Ringer Spy Holly sends along these images of Sean Astin at the recent Dallas Comic Con. Take a look! [More]
Day: February 14, 2005
Daladriel writes: Ian Mckellen is helping judge the upcoming First Light Film Awards, a contest honoring young UK filmmakers. It will be held in Leicester Square, London on February 23. He will be judging alongside other stars such as Jude Law, Rupert Grint, and Colin Salmon. [More]
Are you one of the lucky folks heading to the New York Toy Fair next week? If so, drop us a line! We’ve got some geekage we need you to report on! [Email us]
Celebriel writes: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Psychology Today reports that watching Viggo Mortensen and Liv Tyler in Lord of the Rings can make our husbands and wives look all too schlumpy. [More]
Celebriel forwards a Wellington Dominion Post article identifying A US computer chip company and a Canadian biotech firm as the first international clients for WETA‘s New Zealand Computing Centre, formed in partnership with Telcom subsidiary Gen-i in September 2004. The downtown Wellington center is the largest commercially-available supercomputing cluster in the southern hemisphere – offering the power of about 9000 PCs. [More]
Wellington film-maker Fran Walsh now has a Grammy to keep her three Oscar statuettes company. Walsh shared a Grammy with composer Howard Shore and singer Annie Lennox for the song Into the West from Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King. The trio scooped the best song written for a motion picture, television or other visual media category at the top American music awards show in Los Angeles last night. [More]