djdeathskiss (via The Hollywood Reporter) sends this in: Liv Tyler has signed to star in Rogue Pictures’ Strangers for writer-director Bryan Bertino, says The Hollywood Reporter. Mandate Pictures’ Nathan Kahane and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Doug Davison are producing. Strangers is a suspense thriller revolving around a couple in a remote suburban house who are targeted by three dangerous masked strangers. Tyler will play the female half of the couple. The male role is out to actors, as are the roles of the home invaders. Production will begin in the fall with an eye for an October, 2007 release.
Month: August 2006
Joe Letteri, visual effects supervisor on ‘King Kong’, will be among several high-profile guests speaking at The Tate Modern as part of a series of lectures on digital art taking place in September and October 2006. Hosted by Supernatural Studios and sponsored by Autodesk and Escape Studios, the lectures will examine the development of visual effects and computer animation over the last 20 years and explore their future potential. [More]
TheHutt writes: “Mr. Bliss”, a children’s story by J.R.R. Tolkien, has came to life in Russia. The uncommercial society “Tolkien Text Translation” has produced an animated film based on Tolkien’s illustrated book. The animation was created from the original drawings by the Professor himself. [More]
TheHutt writes: “Mr. Bliss”, a children’s story by J.R.R. Tolkien, has came to life in Russia. The uncommercial society “Tolkien Text Translation” has produced an animated film based on Tolkien’s illustrated book. The animation was created from the original drawings by the Professor himself.
Mr. Bliss, a weird but lovable man with a love for top hats, goes out to buy a motor-car. After trading it in for his bicycle, he decides to visit his friends, the weighty Dorkinses. However, on his way, he is getting out of the frying pan into the fire: numerous car crashes, an encounter with three bears and a night hunt in the woods…
The first screening of Mr. Bliss outside Russia took place on TolkienThing 2006. Another one will be taking place on November 10-12th in Fulda, Germany, at the Ring*Con 2006.
Why is your inbox full of offers for pills? Our correspondent finds the answer in The Hobbit. Bilbo Baggins tried to sell me some Viagra last week. It was a surprise: J. R. R.Tolkien never recorded hobbits’ pharmaceutical pleasures as extending any further than a pouch of tobacco, but there he was in my e-mail inbox alongside an offer for “CIjALIS, AMBjIEN, VALjIUM, VjIAGRA”. “When they had dried in the sun, which was now strong and warm, they were refreshed, if still sore and a little hungry,” one Mokosh Bauder wrote to inform me. “Soon they crossed the ford (carrying the hobbit), and then began to march through.” [More]
Thanks to Flinch for the link! It’s impossible to divorce Middle-earth II from its controls, and the developer’s success in allowing players to select their forces, move them around the battlefields, manipulate the camera, and successfully manage the game’s structures in order to build an army is a crucial victory. The controls are complex enough to allow players to select individual units, all units on the game screen, and entire armies, but simple enough that novice players won’t need to memorize the combinations of trigger pulls and button presses in order to successfully wield their armies. [More]