Mastercard are running a promotion where if you are a New Zealand resident and you use your Mastercard enough, you go in the draw to win a ticket to the world premiere. [More] Thanks to Hamish for the news.
Day: October 15, 2003
Tickets for our “Return of the Ringers” party for the world premiere in Wellington are selling briskly, so don’t miss your chance to celebrate this once-in-a-lifetime event with hundreds of other Lord of the Rings fans from all around the world! [More]
Also, LOTR Homestays project chief Phil Capper has given some thought to what we could do while the premiere is screening on Dec. 1st. [More]
The Hollywood Film Festival gets underway today in California. Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and Howard Shore are both to be honoured at the 2003 Hollywood Film Festival Awards Ceremony later this week. Bloom for ‘Hollywood Breakthrough Actor’ and Shore for ‘Music-In-Film’. [hollywoodawards.com]
Ian McKellen (Gandalf) has updated his ‘E-Post’ section of his LOTR site. Take a look! [More]
The Motion Picture Association of America, representing the major movie studios, banned sending DVD “screeners” of potential Oscar nominees to Academy voters. The MPAA says screeners can be used by pirates to make counterfeit copies. [More]
While I was at the fabulous Best of Both Worlds convention in Canberra just a couple of weeks ago (expect a full report later this week!), I had the privilege of being able to chat with Craig Parker (Haldir of Lorien). The feature (complete with mp3 snippets of the interview!) has been much delayed by the fact that I’m currently moving house, but I hope you’ll agree that it’s worth the wait! [More]