How very cool to have LOTR mentioned on CNN, the greatest of all TV Stations, I LOVE CNN, can you tell? Ah well, working on getting the clip for you folks…and those CNN people that I KNOW read this site, get back to me! 🙂

CNN Headline News did a story on movie sequels, and the idea of shooting sequels at the same time came up, for example the next Matrix movies are being shot together, as was Back to the Future 2 and 3. They then mentioned The Lord of the Rings, and Bod Friedman of New Line talked about the benifits of shooting all the movies together, especially when using 20,000 extras. They showed a lot of the internet preview during it, with no new footage that I recognized. They usually repeat the stories every 45 minutes or so, so it will probably be on a couple more times today, but I have to go to school.

-Restola

Thought you might be interested to know there is a new biography of Sean Bean (Boromir) available. The unofficial biography has been written by Laura Jackson, who has also written biographies of Queen, Ewan McGregor, and other celebrities. There apparently isn’t too much info about LOTR since the bio focuses on Sean’s career up to this point, but LOTR is mentioned. You can get more info here at The Compleat Sean Bean

Piatkus Books, the publisher in the UK, has also set up a page.

Cheers,
Nona

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From: odt.co.nz

Last year, the 23-year-old (Orlando Bloom/Legolas) was winding up a three-year theatre training course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and pondering his future.

The day before he graduated, a telephone call from his agent changed his life. He had landed the role of the elf, Legolas, in Wellington director Peter Jackson’s $360 million Lord of the Rings trilogy for New Line Cinema, based on the J. R. R. Tolkien books, being set in faraway New Zealand. [More]

Thanks to Nokia for the tip!

Ringer Spy Chris sends in news of a stage play in Toronto, check it out.

Hi, don’t know if this is of importance or not, but a theatre group in Toronto is putting on a play of the hobbit this fall. I am going to it next week. Later. [More]