Alex Etel writes: Hey everyone, I have posted my very first production diary of my experiences of making The Waterhorse. This is the first time I have done anything like this and I am learning as I go. And it was exactly one year ago today that I got the role! [More]
Day: March 7, 2007
Lost’s Dominic Monaghan will play an 18th-century gravedigger and Hellboy’s Ron Perlman is attached to play his priest in the horror film I Sell the Dead for producer-actor Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Monaghan (The Lord of the Rings) and Fessenden (Broken Flowers) will portray London corpse traders who perform services for an aristocratic doctor. [More]
Estel writes: I just wanted fans of Alan Lee to know that he will sign copies of Children of Hurin at Forbidden Planet bookstore, Shaftesbury Avenue, London. The signing will be on April 19th between 6 and 7 pm. Also mail order, phone 020 7803 1900.
Lion2b writes: Bernard Hill’s film The Heart of the Earth will be released officially on March 11, 2007. One of the venues will include a showing at the the Miami Film Festival. Further information regarding the film and interviews with Bernard Hill can be found at the official website.
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS – News) announced today that the complete collection of Middle-earth PC Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games will be available with The Lord of the Rings(TM), The Battle for Middle-earth(TM) Anthology(1). For the first time The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth Anthology offers fans the chance to bring together all the epic The Lord of the Rings(TM) battles with The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth(TM), The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II(TM) Collector’s Edition and The Lord of the Rings, The Battle for Middle-earth II, The Rise of the Witch-King(TM) within a single compilation, and all for an MSRP of $39.99. [More]
Lucy writes: Whilst browsing the Bonhams auctioneers online catalogues I noticed an old document for sale marked “Tolkien and Birmingham – Sarehole Mill” looks to be an old indenture for Tolkien’s Mill. It is lot 625 in an auction on 27 March 2007 at Bonhams’ New Bond Street salerooms in London of “The Library of the late Paul Betts and other properties including manuscripts”.
From the website: Sarehole Mill occupies a central place in the story of J.R.R. Tolkien, as John Ezard, then writing for the Oxford Mail, discovered: “Seven years before his death Tolkien told me about Sarehole, his imaginative heartland, a small village near Birmingham which was the starting-point for his fictional Shire in both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. [bonhams.com]