lebanon. Good. He was critical of Bush’s initial strategy in Iraq. That’s good. But there’s a problem. He thinks the Vietnam war was winnable and that the US shouldn’t have withdrawn. He’s also eager to spread democracy with force. This just isn’t a good set of beliefs for inheriting Iraq.