Dominic Monaghan was on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’ last night (Jan 30th), he was there to talk his hit show “Lost”, all the awards they’ve been winning, he also managed to sneak in a chat about Poi, Poo Poo and sex on planes. Take a look! (41.5MB MOV) [More]

Sean Astin was a guest on ‘The Tony Danza Show’, first of all, my apologies to anyone who had to watch this show for the first time simply to catch Sean Astin, Tony Danza is a HORRIBLE talk show host. His only saving grace is the fact that he seems to be a genuine fan of “24”. Thank God for my DVR (think Canadian TiVo) as I was able to skip past his inane chatter and get to the good stuff. Sean talks about “24”, and an illness that has hit him close to home, Bi-Polar Disorder. Take a look! (53.7MB MOV) [More]

The public gets its first look at The Lord of the Rings musical this week. That’s exciting for Tolkien fans, but nerve-wracking for the show’s creative team, who have their reputations — and a lot of their money — on the line According to the calendar, opening night for the most ambitious theatre project in history — the $27-million production of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings — is still seven weeks away. But for the show’s producers, cast and creative team, the March 23 world premiere at Toronto’s Princess of Wales Theatre is only a distant focus of attention. [More]

Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson needed to view what seven film crews were shooting. His solution: push the envelope on videoconferencing technology. In the pitch-black night of the New Zealand winter, Duncan Nimmo, information technology manager of 3Foot6 Ltd., and his two-man crew hoisted heavy equipment—including spools of military-grade fiber-optic cable, a battery pack, wireless computer modem and an eight-foot-high antenna—up Mount Ruapehu in Tongariro National Park. They had followed worn goat tracks up the slope, and were high in the clouds. A snowstorm threatened to blow them off the mountain. [More]

Director Peter Jackson, whose remake of King Kong was released at the end of 2005, is best known for his epic Lord of the Rings fantasy trilogy. The ground-breaking and hugely popular trilogy – released between 2001 and 2003 – elevated him to A-list status in Hollywood. The final installment, The Return of the King, swept the board at the 2004 Academy Awards, netting 11 gold Oscar statuettes, and ensuring that his name went down in history as one of the most successful directors. [More]

People often wake up in the middle of the night if jolted by a nightmare. But when A R Rahman suddenly woke up from one of his power naps a few months ago, he was humming a tune. “I had to write it down immediately,” he says, “I was afraid I might forget it.” When he later played the tune to director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, who was in Chennai for the Rang De Basanti recordings, Mehra insisted he wanted the tune for his film. “I told him I thought there was no scope for this kind of song in his film,” Rahman says, chuckling, “but he said he would create the situation. I thought, well, it’s his headache.” [More]