Cornelia Funke's "Ink" series of books has moved up from #5 to #4 on the New York Times series bestseller list for October 19 and her newest book Inkdeath has moved up from #41 to #33 on the USA Today bestseller list!

Based on the best-selling book by Cornelia Funke, "Inkheart" is a fantasy adventure that sends a father and daughter on a quest through worlds both real and imagined.

Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Brendan Fraser) and his 12-year-old daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), share a passion for books. What they also share is a unique gift for bringing characters from books to life when they read aloud. But there is a danger: for every character brought to life from a book, a real person disappears into its pages.

On one of their trips to a secondhand book shop, Mo hears voices he hasn't heard for years, and when he locates the book they're coming from, it sends a shiver up his spine. It's Inkheart, a book filled with illustrations of medieval castles and strange creatures - a book he's been searching for since Meggie was three years old, when her mother, Resa (Sienna Guillory), vanished into its mystical world.

But Mo's plan to use the book to find and rescue Resa is thwarted when Capricorn (Andy Serkis), the evil villain of Inkheart, kidnaps Meggie and demands Mo bring other evil fictional characters to life. Determined to rescue his daughter and send the fictional characters back where they belong, Mo assembles a unique group of friends and allies - some real, some magical - and embarks on a daring and perilous journey to set things right.

Based on the best-selling novel by Cornelia Funke, "Inkheart" stars Brendan Fraser ("The Mummy" films, "Journey to the Center of the Earth"), Paul Bettany ("The Da Vinci Code," "A Beautiful Mind"), Oscar winner Helen Mirren ("The Queen," "National Treasure: Book of Secrets"), Oscar winner Jim Broadbent ("The Chronicles of Narnia," upcoming "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince"), Andy Serkis ("The Lord of the Rings" trilogy), Eliza Hope Bennett ("Nanny McPhee") and Rafi Gavron ("Breaking and Entering").

A New Line Cinema Presentation, "Inkheart" is directed by Iain Softley ("The Skeleton Key," "The Wings of the Dove") from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire ("Robots"). Iain Softley, Diana Pokorny and Cornelia Funke produced the film, with Toby Emmerich, Mark Ordesky and Ileen Maisel serving as executive producers.

The behind-the-scenes creative team is led by Oscar -nominated director of photography Roger Pratt ("Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," "The End of the Affair"), production designer John Beard ("The History Boys"), Oscar -winning editor Martin Walsh ("V for Vendetta," "Chicago"), costume designer Verity Hawkes ("Snatch"), and Oscar -nominated composer Javier Navarrete ("Pan's Labyrinth").

"Inkheart" will be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company. This film has been rated PG for fantasy adventure action,

some scary moments and brief language.

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• Inkheart Sketchbook with Pencil Case and Pencils (arv $12), Tattoo Sheet (arv $1.99), Kids' Unisex Inkheart Tee (arv $12)

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