The promotional blitz for Babylon 5: The Lost Tales has begun ahead of its July 24th release date, and fans of the series will appreciate some of the material that’s now making the rounds. We’ve gathered links from far and wide to share with the fans, and you can read our reviews of B5’s pilot and first season if you’re wondering about the show but just aren’t quite sure about it.

One of Amazon’s deals for today is the complete set of all Buffy seasons at 51% off, making it just under 100 dollars. Now that’s what I call a bargain.

Nippon 2007, site for this year’s ... has announced that the final ballot was incorrectly reported due to technical errors. Specifically, in the Dramatic Presentation (Long Form) category, it appears that Pan’s Labyrinth should be on the list while Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest should be removed.

Our lengthy list of all the nominees, including a bevy of useful links, has been updated accordingly.

Via Making Light, the nominees for the Hugo Awards have been published. There’s a lot of interesting titles on the list, which we’ve linkified extensively for the benefit of the curious.

A “sizzle trailer”—featuring partially-completed effects, and in some cases very rough test imagery, aimed at international exhibitors and distributors—has shown up online for the filmed adaption of Phillip Pullman‘s much-praised young adult fantasy novel, The Golden Compass. It looks like a lush realization of the novel’s alternate world.

The trailer to the forthcoming fantasy film Stardust, based on Neil Gaiman’s and Charles Vess’s award-winning illustrated novel, has been placed online. With an amazing cast featuring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfieffer, Robert De Niro Starring Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfieffer, Sienna Miller, Peter O’Toole, and more, it looks as gorgeous as Vess’s vision of this tale of the mundane world brushing shoulders with Faerie.

Greg Rucka’s excellent and rather unique crime thriller set in a scientific research station in Antarctica following a murder, Whiteout seems to be full-speed ahead for a movie adaption.

Via Conlan Press, which has fought on behalf of Peter S. Beagle over monies he feels are owed him from The Last Unicorn animated film, we learn that a 25th anniversary DVD edition is being made available with a number of extras. As part of a special deal cut with the producers of the DVD, Conlan Press is selling the DVDs from its own site, including copies with personalized autographs from Mr. Beagle. More than half of the proceeds from the DVD sold by Conlan Press will go directly to Mr. Beagle, whereas he’ll not profit a penny from DVDs sold via other outlets while the dispute continues.

I remember the cartoon quite fondly as one of the most beautiful of the Rankin-Bass animated productions, perhaps due to the fact that much of the work was done by Japanese animators who would move on to become the core of the great Studio Ghibli, and it featured a top-notch voice acting crew (Mia Farrow, Christopher Lee, Jeff Bridges, Alan Arkin, and others). You can see the theatrical trailer for it here.

The book is excellent as well.

The Sci-Fi Channel has released a list of in-development programs, and a very interesting item appears therein:

Guy Gavriel Kay has announced that his novel, The Last Light of the Sun, has been optioned and that he is set to adapt the screenplay himself. This is another Hollywood development project for Kay, whose The Lions of Al-Rassan has been in development at Warner Brothers with Ed Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai, and other films) attached to direct.

Big news today in the fantasy world, as it’s revealed that newcomer fantasy writer Naomi Novik has had her debut series, Temeraire (which artfully combines talking dragons with the Napoleonic wars), optioned by Peter Jackson. An interview at Ain’t It Cool News shows that Jackson is quite enthusiastic about the property, and that he hopes to start WETA on some design work while he, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens get to work on developing screenplays.

So we learn that Sky One is planning to remake The Prisoner. Well, it was bound to happen eventually, one supposes. But there’s catch.

Via Whedonesque, we learn from the man himself that he’s going to be writing a brand new Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic for Dark Horse which will be canonical and set post-Buffy and Angel. And there’s more news beyond that.

Via Steven Brust’s LiveJournal we learn many interesting things—such as that the man is silver (according to one test), that Vlad is presently wandering around in search of a plot, and that Brust is presently working on a media tie-in novel for Joss Whedon’s excellent Firefly.

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, has announced that the scripts of all the episodes of the series that he wrote will be published in a series of volumes, which will include new material. Notable among the new material will be the outline he wrote for what would happen over the course of the series had the character of Jeffrey Sinclair remained on the show. The website offering the scripts is not yet live, but you can sign up to recieve an e-mail notification when that changes.