With just one month to go before ELF kicks of in Orlando, Florida, we’d like to remind you that we are still taking submissions for the Art Show. Please check the convention website for the appropriate forms here or email the Art Show staff at artshows@gmail.com
Month: July 2005
Eileen from SFTrilogy writes: Exciting New Developments for SF Trilogy Screening of the LOTR movies benefiting C.A.N. (Cure Autism Now). Alan Lee is lending a helping hand to the SF Trilogy Screening of the LOTR movies. Lee has made an exclusive T-shirt design for this event. Anyone who buys a VIP ticket will get the Limited Edition Event Shirt FREE. There will be raffles, door prizes and a costume contest. For those who would like to make a donation to this worthy cause, but cannot attend, “there is still hope”. We will have a special raffle prize JUST for those who make a donation by buying a ticket but not attending. For those who buy a VIP ticket, but are unable to attend, you will still receive the exclusive Alan Lee Event T-shirt. Proceeds for this event will go to the nonprofit organization of C.A.N.. Seating is limited, so for more information and to buy your ticket to this FANtastic event, go to sftrilogy.org
The “boom and bust” stemming from New Zealand’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy has spelled doom and gloom for a global maker and seller of fantasy figures for battle games, Games Workshop. The company’s chief executive Tom Kirby told the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh: “For the last two years we have been concerned that, for Games Workshop, the Lord of the Rings business might create a bubble effect which might not be sustainable. “We have to confess we underestimated the impact which this would have on our sales and profits in the last quarter of this financial year,” he said. [More]
Sean Astin is a dad, again! Kim, along with a TON of other Ringers, sent this in today: I found this report about Sean Astin’s wife giving birth to their third daughter, Isabella Louise. [More]
TORONTO (AP) — Tales starring Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Nick Nolte and Robin Wright Penn are among the movies looking to grab Hollywood’s attention at North America’s biggest film festival. Nine additional movies were announced Tuesday for the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 8-17. All the films will be seeking distributors at the festival, a prime spot for studios to acquire movies as well as show off key fall releases and Academy Award contenders. Blanchett stars with Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving in Little Fish, about a woman who becomes involved in a menacing drug deal while trying to raise money to open an Internet cafe. [More]
VALPARAISO “You can’t pull this off,” Andrew Jones said to Zachary Gibson, when Gibson asked him to take part in a movie version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.” Jones, a huge Tolkien fan, told Gibson, “You can’t make those costumes. You can’t film this. You don’t have the money.” With a video camera he got for his 16th birthday and $2,000 of his own money, Gibson proved Jones wrong. It took him two years, but the 18-year-old managed to bring Tolkien’s classic to the big screen — or rather to DVD. [More]