Rookan sends us this image of New Line’s bid for Peter Jackson’s Oscar win. Take a look!
Month: January 2003
In a TV interview in Paris last month, Peter Jackson, director of “Lord of the Rings,” dropped a bombshell on Japan’s movie industry. Tokyo Confidential surveys popular vernacular magazines — often “salacious, libelous and utterly unreliable” — to discover what the Japanese are “really thinking.” He said he had received a flood of complaints from Japanese fans of his film over serious problems in the translation of its Japanese subtitles. [More]
Belmont University students will be graded on their knowledge of Middle-earth this semester when Dr. Amy Sturgis begins teaching a class exclusively on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. [More]
Peregrine writes: The article is from “The University of Waterloo Magazine”, Winter 2003. The university is in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. [More]
Peregrine writes: The article is from “The University of Waterloo Magazine”, Winter 2003. The university is in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Think of them as supersized grandchildren of the CD or as genetically enhanced offspring of the DVD. In a few years, for just a few hundred dollars, consumers will start snapping up next-generation digital recording systems that will employ exotic blue-violet lasers to etch 13 hours of video–more than six full-length movies–onto disks the size of standard music CDs. [More]