A few of us at TheOneRing.net are packing our bags and road-tripping to Virginia Beach, VA for this year’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy Convetion ImagineCon! (we should have left an hour ago, but thats besides the point…)
Here is our schedule for this wonderful convention:
Friday 4-6pm – How to design and maintain a fantasy based website (E2 Pavilion)
Saturday 1-3pm – Secrets Revealed About the Lord of the Rings Movie (Rehearsal Hall Pavilion)
If you are in the Virginia area please do stop by and say hello! Corvar, Blasm and myself would love to meet you!
Check out the complete ImagineCon schedule : http://www.imaginecon.com
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Cinescape Magazine
Thursday, April 27 mark our latest ‘TheOneRing.net Live Net Event’ with Cinescape Magazine Editor in Chief Steve Hockensmith!
Ask him your movie, magazine or publishing questions! What does he have planed as far as LOTR coverage? Be at Barliman’s on April 27th! More news to come!
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Here is some long-awaited piece of news from WETALand. They finally acquired a film scanner ( a device that is used to scan filmed plates into a computer for further manipulation).
Imagica Corp. ( http://www.imagica.com/ ) (Tokyo, Japan) announced the sale of its Imager XE digital film scanner to Weta Ltd. (Wellington, New Zealand) to assist in the production of director Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of “The Lord of The Rings.” Jon Labrie, chief technical officer at Weta, reviewed the performance of the XE, praising its speed, image steadiness and digital output quality necessary for production of an estimated 2 million frames of “Rings” VFX imagery. The XE is capable of handling up to 2,000 foot film rolls, with a proprietary film gate transport allowing 16mm, 35mm 4-perf and 8-perf (VistaVision) formats. VistaVision scans are possible up to 4096 x 6144 pixels, with 35mm scans available at 2K, 3K and 4K resolution.
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For more on this and other computer jiggery pokery, check out our SFX section! [More]
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TORN staffer Pipesmoke sends info on the latest update to our Barliman’s regulars map!
The map of regulars, maintained (albeit not so regularly! :)) by me, PipeSmoke… has just been updated for this first time this millenium! almost 100 new names grace it’s hallowed list. [More]
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This is a cool piece of news, seems that Ian McKellen (Gandalf) is letting a little bit spill as to what we shall see in ‘Return of the King!’
Ian,
I suspect that Peter Jackson’s film will discuss such things as the Three Rings of the Elf Lords, one of which (Narya) is held by Gandalf himself. Will this ring be visible upon Gandalf’s finger in the film? Is he even shown to be the keeper?
Gorboth,
by the end of the third film Narya will be in evidence
best wishes from middle earth
ian mckellen
Thanks to Gorboth for the email!
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Having gotten an email about this last week, I was wary, I assumed people thought the trailer we’ve all seen on the net will be in theatres, which I know will never happen, but now this from Cinescape. It seems we’re going to see a NEW trailer in theatres perhaps THIS summer! Woo Hoo!!!
From: Cinescape.com
Theatrical ‘LOTR’ Trailer? Okay, we’ve all seen the online Lord of the Rings preview, but when’s it, or the first official trailer, going to hit movie theater screens? According to Mr. Showbiz columnist Charles Fleming, it may be very soon courtesy of an unnamed source at New Line. The source reports that New Line is currently working on a trailer for the first of three films, which won’t open until Christmas 2001, for theater screens either this summer or fall. The source also tells the columnist, “It will be huge. You won’t be able to escape it.”
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