KONG is coming is the title of Wired Magazine’s King Kong special feature in the October issue. Jonathan Bing details PJ’s Wellywood setup and goes deeper into the origins and series of events that led to him making Kong Kong, and our special Production Diaries on KongisKing.net. Be sure to check out ‘Gorilla Filmmaking’, an amazing series of photos featuring some of the major players at WETA/Big Primate/3 foot 6 and all the other companies under Peter’s banner. Some very familiar faces are seen here, it is a great photo spread and a great article. Check out the photos in our scrapbook, and to read the article go to your local newsstands now or order WIRED online. [Images] [Wired Magazine]
Day: September 26, 2005
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC will postpone Wednesday’s scheduled premieres of 8-9 p.m. comedies “George Lopez” and “Freddie” for one week to make room for a rerun of the season premiere of “Lost,” which will lead into the drama thriller’s second episode at 9 p.m. Coming on the heels of its Emmy win for best drama, “Lost” opened its second season last week with an all-time high of 23.4 million viewers. ABC said it decided to repeat the “Lost” season opener after receiving calls from viewers who missed part of the episode because of hurricane-related news pre-emptions.
You might mistake Elijah Wood for any other music geek flipping through the CD racks in the Loop’s Rock Records. With an armful of albums (The Warlocks, Roky Erickson, Black Mountain, Johnny “Guitar” Watson) he even sounds like one. “Have you ever heard of Dead Meadow?” the 24-year-old asks one tattooed salesman. “Have you heard of Wolf Mother, that band from Australia? Very Blue Cheer.” [More]
Sora Song writes: Sometime poet, indie publisher, photographer, painter, musician and Lord of the Rings king Viggo Mortensen plays a family man in A History of Violence: ‘I read that your co-star Maria Bello said her first reaction after watching the film was, “I thought I was going to vomit.” What was your reaction?’ Viggo: ‘Umm … I didn’t feel like puking. I was very happy, to be honest. I guess I was sort of drained, but the main thing I felt was happy. I think David Cronenberg’s way of [making] a movie is as close to perfect as you’re going to find.’ [More]
The latest episode of American Dad featured a funny little moment with some Star Wars and LOTR fans at a convention. Take a look (DivX v5.2.1 codec required). [More]
Andrea writes: Hey Xoanon! Alan Lee is coming in Milan on December 8th, I’m trying to obtain a private interview with him for my website, I’ll translate it for you there if you are interested in it. [More]