TheHutt writes: On 17 and 18 November there will be two concerts of the “LOTR Symphony” in Moscow in the State Kremlin Palace. The Russian National Philarmonic Orchestra will be participating in the concerts. The orchestra will be conducted by Howard Shore himself, and the show will include a choir of 100 voices, video effects with designs by Alan Lee and light effects on the stage. [Tickets]
Month: July 2004
Andy Serkis is most famous for providing the voice and movement for Gollum in Lord of the Rings. He will soon start work on King Kong, but did he act like a monkey when he was 12? [More]
John writes: John Noble will be a guest speaker at the Sourgapes film festival on Monday 5th July. It is a fun, grassroots affair which has become really popular in the last couple of years. Kind of off-off-Broadway. [More]
AP – The box office success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy has made him very rich. Sales of merchandise linked to movies are set to make the New Zealand-based director even richer. Jackson saw his wealth balloon from $NZ70 million ($A63.76 million) last year to $NZ184 million ($A167.6 million) this year, according to a list of rich New Zealanders published in a National Business Review magazine survey published. [More]
Mel writes: The first part of the new Swedish translation of Lord of the Rings is done. Erik Andersson, the translator, has worked for two years on this first part and many of the old names are gone and have been substituted with new names, more fittingly translated. The new Swedish title of Lord of the Rings -The Fellowship of the Ring will be “Ringarnas herre – ringens brödraskap” and will be out this autumn.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Time Warner Inc. is in preliminary talks to buy legendary film studio MGM, a move that could spark a bidding war with Sony Corp., a person familiar with the situation told CNNfn Thursday. But Sony, which has been negotiating to acquire MGM since late April for roughly $5 billion, is still very much in the running, people close to the negotiations told Reuters. [More]