The awesome folks at Ubisoft are about to launch a contest to get your knees shaking, your heart a-pumping and your mouth drooling! Pick up ‘Peter Jackson’s King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie’ and you could win an all expense paid trip to Wellington to visit WETA WORKSHOP!! That’s right! You heard it here first folks! Swing on over to kingkonggame.com for full contest rules and details.
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Day: October 19, 2005
Zebraham writes: I am sending along a telephone interview with Viggo Mortensen by the Second Public Channel (ZDF) in Germany. The interview is part of the “German Dream Project” where artists, actors and reporters from all over the world are interviewed about their view on and vision for Germany for the future. Viggo Mortensen reflects on his own history and origin, and one of the advices he gives to Germans: “Be as Chinese as possible!”. (5.8MB MP3) [More]
Although obsessive fans of the three Lord of the Rings movies are the ones who will travel over a hundred miles and take off work to catch Lord of the Rings — The Exhibition at the Indiana State Museum — one of only a few stops that included the likes of Boston, London, Sydney and Singapore; Indianapolis is its last — casual movie-watchers and lovers of movie-making in general will find something to be fascinated by. The exhibit is a combination of traditional art, movie-making art and movie-making technology. Costuming of hand-woven silk from Indonesia, prints and hand-made artwork depicting scenes from the movie and props, props and more props fill two galleries at the ISM. [More]
‘Lost’, featuring Dominic Monaghan, is on ABC tonight at 9PM EST. [abc.go.com]
Dana Jongewaard from 1up.com writes: Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson recently took time from his busy schedule to answer a few questions on his latest cinematic opus, King Kong. And, of course, to talk about Ubisoft’s upcoming video game version, which has all the earmarks of being one of those rare and wonderful games based on a movie that stands on its own merits. [More]
Ioreth writes: Erik Andersson, the person having now completed the new translation of LOTR into swedish, is going to talk a bit about the book this thursday (20/10), at Science-Fiction-Bokhandeln in Göteborg at 18:00. The Tolkien Society in Göteborg, Mithlond, will be there too, from about 17:00. [sfbok.se]