Sideshow/Weta Hooded Rohirrim Bust - Comic Con Exclusive

Going to Comic Con? This year Sideshow/Weta Collectibles will be offering attendees an opportunity at an exclusive Lord of the Rings bust: The Hooded Rohirrim Soldier Bust. If you want to get this piece, you must pre-order it before the show. Follow this link for details. [Click Here] [High-Res Image in Scrapbook] For those of you not going to the show, they are offering 10% of the edition size via pre-order on their website this coming Wednesday.

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High Rez ROTK Trailer Stills - The Battle Massive Software announced today a key advancement of the company’s Academy Award-winning 3D animation system for AI-driven characters and digital stunts with Massive 2.0. Now shipping, the 2.0 release adds such features as Smart Stunts, fully anti-aliased viewing of agents and scenes, facial blend shape support, new motion tree workflow, and a host of updates that streamline and speed the software’s overall operation and UI. [More]

Hey you guys! More than 400 Goonies fans from as far away as England and Australia are descending on Astoria this weekend to celebrate the 20th anniversary of “The Goonies,” the much-loved movie that features locations in Astoria and Cannon Beach. [More]

Howard Shore’s LOTR Symphony will be playing three concerts in the Toronto region this weekend. Today (June 4th) he will be with the Kitchener Waterloo Philharmonic at the Raffi Hall in Kitchener and tomorrow (June 5th) he will be giving two performances at the Thomson Hall in Toronto. Take a look at this link for more dates and locations! [More]

The Lord of the Rings Exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Opens today! (June 4th). From the website: Developed by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in partnership with New Line Cinema, this exhibit will appear at only three U.S. venues. This exhibition was made possible through the support of the New Zealand Government. The Houston Museum of Natural Science would like to thank Time Warner Cable and The Examiner Newspapers, our local sponsors, who made it possible to bring this exhibition to Houston. [More]