The music in the Lord of the Rings has been voted the greatest movie soundtrack of all time. A poll by Classic FM gave 44,000 listeners the chance to vote for their favourite movie tunes. [More]
Month: May 2005
World famous – in New Zealand and sometimes out. Grant Smithies casts a critical eye over NZ pop culture’s most significant figures. People say the best way to understand any country is to become familiar with its great painters, poets, novelists and composers. Not true. To find out how any nation really ticks, go directly to its popular culture…Whenever the conversation turns to local movies, one film-maker bestrides the local landscape like King Kong, namely Peter Jackson. [More]
If you’re a Star Wars fan, pop along to #moviechat on the TORn IRC server and join in our ‘Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi’ viewing party! We’ll be starting in just under an hour and then watching the film together. [Join the chat!] (Once in the main channel, type /join #moviechat )
If you’re a Star Wars fan, pop along to #moviechat on the TORn IRC server and join in our ‘Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back’ viewing party! We’ve just started and will be around watching the film together for the next couple of hours! [Join the chat!] (Once in the main channel, type /join #moviechat )
In the first week of sales toward the February 2006 Toronto world premiere of the musical The Lord of the Rings, theatregoers snapped up $7 million (Canadian) in tickets, a spokesperson for the Toronto producers confirmed. Tickets to the lavish stage musical went on sale May 15 – nine months before its premiere. Interest from U.S. theatregoers was reported as intense. [More]
Weta Workshop/Digital (the production company that created the visual effects for the Lord of the Rings trilogy) is seeking Digital Artists to work on upcoming feature films, including King Kong which is current in post production. Weta Digital seeks Keyframe Animators, Motion Editors, Modelers, Shader Writers, Matte Painters, Character TDs, 3D Texture Painters, Compositors, 2D Paint Artists and VFX Production Coordinators. [More]