Archive for June, 2010

What next for the NZ film industry?

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in Director news, Director Rumors, Guillermo Del Toro, Hobbit Movie, MGM, New Zealand, Peter Jackson, Studios, The Hobbit, WETA Digital, WETA Workshop

Linuxelf sends along a video from New Zealand TV's Breakfast show featuring a story about GDT and the fate of The Hobbit. More.. Read more..

TheOneRing.net Message Boards Registers their 5,000th user!

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in Events, Fans, TheOneRing.net Announcements, TheOneRing.net Community

TORN Staffer Altaira writes: Our message boards has just registered the 5,000th user! Pretty amazing considering the new boards went live Feb 17, 2007, so they just passed their 3rd ... Read more..

Noble Cause

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in John Noble

Australian thespian John Noble is best known to the U.S. crowd for a pair of pleasingly unhinged performances. In Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" saga, he brought wild-eyed ... Read more..

AMC Theatres.Com Movie News Talks GDT

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in Director news, Director Rumors, Guillermo Del Toro, Hobbit Movie, MGM, Studios, The Hobbit

From our pal John Campea at amcentertainment.com: As most of you have heard by now, this past weekend it was announced that director Guillermo del Toro has stepped down from ... Read more..

2010 Mythopoeic Award Finalists

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in J.R.R. Tolkien, Other Events, Tolkien

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume, or single-author story collection for adults published during 2009 that best exemplifies the spirit of the ... Read more..

Weta Digital dominates NZ supercomputers in Top 500

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 Posted in New Zealand, WETA Digital

Seven ultra-powerful computers from New Zealand made the latest Top 500 list of supercomputers. Weta Digital has taken six of the spots in the list, which is issued by US ... Read more..

Who will helm ‘The Hobbit’?

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Posted in Director news, Director Rumors, Guillermo Del Toro, Hobbit Movie, MGM, Peter Jackson, PJ's Other Films, Studios, WETA Workshop

In case you were unplugged and off the information grid all weekend, TheOneRing.net broke the story that Guillermo del Toro has stepped away from directing duties on two planned (hoped ... Read more..

Free $25 Sideshow Collectibles Gift Code

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 Posted in Collectibles, Merchandise, Sideshow Collectibles, TheOneRing.net Announcements

Sideshow Collectors rejoice! We've just secured an exclusive arrangement with Sideshow to offer ALL TheOneRing.net readers a free $25 Gift Card Code to their website SideshowCollectibles.com. You can use the ... Read more..