Fans anxiously waiting for news can now look forward to screening the recent film adaptation of Philip Pullman’s The Butterfly Tattoo. The winner of several awards at film festivals in both America and Europe will be distributed by indie distributors ITN and Cinema Epoch to cinemas and on DVD in the American box office in 2009. ITN has also licensed the film for distribution in Russia, the Middle East, and Benelux, and will further present the film at festivals to other international distributors. Release dates to follow. (can’t wait!)
For more information, visit the film’s official website or Facebook fanpage.
ScrollMotion, a mobile phone application developer company, has reached a deal with major publishers to allow it to deliver e-books to your iPhone. As random house were one of the publishers involved in the deal, the His Dark Materials trilogy will be available for download. Each book downloaded is saved on the phone as a separate application and will keep the same page numbering as the original book, while still allowing the user easy navigation with zooming and scrolling. See the whole story at wired.com
Online magazine Pulp Online features a highly positive review of budget movie ‘The Butterfly Tattoo’. The reviewer remarks that if and when the film gains general release, he hopes to ‘see it again and again’. Read it in full here.
The stage adaptation of Philip Pullman’s ‘The Scarecrow and his Servant’ will be opening on December 10th at the Southwark Playhouse, and to mark the occasion, the BBC is giving people the opportunity to submit questions which will be put to Pullman. You can submit questions here.
Edit: You can now read the published questions and answers here.
The Guardian features a video clip of Philip Pullman reading from Milton’s Paradise Lost, a text that he has acknowledged to have had a strong influence on his writing of His Dark Materials. You can watch the clip here.
