Brad Dourif (wormtoungue) was up to his evil tricks again. He made a small yet hilarious apperance on ‘Norm’ starring Norm McDonald.



Brad played the Devil, nuff said i guess. He was ‘urging’ the viewers to let the ‘kiddies watch’. With a sick evil giggle, great stuff πŸ™‚

Thanks to Siamese Twins Gandalf and Gamgee for the tip!!

The News item Xtem was talking about has been posted on their website. There’s a RealAudio clip of the article. But just in case you can’t access it here’s the text:

WELLINGTON ENJOYS RINGS PROSPERITY

Filming of the three part

blockbuster ‘Lord of the

Rings’ is proving a big

winner for Wellington.

Cafes, landlords, hire

companies and retailers all

say they are reaping

benefits from the making of

the movie.

“We’re hoping for a lot more

from it. It’s good work,”

says Vaughan Clark from

Triple A Cranes.

‘Lord of the Rings’ is

spending a hundred million

dollars in Wellington alone.

They are hiring a thousand

locals as extras, and the full

time staff from overseas are

keeping real estate agents

busy.

“On the residential side it’s

stopped the decline and

that has got to be good for

everybody. On the industrial

commercial side it’s taken

up slack that nobody knew

what to do with,” says Brian

Baker from Home Rent.

Director Peter Jackson has

taken over factories and

warehouses that were left

empty by the demise of

other businesses.

And he is keeping

booksellers happy too.

“Since the movie started it’s

just been amazing. We can’t

get enough of it basically.

The publishers find it hard

to keep up with supply,”

says Bruce Caddy of

Dymocks Booksellers.

Supplying food for the stars

is also big business.

“They come for lunch or they

come for a quick morning

tea or they come for

takeaways,” says Penny

Pennington of the Chocolate

Fish cafe

And locals seem to be

getting the odd glimpse at

the stars.

“One day Elijah Wood yelled

out to Liv Tyler, ‘You don’t

need your sunglasses and

your collar turned up here

Liv, it’s quite casual'”,

Pennington said.

The hobbits the elves and

the auks invade

Queenstown next week

Published Wednesday, November 03, 1999

Thanks to Spy-Hunter for the tip!

Super Ringer Spy Xtem checks in with the latest. (A note to all kiwi Ringer Spies, keep those VCRs on standby all the time!)

Channel 1 news here in New Zealand at 6pm tonight featured a report on the filming. They showed shots of the Harcourt Park set, with a close up of the fake tree that was created, with a good shot of the leaves. Then it switched to an interview with Rick Poras, associate producer. With a stand-out American accent, he basically said that he hoped that the tree looked as good on the film as it did in real life…

For the rest, check out The Spy Reports!

Super Ringer Spy J send me some interesting trivia regarding the fake script cover.

Thought you’d be interested to know that Peter Jackson’s choice of “Jamboree” as a misleading title on script covers of LOTR has a pretty cool reason behind it.

After the original “King Kong” – Jackson’s favorite movie – came out in ’33, its great success prompted the studio to immediately begin work on a sequel, “The Son of Kong”. However, because they feared that the set would be besieged by people wanting to know about the film and see how the giant ape and other prehistoric denizens of Kong’s island were created, they gave the project the false title of “Jamboree”, which allowed them to maintain secrecy.

Clearly, being the dyed-in-the-wool geek that he is, Jackson is tipping his hat to Kong with this deception. And this is the reason why I would always immediately snatch up a script called “Jamboree”.

Thanks to J and Just Another Ent for the tip!

Grishnakh sent me this interesting little article from ebay.

Title of item: LORD OF THE RINGS. Tolkien 3 Vol. 1st UK w/DJ

Seller: atamelio@cris.com

Starts: 11/01/99, 18:20:53 PST

Ends: 11/08/99, 18:20:53 PST

Price: Starts at $6,500.00

To bid for the item over at ebay, click here

This casting call comes from Daniel it may be about a day old. But I’m sure there will be another one soon.

production company Three Foot Six Ltd is holding casting calls tomorrow at Hamilton’s Riverlea Theatre for extras for Peter Jackson’s $260 million film version of Lord of the Rings. The company is looking for men and women aged from 40 and 90 of “rounder proportions” between 143cm and 168cm tall. They are also seeking children from 6 to 15 years old and between 118cm and 128cm tall for roles later this year and next year. About 200 people are needed for filming at Hinuera, south of Matamata, beginning in December. Children will be auditioned from 10am to noon and adult extras from 1.30 to 4pm.

(c) The Waikato Times, INL 1999. WAIKATO TIMES 30/10/1999 P3

Thanks to Daniel for the tip!