Check out ringersstore.com — the brand new RINGERS website and online store — a destination you absolutely must visit for details on the upcoming smash-hit documentary RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS, and for specialty shopping items you can find nowhere else! The familiar old URL lordofthefans.net will redirect you to www.ringersstore.com. Revel in the glowing reviews as critics around the world rally to praise the film called “Wildly entertaining!” (Amazon.com) and what “Will always be a salient part of Lord of the Rings history!” (Filmthreat.com)…. While you are there, join the discussion boards as the buzz continues to build on this groundbreaking film, being released Nov. 22 by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Day: November 3, 2005
From Houghton Mifflin: Following up on TORN’s Hall of Fire live chat, Houghton Mifflin will also give fans a chance to ask questions of Alan Lee. If anyone misses the live chat, or doesn’t have the opportunity to get their question answered, here’s another opportunity for them:
Pose questions about Alan Lee’s brand-new book, ‘THE LORD OF THE RINGS SKETCHBOOK’, to Alan Lee himself! The world-renowned, Academy Award-winning Lord of the Rings artist will answer your questions about the SKETCHBOOK the week of November 7th on Houghton Mifflin’s online Discussion Forum. The Forum will be accepting questions on Monday, November 7th & 8th. Alan Lee’s answers will be posted by Friday, November 11. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of requests we cannot guarantee answers to all questions. [More]
Video gamers chipped in for a good cause on Wednesday night by bidding on an Xbox and a copy of Halo 2 autographed by Peter Jackson. The winning bid took home the console and game for $1500, with total proceeds from the celebrity auction at Auckland Town Hall reaching $190,000. The auction was to raise money for the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust, which operates a music therapy centre in the Auckland suburb of Newton. The centre opened in 2003 and caters for special-needs children of school age and younger. [More]
New Zealand film director Peter Jackson, of Wellington, has bought rights to one of China’s best-selling novels of recent years, Wolf Totem, a tale of rugged life among wolves on the Mongolian plains. Jackson, best known for his trilogy of dark fantasies in The Lord of the Rings and his version of King Kong – to be released next month – has bought the story rights to the novel and plans to produce a film based on it, the New York Times reports. The story tells how a young Han Chinese man and his friends steal a young wolf from its pit and raise it in their tent. Written by a 59-year-old political scientist at a Beijing university – who uses the pen name Jiang Rong – Wolf Totem has been acclaimed internationally as a stirring allegorical critique of Chinese civilisation, which he calls soft and lacking in individuality and freedom. [More]