Cate Blanchett has branched into fashion. Australian news site News.com.au is reporting that the Rings star has landed a six-figure deal to model for New York designer label Donna Karan. [More]
Month: August 2003
The folks from Serious USA write: Here is an exclusive Gollum CD Card that will be available in the US alone as a giveaway when The Two Towers DVD is purchased from certain San Goody’s, Sun Coast + Media Play stores. The card contains; imagery from the film + behind the scenes, a video interview with Andy Serkis who played Gollum, e-mail postcardz, the movie trailer, a screensaver + wallpapers and of course Gollum’s biography as well as excerpts from the Howard Shore score. [More]
Irascian writes: Collectormania 4 announced at 7pm their special events. They are having two screenings on the Saturday and Sunday (FOTR & TTT) with cast members having a one hour panel before each screening. Tickets are £20 each and include “exclusive souvenir giveaway”. No details on which guests are attending which screening, which is a bit naughty but with numbers limited (last time only 120 tickets were available) and heavy demand because of the presence of Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Dominic Monaghan, Andy Serkis, Lawrence Makoare, Sala Baker and Bruce McIntyre. The phones were permanently engaged just after 7pm but they are accepting bookings by email too (although they may have sold out by now). [More]
connections between the Ents and Great Birnam Wood in Macbeth; the belief that the undead inhabit grave-mounds and the origins of certain names. “I invented the name, Hobbit, and can say no more about it than it seemed to me to fit the creatures I already had in mind…or rather it generated them; they grew to fit it”.
I hope this is of some interest to you. Keep up the good work!
Tina writes: The theatrical version of TTT will be on sale in Serbia & Montenegro from Aug. 26! Last year both DVDs came out around three weeks later than in most countries and the movie premiered nearly a month later. This bit of news gives hope that the EE DVD and ROTK will also appear earlier.
Albertine writes: Bern, the (small) capital of Switzerland, is currently hosting a medieval week with the Saint- Georges company. Illustrators John Howe (whom I could not speek to as he had gone to town) and Gerry Embleton are there as well. [More]