With her ethereal voice, Hayley Westernra seems so much a part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy that Middle Earth would sound empty without her. FARIDUL ANWAR FARINORDIN talks to this best-selling artiste. IF elf king Lord Elrond from The Lord of the Rings trilogy had a female singer in his enchanted kingdom of Rivendell, she would possess Hayley Westernra’s magical voice. It was her angelic voice and ethereal-sounding falsetto range that prompted music composer Howard Shore to feature her in The Lord of the Rings Symphony: Six Movements for Orchestra and Chorus’ concert series in the United States and Canada last year. [More]
Month: September 2005
From our friends at dvdanswers.com: Universal has announced a director’s cut release of The Frighteners which stars Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, John Astin and Jeffrey Combs. This single-disc special edition will be available to own from the 29th November this year, and should set you back around $26.98. I’m afraid we have no word on the extra material for this one yet, but we can confirm the feature runtime of 2 hours and 3 minutes. The film itself will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. The set itself will include over four hours of material, produced by Peter Jackson himself. [Pre-Order ‘The Frighteners (Director’s Cut)’ on Amazon.com today!]
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. – Hardin County will host the first U.S. screening of “Elizabethtown,” director Cameron Crowe’s nod to his Kentucky roots. The film, starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, will debut at an invitation-only screening on Sept. 17 at Movie Palace in Elizabethtown, WQXE-FM in Elizabethtown reported Friday. Bloom plays Drew, whose father dies while visiting family in Kentucky. While flying home, he meets Dunst’s character Claire, an airline hostess. [More]
Elijah Wood, who starred as the hobbit Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, told SCI FI Wire he was disappointed that he couldn’t coordinate a surprise cameo of hobbits for Jackson’s next epic, King Kong. “I think that early on we had conceived of maybe trying to get the hobbits out there, maybe Billy [Boyd], Dom [Monaghan] and myself to try and do some kind of cameo: get stomped on by a giant foot or something or maybe even dressed as hobbits way in the background or something,” said Wood, who is traveling with director Liev Schreiber at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting his latest little film, Everything Is Illuminated. “We never got to do it, because Dom was super busy on Lost, and Billy has been working,” Wood said in an interview. “So we couldn’t coordinate schedules to do it.” [More]
Keith writes: Sean Astin Will Appear On the National Telethon “Shelter From the Storm: A Concert For The Gulf Coast” tonight (Friday September 9) at 5pm-6pm PDT/8-9pm EDT.
Celebriel writes: The Saturday morning parade through the streets of downtown Atlanta, now in its fourth year, is a popular event among all convention attendees, drawing a large contingent of Ringers as well as fans of Star Wars, Star Trek, pirates, and many other book, film, and game franchises. Several thousand other Dragon*Con attendees and Atlanta locals fill the streets, cheering and photographing each contingent. [More]