Going to Comic-Con 2004 in San Diego? Do you collect Sideshow/Weta Collectibles? Well, you only have a week to place your order for the exclusive Smeagol Bust that can ONLY be picked up at the Sideshow/Weta Booth (#2029). [More]
Month: July 2004
Ringer Shauna sends in this tidbit for Oahu Ringers: “Sunset in the Park” will be at Pearl Harbor for the weekend of July 24-25, and on the 24th, they will be showing ROTK on their huge 30ft outdoor screen! As an added treat for Billy Boyd fans, they will be showing “Master and Commander” the following night. This event is free and open to the public, and will be located at Richardson Field, across from Aloha Stadium.
Take a look at about two dozen more images from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival featuring Bernard Hill and Elijah Wood. Keep an eye out for Harvey Keitel and Colm Meaney too! [More]
Update from IMDB: Pregnant Hollywood beauty Liv Tyler is doing “fine” after she fainted in a restaurant on Saturday. The Jersey Girl star was dining with husband Royston Langdon, actor Mark Wahlberg and his partner Rhea Durham at The Pearl eaterie on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island, when she passed out at the table. After refusing first aid in the restaurant, five-months pregnant Tyler and Langdon visited Nantucket Cottage Hospital for a check-up. Her representative David Nesmith says, “Everything’s fine. She just over- extended herself on a most beautiful day. They took her vitals and determined that she had too much sun and too much of a good time shopping with the girls earlier in the day while Roy golfed. She and the baby are fine.”
There’s two great documentaries making the rounds of New Zealand during the film festival season – the Figwit documentary, about the elf extra catapaulted to unexpected fame via the internet, and the first part of Costa Botes’s very complete Making Of LOTR, which promises to be “a fuller and more playful appreciation of activity behind the scenes than you might have seen on the more formal guided tours provided by the DVD extras.” [More]
MAKING OF LOTR & FIGWIT Films: 2004 New Zealand International Film Festival
Festival Dates: Auckland: July 9 – 25 Wellington: July 16 – August 1
Wellington filmmaker Costa Botes, a long-time associate of Peter Jackson and his conspirator on “Forgotten Silver, assembled a small team in July 1999, three months before cameras rolled on principal photography for LOTR, to shoot and compile a behind-the-scenes video record. By the time the production of the trilogy finally ended late in 2003, they had over 800 hours of footage. In the first of the three documentary features to be cut from this material, there’s a much fuller and more playful appreciation of activity behind the scenes than you might have seen on the more formal guided tours provided by the excellent DVD extras.
FRODO IS GREAT….WHO IS THAT?
The future, when everyone would be famous for 15 minutes is far behind us: now all it takes is three seconds, which is how long Wellington actor and musician Bret McKenzie appeared as an extra in “The Fellowship of the Ring.” A glimpse of his elvish pout during the Council of Elrond scene enflamed the imaginations of Israeli woman, Iris Hadad, and English woman, Sherry de Andres. They met on internet message boards (where else?), coined the name ‘Figwit’, an acronym of ‘Frodo is Great…Who is That!!?’, and created the website www.figwitlives.net. Peter Jackson and the LOTR producers have taken a suitably indulgent view of the elf-hijack and this amusing magazine-style documentary culminates in the spectacle of McKenzie undergoing Figwit make-up once again for his one-line part in “The Return of the King.”
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