SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – March 17, 2007 – MMO DB announces the official launch of its Lord of the Rings Online Database. The largest and most update to date Lord of the Rings Online Database on the Internet. With only a few weeks to go until the launch of the much anticipated Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, from Turbine, MMO DB is here and ready to serve. [More]
Month: March 2007
Linuxelf sends this in: Cate Blanchett is to star in the fourth Indiana Jones movie. The Australian actress will star alongside Harrison Ford, who is reprising his role as the intrepid archaeologist. It is unclear who Blanchett will be playing as details of David Koepp’s screenplay are being kept under wraps, although it is believed the 36-year-old star will have a major role. The current working title of the film is Fourth Installment of the Indiana Jones Adventures. [More]
From the West End to Broadway to Hollywood (via Coronation Street and Widow Twankey), he has been hailed as one of the finest actors of his generation. Now he is taking on the role that could define his career – Lear. The most curious aspect of Ian McKellen’s long-awaited debut as King Lear this week, in a production directed by Trevor Nunn for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, is how obvious a part it is for him. For decades, McKellen, 67, had not done the obvious. While contemporaries such as Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt and Michael Gambon made their lives before the cameras, McKellen stuck, for the most part, to the stage. [More]
Most studio presidents save the ink for their stars and directors. Not Bob Shaye, who now is a director of the kid flick “The Last Mimzy” and has been in the news for a near-death experience and a Middle-earth mess. Shaye is the controversial studio president of New Line cinema — the folks who brought you the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. He’s in a battle of bucks with director Peter Jackson over a proposed “Hobbit” film that Jackson wants to do after the studio pays him what he feels is more back-end money for “Rings,” while Shaye says he has been paid in full. The bottom line is someone else might direct “The Hobbit,” which has fans hopping mad. [More]
Today is Brad Dourif’s birthday! Brad was born on March 18th, 1950 in Huntington, West Virginia. That makes him 57 years old today! Happy Birthday Brad!
I was browsing through this month’s edition of ‘Fine Homebuilding’ Magazine when I came across an amazing discovery on the back cover: “Asked to design a fitting repository for a client’s valuable collection of J.R.R. Tolkien manuscripts and artifacts, architect Peter Archer went to the source—the fantasy novels that describe the abodes of the diminutive Hobbits.” [Read More]