Zack writes: There will be a screening of FOTR with a live symphony on April 24 2008 for one night only in Winnipeg Manitoba (Canada). It will be at the MTS Center (downtown Winnipeg), FOTR will be played on a 800 foot Hi Definition screen. The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra will be performing Howard Shore’s score along with the movie live as well as over 100 singers for the choir and solos. There are 4 areas to sit, Floor, 1st level, 2nd level and 3rd level. The MTS Center is also a hockey rink so you can imagine that the floor seats is on the unfrozen ice and 1st-3rd levels are higher up in the stands. Continue reading “Watch FOTR with Live Music in Winnipeg”
Day: March 13, 2008
deej sends along this link to an AP/CNN article claiming that there will be 2 Hobbit themed films from Warner Bros./New Line, and filming is set to begin next year. She writes, I was reading this article about the 7th Harry Potter film being split into 2 films, and came across this: “Another famous Tolkien tome, “The Hobbit,” is also being split into two live-action movies set for back-to-back shooting to begin next year.” Read the entire article here.
Shawn writes: There is a humorous new LOTR-themed Yahoo! Mail/messaging demo that Yahoo has put out on their site, take a look here.
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: Once the most-used pass in the North, the High Pass has long stood as a residence for goblins and giants. Fans of the The Hobbit will recognize this as the pass where Thorin and Company were forced to take shelter from stone-throwing giants outside Goblin-town. Exploring Middle-earth: High Pass
Martin writes: Guillermo del Toro is keeping up a pretty damn cool correspondence with the fans over at deltorofilms.com and on the forum of his Hellboy II Website, where he answers fan-questions on an almost daily basis. He also came to talk about the Hobbit a couple of times. Continue reading “Guillermo del Toro Answers Hobbit Questions”
Composer Howard Shore brought J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary imagination to vivid life with his Academy®- and Grammy® Award-winning score to Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Shore crafted a fully-developed musical epic that related the classic tale with moving and intricately related themes for each of Middle-earth’s cultures and charted the One Ring’s journey with an exhilarating flourish.
Upon its 2001 arrival, Shore’s score, composed for large symphony orchestra, adult and boys choruses and instrumental and vocal soloists, was proclaimed an instant classic. Now the massive composition makes an unprecedented move to the concert hall. On March 26 and 27, the Munich Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Ludwig Wicki, and the voices of the Universitätschor München will present Shore’s entire 3-hour score to The Fellowship of the Ring live to the projected film. Continue reading “12 Days Left Until German Premiere of LOTR: LOTR LIVE!”