Here are a few appetizers, so to speak, to tide you over before the anticipated meals arrive much, much later on.

- Rotten Tomatoes nabbed two exclusive clips from the upcoming The Golden Compass movie. The clips are crisp in quality and purdy lovely. Both feature the armored bear Iorek Byrnison. See if these don’t amuse your bouche.
- Doug Liman, who directed The Bourne Identify, Go, and Swingers, is in post-production for Jumper, a sci-fi action thriller about a young man who can teleport anywhere. The flick is based on the beloved novel by Steven Gould and stars Star Wars alums Hayden Christensen and Samuel L. Jackson. Sample the trailer here (I couldn’t think of any other decent pre-meal references–apologies).