The Golden Compass Film site is now online. Gorgeous, atmospheric, magical music, and a great glimpse at the Alethiometer. How thrilling! Only a year to wait…

How did I miss this?  A movie based on Annette Curtis Klause’s novel Blood and Chocolate is coming out in January!  The poster looks great!  You can click here for a larger image.  Hopefully they do Klause’s book justice.  I completely adored her Silver Kiss which would also make a great film.  Her newer book, Freaks: Alive, on the Inside is still on my list of books to read. 

The Book Standard is expanding its Book Video Awards to include a Teen Edition this year.  Working with Random House, the Teen Book Video Awards will feature films of How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.  The videos will be online starting November 29th. 

WIth Thesps Tell Tale of Desperaux, Comingsoon.net announces the voice actors for the upcoming CGI movie of Tale of Desperaux. And look at the talent! Kevin Kline, Dustin Hoffman, Christopher Lloyd, Tracey Ullman and more! The site offers additional details on the production.

ComingSoon.net has the news that Walden Media has teamed up with American Girl to bring the Kit books to the big screen. American Girl recently did TV films of two of their other titles, and they were remarkably watchable and well done. Let’s hope that they continue that trend with their first big screen film.

The upcoming Charlotte’s Web Movie has a sweet site where you can visit the Zuckerman farm and view a trailer of the movie. From the trailer it looks like they have changed a lot of the story and added slapstick humor, but I have hope that in the end they have retained the sweetness of the original. Let’s all hope!

Arthur and the Minimoys will be released in film version this Christmas. The website offers a trailer you can view online, information on the main characters, a glimpse at the storyline, and looks at the amazing animation that captures the land of the Minimoys. This is certainly worth a look.

Hope you weren’t holding your breath, because the Second Narnia movie is postponed until summer 2008. I admit that when I finally saw the first in the series, I was pleasantly surprised. OK, so as the softy I am, I teared up when Aslan appeared. I’m such an easy touch. 🙂

Yahoo!  has the news that Nickelodeon Movies is going to make movies from The Five Ancestors series, wirtten by Jeff Stone.  Stone has planned seven books in the series, and right now the movie deal is for two films.