WESTWOOD, MA – January 16, 2008 – Turbine, Inc. announced today that The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ was named one of the Top 50 games of 2007 by Game Informer Magazine, the world’s largest video game magazine dedicated to console, handheld, and PC gaming. Continue reading “LOTR Online Lauded by Game Magazines & Websites”
Month: January 2008
Anthony sends along word that tickets are now available for purchase for ‘Day Zero’ in New York. [MovieTickets.com]
The 2007 nominations for the eighth annual Whatsonstage.com Theatregoer’s Choice Awards, announced at a star-studded event at Café de Paris in London’s West End, included 7 nominations for The Lord of the Rings, now playing at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London. The Theatregoer’s Choice Awards is the only major theatre prize-giving decided by the public, so guess what? If you’ve seen the production, vote now! [Learn More] [Vote]
Apocalypse, here we come. Pittsburgh has landed “The Road,” a big-screen adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy best-seller of the same name that will star Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and a young Australian actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee. 2929 Entertainment, which is producing the movie, and the Pittsburgh Film Office yesterday confirmed rumors “The Road” will shoot in Southwestern Pennsylvania for eight weeks starting in late February to take advantage of the cold and snow. The film also will spend a week in Louisiana and a week in Oregon. [Read More]
The Lord of the Rings has remained popular since the 1960s, and became a hugely successful film trilogy. Tolkien’s themes of fellowship, sacrifice and the importance of the natural world are traceable to his experiences in the First World War, as well as to a love of folklore and of myth. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa and educated at King Edward 1V School, Birmingham, and Oxford. His mother, who inspired a love of fairytales and Roman Catholicism, died when he was 12. The Times Names 50 greatest postwar writers: Tolkien Comes in 6th
Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) has won the ‘Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture’ Golden Globe for her role in the Bob Dylan themed movie, ‘I’m not There.’ Congrats to Cate on this ground-breaking performance and the Golden Globe win! [Golden Globes]