John Howe, The Lord of the Ring’s legendary illustrator will be in the Bravo! Studio with novelist Caitlin Sweet in conversation about his work with LOTR, the creative process as an artist and sharing stories from his work with Alan Lee, Peter Jackson, and others. Completely free but you MUST reserve your seat by Friday @5pm! Seating is limited. You will not be permitted entry without prior phone reservation. Please call 416-964-0011 to reserve seating. June 26 7:30-10pm @ Bravo! (downtown Toronto) THIS WILL BE FILMED FOR FUTURE BROADCAST.
Month: June 2006
Sinead writes: Did you know that EA has partnered together with Zboard to sponsor a “Master of Middle-Earth” sweepstakes?? The grand prize is a mind-blowing Raptor Gaming PC from Velocity Micro that is all tripped out with products from Athlon, AMD, Asus, NVIDIA, Corsair – plus a 19” LCD monitor from NEC. And it just wouldn’t be complete without a Zboard Gaming keyboard with The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II Limited Edition keyset. Hurry the sweepstakes closes July 18, 2006! [More]
Big news related to ELF took place this week as Elijah Wood’s representation told us that he has booked a film shoot during ELF and will not be able to attend! But fear not – Frodo’s trusty companion, Samwise Gamgee, aka Sean Astin, has graciously agreed to fill the opening in the program. Those fans who booked only for Elijah will be contacted soon with options including switching those tickets to ones for Sean Astin or getting a refund. ELF 2006 takes place in Secacus, NJ (Just outside of NYC) July 28th-30th. For complete details, check out Creation Entertainment’s website. [Click Here]
A stage musical of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings will cost a staggering £25 million to launch in London next summer, the show’s producer revealed yesterday. The costs, driven up by high-tech wizardry, will make it by far away the most expensive – and high-risk – musical staged in the West End. The record is thought to be held by the long-running The Lion King, and while its producers, Disney, have refused to disclose costs, they are widely believed to have been around £10 million. Kevin Wallace, who has spent five years planning the Tolkien stage show, announced yesterday that it would open at the 2,100-seat Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, next June. [More]
Orlando Bloom is slated to be a guest on ‘The Tonight Show with Jay Leno’. He is there to promote a little known film called ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans Chest’. ‘The Tonight Show’ airs on NBC at 11:35PM.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – There hasn’t been a new “Lord of the Rings” movie in nearly three years. But that hasn’t stopped New Line Home Entertainment from preparing new DVD versions of all three films in the franchise, which generated more than $1 billion in U.S. theaters and won 17 Academy Awards. Three “The Lord of the Rings Limited Edition” sets, one for each movie, will roll out August 29. Each two-disc set will include the original theatrical and the extended versions of the film, along with Costa Botes’ feature-length documentary on each film’s creation. [More]