The year is 2027, and the world has seemingly gone down the drain. The impending apocalypse has been prompted by the fact that, for an unknown reason, humankind has become one hundred percent infertile. No baby has been born in over 18 years, and the world is despairing in anarchy. Britain has sealed off its borders, and the ruthless totalitarian regime tries to keep the chaos in check with brute force. Immigrants have been declared illegal – they are rounded up and, in the best case, deported. Former political activist Theo (Clive Owen) one day finds himself thrust into the heart of this volatile climate, when his ex-wife and rebel leader Julien (Julianna Moore) seeks his help in order to lead to safety a young girl who harbours the hope of mankind: Kee is eight months pregnant, and she’s black and illegal.

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Warner Bros. has released ten brand new high-resolution images from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Amongst them are shots of Sirius Black, Voldemort, Dumbledore at the Ministry Hearing, Harry learning Occlumency, The Kiss, and more. They can be viewed here in our gallery. It is believed that the pictures are from scenes shown in the new teaser trailer that is currently playing in front of copies of Happy Feet in the United States.

Warner Bros. has confirmed that the teaser trailer will be accessible online on Monday (November 20), at 3pm EST on the official Happy Feet website. Warner is offering a ten second preview of that preview here (small), here (medium), here (large) and here (extra large) in Quicktime format. It includes a scene with Snape, and a glance at Harry and the DA.

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Yet another Eragon trailer has been released by Fox. Following the Japanese trailer, this Australian version has some brief additional footage of the hatchling Saphira and some new dialogue from Edward Speelers as Eragon. Click here to watch the video.

Eragon is the first film adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance book trilogy and is scheduled to hit cinemas this December. Directed by Stefen Fangmeier (visual effects supervisor on The Perfect Storm, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World & Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events), the film stars Edward Speleers in the title role, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Djimon Hounsou, Robert Carlyle and Sienna Guillory.

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After much derision from Bond fans after he was cast in the role of Her Majesty’s most famous secret agent, Daniel Craig and the team behind Casino Royale have confounded expectations by delivering the best opening day in the franchise’s history at the UK box office.

The movie sold £1.7 million ($3.2 million) worth of tickets, a 54 percent increase over comparable sales for the previous Bond film and first-day record-holder, 2002’s Die Another Day. The studio proudly added that two-thirds of all movie tickets sold in Britain were for Bond 21.

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With the promise of things to come, of next-generation graphics and gadgets, the gaming world has seemed to have forgotten what is most important, games. In 2006, only eight games have received an average score of 90% or higher according to gamerankings.com, compared to 22 in 2005. Though the focus and resources of Nintendo and Sony have been on their next-generation consoles, high-powered hardware and revolutionary gimmicks are only as good as the games developed to use them. It is the games, from the highly popular (Halo) to the heavily criticized (Advent Rising), which impact the industry and take gaming to another level of entertainment, of art.

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