Perilous Hobbit writes: I was watching Jeopardy on my local CBS station today when a catagory named “Recent Films” popped up. The $200 question in this catagory was “This person played ‘Gandalf’ in the 2001 movie ‘Lord of the Rings’. A contestant immediately buzzed in and replied “Ian McKellen”.
Month: May 2002
Sedat writes: I just read that Sean Astin (Sam) will be one of the voice actors in Squaresoft’s new game ‘Kingdom Hearts’, other voice actors are David Gallagher (“Seventh Heaven”), Hayden Panettiere (“Ally McBeal”), David Boreanaz (“Angel”), and Christy Romano (“Even Stevens”). [More]
No, this isn’t a course on how to write those annoying letters that you have to send to 15 people, it is a seminar on the making of chain mail much like the type used in LOTR. Ianthe tells us all about it! [More]
Orangeblossom Brambleburr writes: Just a reminder to all, Sean Astin will be a guest on ‘Dinner for Five’ on the Independent Film Channel tonight. The show airs at 5:00 PM EST [More]
Nancy sends us her full report with some great pictures from the last IMAX screening of LOTR:FOTR in Perth, Australia. [More]
With a certain level of secrecy, the top brass at New Line Cinema just got back from a visit to New Zealand. As the rumor has it, they were there for an update on the status of The Two Towers and to see a ‘rough-cut’ of the film. The information we have tells us they absolutely loved what they saw. Most seemed to agree that it was even better then Fellowship of the Ring. Hey, sounds good to me! We’ll investigate further and see if we can get any kind of official statement on the trip.