If you’re a Star Wars fan, pop along to #moviechat on the TORn IRC server and join in our ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’ viewing party! We’ve just started and will be around watching the film together for the next couple of hours! [Join the chat!] (Once in the main channel, type /join #moviechat )
Day: May 28, 2005
In the first week of sales toward the February 2006 Toronto world premiere of the musical The Lord of the Rings, theatregoers snapped up $7 million (Canadian) in tickets, a spokesperson for the Toronto producers confirmed. Tickets to the lavish stage musical went on sale May 15 – nine months before its premiere. Interest from U.S. theatregoers was reported as intense. [More]
Weta Workshop/Digital (the production company that created the visual effects for the Lord of the Rings trilogy) is seeking Digital Artists to work on upcoming feature films, including King Kong which is current in post production. Weta Digital seeks Keyframe Animators, Motion Editors, Modelers, Shader Writers, Matte Painters, Character TDs, 3D Texture Painters, Compositors, 2D Paint Artists and VFX Production Coordinators. [More]
Farmer Barley Jones writes: Return Of the King flautist Sir James Galway won the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award recently at the 2005 Classical BRIT Awards. [More]
Hooligans, written and directed by Lexi Alexander with a cast featuring Elijah Wood, Claire Forlani, Marc Warren, Charlie Hunnam and Leo Gregory will screen at the LA Femme Film Festival tonight (May 28th), at 8:00 PM. [More]