Archive for May 21st, 2006

Watts joins Mortensen for thriller

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Lord of the Rings, LotR: Cast News, LotR: Movies, Old Main News, PJ's Other Films, Peter Jackson, Viggo Mortensen

Naomi Watts will join Viggo Mortensen for the London-based thriller Eastern Promises. David Cronenberg will direct the script by Steven Knight, which delves into the same seedy underside of ... Read more..

Weisz, McKellen and Sarandon Join Colossus

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Ian McKellen, Lord of the Rings, LotR: Cast News, LotR: Movies, Old Main News

From Variety: Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen and Susan Sarandon have joined Colin Firth in The Colossus, a colonial drama set in South Africa at the turn of the 20th ... Read more..

Wilde role for hearthrob Sean Bean

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Lord of the Rings, LotR: Cast News, LotR: Movies, Old Main News, Sean Bean

Sean Bean is to star in the big screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance. US stars Lindsay Lohan and Annette Bening have also been cast ... Read more..

CSO’s “Rings” binds movies, symphony

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Concerts, Crew News, Events, Howard Shore, Lord of the Rings, LotR: Movies, Old Main News

Although famed composers ranging from Sergei Prokofiev to Aaron Copland have written music for movies, the classical music world has tended to look down their noses at it. But that ... Read more..

Souvenir of Tolkien’s WW1 ordeal on show

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Events, Exhibits, J.R.R. Tolkien, Old Main News, Tolkien

From The Observer: A Webley Mark VI revolver carried at the Battle of the Somme by JRR Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, is to go on ... Read more..

Viggo Mortensen Tells Grads ‘Activism Not A Dirty Word’

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Lord of the Rings, LotR: Cast News, LotR: Movies, Old Main News, Viggo Mortensen

Newswise — "Lord of the Rings" star Viggo Mortensen told the graduates of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, that "activism is not a dirty word" and urged ... Read more..