KAITOKE REGIONAL PARK–Peacocks stroll across a grassy clearing. A tumbling stream, redirected from the nearby forest, flows under a moss-covered bridge. A waterfall adds a dramatic touch.
Towering tiled buildings–some stretching 40 feet high–are clustered around the open area. Their walls and pillars are intricately detailed with carvings of Elven faces, flowers and birds.
Welcome to LOTR’s exquisitely detailed Rivendell set. Located about 90 minutes north of Wellington and nestled amid the mountains and forests of a nature preserve, it’s a masterpiece of design and location. [More]
Just got this from New Line (As did anyone on the movie mailing list…check that mail!) :
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New Line Cinema presents J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.
A first look at the HEROES
A first look at the CREATURES
A first look at the TALE that inspired millions
Exclusively on http://www.lordoftherings.net
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Hey folks, this is NOT an april fools! Finally the footage has returned to the fans!
Company Offers The Latest In Fast, High-Quality And Affordable Professional Software To Meet The Sophisticated Compositing Needs Of The New Millennium [More]
From: Aiglos
Company Offers The Latest In Fast, High-Quality And Affordable Professional Software To Meet The Sophisticated Compositing Needs Of The New Millennium
LOS ANGELES, CA, Mar 27, 2000 (INTERNET WIRE via COMTEX) — Nothing
Real(TM), a leading high-end compositing software provider to the digital content creation market, announced today that it is now shipping Version 2.2 of its highly acclaimed Shake(TM) product line. The release sports significant improvements and features a new timeline-based compositing workspace, multiprocessor support, and tracking/stabilizing tools for added functionality. The enhancements in Shake Version 2.2 are designed to boost productivity and extend interoperability with other products and third- party solutions to provide users with an even faster, high quality compositing software feature set. Shake 2.2 is available on the Windows NT(R) and IRIX(R) platforms.
Shake Version 2.2 Highlights Shake is a high performance compositing tool that enables digital content creatives in feature film, broadcast, HDTV, video post-production and game development to more interactively, powerfully and creatively bring sophisticated composites to completion.
Highlights of Shake Version 2.2 include: Multi-processor support Shake has always been recognized as the fastest compositing software on the market. It is now even faster. Shake is now fully multi-threaded to take advantage of both Windows NT and SGI IRIX multi-processor based systems, which have now become standard in the industry.
Tracker/stabilizer 2.2 now has a very robust tracker/stabilizer. This feature will allow the
artist to do more within the same Shake environment. This new technology will allow users to track and stabilize the position, rotation and scaling of a layer as well as perform four corner pinning with superior control over individual layers. Given the open nature of the Shake work environment, tracking information can also be applied to any parameter in the composite.
Shake is currently being used by leading entertainment companies worldwide including Black Logic, Blue Sky Studios, Cinesite, Das Werk, Digital Filmworks, Double Negative, Dream Quest Images, Dream Works, Glassworks, Gray Matter, Manex, Smoke and Mirrors, WETA Digital, and many others. It has been used to meet the compositing needs in films such as “Anna and the King,” “Bicentennial Man,” “Fight Club,” “Mission to Mars,” “The Matrix,” “Pleasantville,” “Titanic,” “The Million Dollar Hotel,” “The World is Not Enough,” and many others. It is currently being used to composite the upcoming films “2001 – A Space Travesty,” “Big Mama,” “Gladiator,” “Lord of the Rings,” “Mission Impossible 2”, “Navy Diver,” “Nutty Professor 2,” “Romeo Must Die,” and others.
For more on this and other computer jiggery pokery, visit our SFX section.
Fans of Humpty Dumpty’s Ringolos cheese chips will enjoy this newly announced contest sponsored by New Line Cinema! [More]
Fans of Humpty Dumpty’s Ringolos cheese chips will enjoy this newly announced contest sponsored by New Line Cinema.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Jon Portly
New Line Cinema/NY
(212) 750-4945
Sonya Chang
Humpty Dumpty Inc./LA
(310) 856-6654
“THE LORD OF THE RINGS” PRODUCERS AND HUMPTY DUMPTY INC ANNOUNCE “LORD OF THE RINGOLOS CONTEST”
(New York City, March 31, 2000) “Lord of the Ringolos Contest” announced today will begin next month in North America, using the Humpty Dumpty brand of chips ‘Ringolos’.
Humpty Dumpty and New Line Cinema have worked out a promotional deal to boost interest in the Trilogy of films due out Christmas 2001, 2002 and 2003. Humpty Dumpty wishes to promote it’s most popular chip, the ‘Ringolo’ to an even wider audience.
‘The Lord of the Ringolos Contest’ will begin May 1st and last until all prizes are awarded. Prizes include; A home entertainment center, a trip to Barbadoes, as well as many smaller New Line Cinema and Humpty Dumpty prize packs.
The Rules for the contest: Each bag of specialy marked ‘Lord of the Ringolos’ chips may include a special Ringolo with Elf designs. If you recieve one of these Ringolos, fill out a self addressed stamped envilope to;
‘Lord of the Ringolos Contest’
C/O Humpty Dumpty
P.O. Box 45723
New York, New York
10013
Founded in 1922, the Humpty Dumpty brand of products stands for quality and excellence. Our many brands of chips include, ‘Ruffles’ ‘Doritoes’ ‘Ripples’ ‘Ringolos’ and ‘Trail Mix’.
Founded in 1967, New Line Cinema is the entertainment industry’s leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical motion pictures. New Line licenses its films to ancillary markets including cable and broadcast television as well as to international venues. The company, which is a subsidiary of Time Warner, Inc., operates several divisions including in-house theatrical distribution, marketing, home video, television, acquisitions, production, licensing and merchandising units.
Happy April Fools Day 🙂 (a bit early, but who cares!)
