Call to all artists! Yes, that includes all fans!

The 3rd annual Lord of the Rings and Fantasy art show is being held in conjunction with the One Ring Celebration. We encourage all interested artists to participate, whether they be professional or amateur. You can help make this show as wonderful as the previous shows by participating! You can find the rules and entry form at this link (scroll to the art show announcement).

If you’re interested in participating, please download the entry form. All artwork inspired by Tolkien is welcome from paintings to jewlery to pottery. Mail in artwork is accepted. If you can’t attend ORC, you can still be part of the celebration!

Paul Davids writes: My film, THE SCI-FI BOYS, premieres Wednesday on Sci Fi Channel at 8 pm in Los Angeles if you have a direct feed cable system such as DISH NETWORK (otherwise it will screen at 11 pm, the time it screens in NY – please check your schedules). Same situation with mountain time and central time – could show up in your schedule at 9 pm mountain time and 10 pm central time, or it could show same time as it does in NY (11 pm).

Synposis: Legendary all-stars of cinema bring to life the evolution of science-fiction and special effects films from the wild and funny days of B-movies to blockbusters that have captured the world’s imagination. This is the story of the Sci-Fi Boys, who started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Forrest J Ackerman’s FAMOUS MONSTERS magazine and grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream.

A ton of interesting new films are out on DVD this week. Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Some very cool aimation out like ‘Amazing Screw-On Head’, ‘Hellboy: Sword of Storms’, ‘Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo’ & ‘Last Unicorn’. The big releases of the week are ‘Hollywoodland’ & ‘Flags of Our Fathers’. Be sure to check out the new Bond re releases ‘For Your Eyes Only’, ‘Goldeneye’, ‘Goldfinger’, ‘Licence to Kill’, ‘Spy Who Loved Me’ & ‘Thunderball’. Personally I’m interested in ‘Amazing Screw-On Head’ & ‘Hellboy’! Check out the whole list here! [More]

Ashlee & Rachel Scott from M.A.R.S. Productions write: We put together a new Middle Earth Idols promo, which includes our celebrity guest judges and music by Emerald Rose. The actual film trailer will be online by mid-February. [More]

e.sinchew-i.com has posted a few images from the LOTR exhibit that recently moved to Filmpark Babelsberg in Potsdam, eastern Germany. [More]

The year began with unconfirmed rumors that The Lord of the Rings: The White Council had been canceled. The open-world role-playing game, which had been unveiled last summer, was slated for a holiday 2007 release on the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. It was to be the latest game from Electronic Arts based on Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which was inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s best-selling fantasy novels. Today, during a postearnings call, EA CFO Warren Jenson confirmed that The White Council is not canceled–but that work on it has been indefinitely suspended. “The Lord of the Rings product is back in development in terms of being on hold,” he cryptically told an analyst who asked whether or not the game had been canceled outright. [More]