The Glass Hammer folks keep us updated on all the latest music for your ears. [More]
Month: May 2001
In lovely Quicktime goodness!! You can play ‘spot the star’ (or Calisuri). Click on over to french premiere’s website (premiere.fr) wait for the popup, yes, this time the popup is your friend and click on LA FETE A L’ANNEAU and download the party footage! Either RealPlayer or Quicktime! Joy!
Ringer Spy Elfstone sends along dome more great Cannes cast images! Orcs included! [More]
Remember the first Aragorn? Well, for about a week, Stuart Townsend was the man with the broken sword, he was quickly replaced by PJ et all, and the week he spent in NZ is described by Townsend himself as ‘a nasty nightmare’. Read more about what he has to say about it Cinescape. [More]
From: theglobeandmail.com
It may sound like hype, but the producers of the three Lord of the Rings movies aren’t losing any sleep over the hundreds of millions of dollars they’ve spent. They are betting they’ve made the next Star Wars. [More]
Thanks to A. Prosser for the tip!
The LA Times has a few articles about LOTR in Cannes. This one is mostly about the economics of hyping the films. Interestingly it mentions that journalists including Harry Knowles of AICN were flown to the LOTR wrap party last year as part of the hype-building exercise. One of the first things Harry said to me at that party was that he’d got there under his own steam. I hadn’t even asked.
More interesting is this article – “Times photographer Robert Gauthier offers his perspective on the Cannes Film Festival.” Don’t forget to click on the photo gallery.