Peter Jackson’s restored version of the only film taken of the Anzacs at Gallipoli in 1915 will have its New Zealand premiere at a documentary film festival in Wellington today. The film Heroes of Gallipoli screens at the DOCNZ Documentary Film Festival. Jackson, a World War I buff, approached the Australian War Memorial two years ago to see if technology developed by Weta Digital could be used to restore archival film. The 20-minute film included Wellington Battalion soldiers. The original nitrate film was destroyed in 1967, and prints were scratched, fuzzy and low in contrast. [docnzfestival.com]
Month: September 2005
Today is Kiran Shah’s birthday! Kiran was born on September 28th, 1956 in Nairobi, Kenya in 1956. That makes him 49 years old today! Happy Birthday Kiran!
Viggo Mortensen will be on Comedy Centrals’s ‘The Daily Show with John Stewart’ tonight (September 27th). He is there to promote his latest film ‘A History of Violence’ which opens wide this Friday. Although expect topics to range from ducks to politics and back again.
KONG is coming is the title of Wired Magazine’s King Kong special feature in the October issue. Jonathan Bing details PJ’s Wellywood setup and goes deeper into the origins and series of events that led to him making Kong Kong, and our special Production Diaries on KongisKing.net. Be sure to check out ‘Gorilla Filmmaking’, an amazing series of photos featuring some of the major players at WETA/Big Primate/3 foot 6 and all the other companies under Peter’s banner. Some very familiar faces are seen here, it is a great photo spread and a great article. Check out the photos in our scrapbook, and to read the article go to your local newsstands now or order WIRED online. [Images] [Wired Magazine]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC will postpone Wednesday’s scheduled premieres of 8-9 p.m. comedies “George Lopez” and “Freddie” for one week to make room for a rerun of the season premiere of “Lost,” which will lead into the drama thriller’s second episode at 9 p.m. Coming on the heels of its Emmy win for best drama, “Lost” opened its second season last week with an all-time high of 23.4 million viewers. ABC said it decided to repeat the “Lost” season opener after receiving calls from viewers who missed part of the episode because of hurricane-related news pre-emptions.
You might mistake Elijah Wood for any other music geek flipping through the CD racks in the Loop’s Rock Records. With an armful of albums (The Warlocks, Roky Erickson, Black Mountain, Johnny “Guitar” Watson) he even sounds like one. “Have you ever heard of Dead Meadow?” the 24-year-old asks one tattooed salesman. “Have you heard of Wolf Mother, that band from Australia? Very Blue Cheer.” [More]