Light of Earendil writes: I want to let you know that there is going to be a showing of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy in Austin, Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar August 21, 2005. Chef John Bullington is preparing a menu of all 7 hobbit eating times. The link to buy tickets is not up yet, but when it goes up it will be at drafthouse.com at the South Lamar location. I hope you can get the word out. Thank you! [More]
Month: July 2005
A man who built models for The Lord of the Rings can sue for unfair dismissal, New Zealand’s Supreme Court has ruled. The court ruled that model maker James Bryson was an employee of production company Three Foot Six, rather than an independent contractor. As such, he is now entitled to pursue personal grievance claims after being made redundant when the models unit was downsized towards the end of filming. [More]
Ian McKellen has made the list of Britain’s Finest Actors. The List also includes Daniel Day-Lewis, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier & Peter Sellers. The full results of the poll will be broadcast on British TV on July 11. [More]
Two Wellington comedians have landed their own radio series with the BBC. Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie (AKA Figwit), as musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, will have a six-part series on BBC Radio 2 from September. The series is being created and narrated by Welsh comedian Rob Brydon, who caught Flight of the Conchords’ shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year. Brydon, best known in Britain for comedy television talkshow The Keith Barret Show, has appeared in several films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Shaun of the Dead and this year A Cock and Bull Story with Steve Coogan. [More]
NEW YORK – If Miranda Otto ever wants to remember what she looked like when she was pregnant, all she has to do is watch “War of the Worlds.” “Everyone says you should get a photo taken of yourself while you’re pregnant,” said Otto, who was three months pregnant while filming the Tom Cruise summer blockbuster. “I’ve got a film. It’ll be nice for my daughter, too, to look at one day. She was in it.” [More]
Henry Gee writes: I’ll be talking about my book email) Tickets: £9.95, to include talk, discussion, meze and a glass of wine. So you get dinner *and* a show. Tickets are selling like hot lembas so booking is essential.