While Cate Blanchett was celebrating at the Academy Awards, one filmmaker was almost as delighted in a Sydney post-production suite. Director Rowan Woods has been editing the Australian film Little Fish, which stars the Oscar winner alongside Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Martin Henderson, Noni Hazlehurst and Lisa McCune. With much of her time taken up of late with the play Hedda Gabler and the birth of her second son, it is Blanchett’s only film yet to be released. [More]
Month: March 2005
FilmForce has posted some photos of Viggo Mortensen’s latest film ‘A History of Violence’. The thriller tells the story of a small town restaurant owner, Tom Stall (Mortensen), whose life is turned upside down by a considerable amount of unwanted media attention after he prevents an attempted robbery, and in self defense kills his attacker. The ensuing national television coverage draws the attention of mobsters who believe he is someone else. [More]
Spotted in The Hollywood Reporter apparently directly from AP: The Associated Press says that director Peter Jackson’s production company, Wingnut Films, has sued New Line Cinema over profits from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. [More]
Spotted in The Hollywood Reporter apparently directly from AP:
The Associated Press says that director Peter Jackson’s production company, Wingnut Films, has sued New Line Cinema over profits from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
The first LOTR film earned US$314.8mil at the North American box office and US$556.6mil internationally.
In the federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles, the company alleges New Line and its subsidiary, Katia Motion Pictures, failed to properly calculate revenue, including money from DVD sales.
The company also alleges that New Line Cinema gave favourable treatment to its affiliates in negotiating licensing deals for the movie. The suit seeks unspecified damages.
More news as we get it
Miranda Otto’s ‘Flight of the Phoenix’ is out today on DVD. Follow this link for a review and purchase options from Amazon.com [More]
LEWISBURG — Actor Sean Astin will give the talk, “There and Back Again; An Actor’s Tale,” at 8 p.m. tonight (March 1), in the Weis Center at Bucknell University. The talk, which is free to the public, is sponsored by the Bucknell Student Lectureship Committee. [More]