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FANTASTIC looking new posters for The Prestige and Perfume. And an unusual, but less effective, teaser poster for Blood Diamond.
New Pan's Labyrinth trailer (#2) at IGN. The fantasy-horror movie is Mexico's submission for Best Foreign Film at the next year's Academy Awards. Twitch has several reviews.
Trailer for high school drama Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank, Imelda Staunton, Patrick Dempsey, and Scott Glenn. [imdb]
Jamie Bell (Billy Elliot, The Chumscrubber) has grown into quite a looker. See photos of him, as well as Jesse Bradford and Paul Walker, at the Flags of Our Fathers premiere. What do you say? Perfect young Remus Lupin, I think. (JustJared)
Fantasy/sci-fi writer Jeff VanderMeer has joined the team at Blog of a Bookslut as their new comic book columnist. His first column looks at Alan Moore's Lost Girls. The site also has an interview with Neil Gaiman. His new book is Fragile Things.
Indian-born Kiran Desai last night became the youngest woman to win the Man Booker Prize, for her novel The Inheritance of Lost. (Guardian)
Google yesterday bought up video-sharing site YouTube for $1.65bn. From the USA Today feature article on the acquisition: "Google did, in fact, promise to leave YouTube alone -- it will keep all its employees, separate headquarters, its own brand. Right now, for instance, a search on Google Video will not find a video that's on YouTube. That will change."