New Line Cinema Release Golden Compass Images

New Line Cinema have released a batch of new Golden Compass Images, below is a small selection, please view them all over at hisdarkmaterials.org

Golden Compass Website Online

Check out the excellent new Golden Compass website here

Lots of sneak peek images, interactive alethiometer and details on the film.

Very exciting and very cool.

This from hisdarkmaterials.org

New Line Cinema has launched the official website for The Golden Compass. The website features sections on cast and crew, the alethiometer and story summaries. Fans can also catch more visualization art, studio stills and the long-awaited front photographs of Dakota Blue Richards.

The casting list points to the renaming of the armoured bear king Iofur Raknison (voiced by Ian McShane) to the name "Ragnar Sturlusson."

You can unlock concept art by entering certain combinations into the alethiometer on the website. Currently two sets are known, Candle, Globe, Compass and Cauldron (Crucible), Lightning, Horse.

New Lyra and Mrs Coulter Picture appears on IMDB

A new picture of Dakota Blue Richards and Nicole Kidman has appeared on IMDB.com. It appears to be a picture from a promotional article that has been sent to various cinemas.

Click here for the original article & image, thanks to HisDarkMaterials.org

First Lyra Pic Revealed

The first official picture of the actress playing Lyra in the film version of Northern Lights has been released by the film makers.

Alongside 12-year-old Dakota Blue Richards, from Sussex, is the evil Mrs Coulter played by Nicole Kidman.

Dakota won the part of Lyra after going to an open casting held in Cambridge earlier this year.

She's such a big fan of the books that she also went to see the stage version at the National Theatre.

Thanks to BBC Newsround

Philip Pullman talks about his set visit

Author Philip Pullman has spoken on his official site about his visit to the set of the movie based on his book "The Golden Compass", the first in the "His Dark Materials" series.

"The set was constructed inside a vast sound stage, a building bigger than many aircraft hangars, and going all the way around the inside walls, from floor to distant ceiling, there was a truly enormous canvas painted with an Arctic panorama of icy mountains under a dark sky.

Read more over at darkhorizons

His Dark Materials Master Toy License Announced

Cards inc / Master Replicas have picked up the rights to make toys on the upcoming movie based on the first novel in Philip Pullman's bestselling His Dark Materials trilogy.

Read the press release here