The Grand Rapids Symphony will be performing the LOTR Score at the DeVoss Hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan tonight (October 14th). Sadly the event is sold out, but follow this link for more cities and showtimes! [More]
Month: October 2005
Sean Bean also has a movie out this weekend, the critically acclaimed movie ‘North Country’. Take a look at the Yahoo! listing for theatres and showtimes. [Showtimes USA] [Showtimes CAN]
The film we seem to have been speaking out for months has finally hit the big screen today, Orlando Bloom’s “Elizabethtown”. Click here for showtimes. [Showtimes USA] [Showtimes CAN]
Reports are coming in that Howard Shore has been replaced by James Newton Howard to score the King Kong film. From Soundtrack.net: Sources in the film music industry have indicated to SoundtrackNet that Howard Shore’s score to Peter Jackson’s King Kong has been dropped. Hired to replace him is composer James Newton Howard. Due out on December 14, the film requires over two hours of music, which must now be written over the next few weeks.
There is no indication currently as to why Shore’s score has been replaced, and all indications are that most – if not all – of the score has already been recorded in New Zealand. The replacement score will be recorded in Los Angeles. More details to come as we get them.
UPDATE: Sadly it seems the story is true as the PRNewswire confirmed the story in a press release by Universal. [More]
Meghan, Online Community Manager for The Lord of the Rings Online writes: This week, Jill “Dwynna” Harrington has written a dev diary about setting up a character model for animation, with a Ringwraith as her example. [More]
TORONTO When the stage version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” opens here in spring, the show is expected to feature about 18 songs, a cast of 55 and about 12 million investors. Literally. That’s because, in an act of unprecedented governmental showmanship, Ontario’s officials – on behalf of their 12 million citizens – have signed on as investors for the show, which is expected to be one of the most expensive ever. Taking on a role traditionally played by impresarios, idealists and other theatrical gamblers, the provincial government will contribute some 3 million Canadian dollars, or about $2.5 million, of the show’s $23 million budget, betting that the production’s global appeal will justify a unique, and risky, public-private partnership. [More]