  You Want Your Classic NZ LOTR News Segments? You Got ‘em!Linuxelf is building something of an online video archive of New Zealand news segments involving LOTR. Linuxelf writes “I dont think any of this stuff has been seen outside NZ so I thought it would be good to post them so other people can see them”. Take a look at these! Ngila Dickson & Richard Taylor Interviews, plus a segment about Hobbiton Tours.
Video: Daniel Falconer InterviewLinuxelf writes: I just posted another clip on YouTube this ones an interview with Daniel Falconer (WETA Workshop), talking about the level of detail that went into the making of the armour and weapons for the LOTR triology! Jackson didn’t want Hobbit pressure
Strong ties in Best Picture race
“Avatar” with powerful ties to Weta Digital and “District 9,” produced by Peter Jackson and with conceptual design (not an Academy category) also from Weta, are competing in the “Best Picture” category. The two films are also nominated in “Best Visual Effects,” and “Best Editing.” Each film received other nominations as well. See inside for a full list of all nominations and talk about it in our forums.
Video: Broadmore & Taylor Talk ‘Grordbort’Linuxelf sends along the video to an interview with ‘Doctor Grordbort’s’ creator Greg Broadmore, take a look! Nominate Shore for Canada’s Walk of FameW writes: I visited your site the other day, that visit made me think about how much I enjoyed the scores from the LOTR trilogy. Which, in turn, made me think about how I tried for three years in a row to get Howard Shore onto Canada’s Walk of Fame. Obviously, I was not successful. I just nominated him (again) tonight and wondered if you would like to post something on your website encouraging others to do the same. More.. Movie review: Avatar’s visuals dazzle
This might be the case with James Cameron’s “Avatar” which was released Friday with an incredible amount of hype – both grass-roots and manufactured through an advertising campaign that might lead viewers to expect the greatest movie known to the history of humankind.
Peter Jackson ‘plans movie museum’Peter Jackson is planning to set up a film museum in Wellington, sources say. It is understood the development, with a working name of New Zealand Movie World, is planned for opposite his Park Road Post Production facility in Miramar. Props from Jackson’s movies – including his Lord of the Rings trilogy and as far back as Bad Taste in 1987 – would be on public display. A film school could also be included in the development. A spokesman for Jackson said yesterday that there had been “nothing new and nothing active” in planning for a Wellington-based movie museum and film school since a similar proposal for Shelly Bay fell over about a year ago. More.. Video: Lovely Bones Red Carpet Interviews Boyens, Selkirk and More
LOTR Trilogy TE Blu-ray: Street Date April 6“The best movie of the decade” Entertainment Weekly  THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE MOTION PICTURE TRILOGY Burbank, Calif, December 14, 2009 – Oscar®-winning The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, one of the most magical, intensely spectacular epic adventures in motion picture history, can now be seen as never before when all three of Peter Jackson’s visual masterpieces explode onto Blu-ray Disc April 6th as The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy. The nine-disc set will reawaken the powerful connection that fans have to these films through rich, robust colors and crisp sound that home audiences can only experience on Blu-ray Disc. The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy will include digital copies of each film on three separate discs and will also be BD-Live enabled, offering exciting new interactive possibilities. The highly anticipated release will precede Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment’s The Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest videogame launch.
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Promotional campaigns for films are designed to do one thing: Sell tickets. Unfortunately, they sometimes mislead viewers into expecting something a film doesn’t deliver which can taint the viewing experience.
