I am not too sure if you’ve noticed the goings on at our other site Kongisking.net, but Gandalf has returned to New Zealand to spy for us on the set of Peter Jackson’s King Kong. Take a look at PJ’s crew trying to capture the quick-footed wizard, and a great few seconds of Andy Serkis with a machine gun! [More]
Month: October 2004
Kiwi writes: I have just returned from the David Wenham Seminar at the Doris Duke Theatre sponsored by the Hawaii Film Festival. It was a delightful evening beginning with David sharing his family background, stating as a young boy his father would give him season theatre tickets every year for his birthday and it was one night while watching a play he felt he wanted to become an actor. [More]
Sven writes: The Greater Union in Sydney have cancelled the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Marathon scheduled for November 25th. No reason was given by management.
In celebration of the Lord of the Rings 50th anniversary, Ted Nasmith presents slides of his paintings from the new edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to the trilogy. Nasmith was commissioned for twenty-six new paintings. He will be at ‘Books Inc.’ in Mountain View, CA today (Oct 29th).
‘Frodo’ writes: I was considering going to Autographmania but some of the talk going on about this event made me nerveous. When the website went offline I nosed around and got this on the main Autographmania website: The website is currently down due to a database error, we are working very hard to recover the database. You can contact us by email. Due to unforseen circumstances Ringfest 2005 in Chicago has been postponed, thank you for your interest in the event and we will be in contact when a new date has been announced. No charges have been or will be made for any tickets booked.
Cathy writes: GuitarMania benefits the United Way and The Rock&Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Liv Tyler was one of the celebrity artists and the guitars are being auctioned online through November 5th. [More]