From hollywoodinsider.ew.com: While interviewing writer-director Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth) about his upcoming summer sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army, EW.com chatted him up about his involvement with The Hobbit. While no deal has been set —”We’re still in these protracted negotiations,” Del Toro says — the fantasy fiend did offer a few promising hints. Guillermo Del Toro Talks ‘The Hobbit’…Again
Month: April 2008
Vanessa “Saffron” Price, Online Community Representative for Turbine, Inc. writes: The dwarf Dwalin, son of Fundin and brother of Balin, was one of Thorin Oakenshield’s faithful companions on the Quest of Erebor. Now, he is stationed as the new Master of Thorin’s Hall. Learn more about Dwalin in the latest addition to our Exploring Middle-earth series! Characters of Middle-earth: Dwalin
Matt writes: I know you guys do updates on LOTR acting vets. Well Sean Astin found something else in New Zealand to love apparently because he is in a rugby movie about a famous American high school team called Forever Strong which will be released this coming fall. There are some YouTube clips online, I would love to see a news story or an interview with him about it. The website for the movie is foreverstrongmovie.com Continue reading “Sean Astin is ‘Forever Strong’”
From addict3d.org (via Kotaku): The developers of the original Neverwinter Nights, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and Blood Wake has closed its doors, ending twenty years of Stormfront Studios. We’d heard from a number of ex-employees over the past 24 hours who tipped us off to the closing, telling us that Stormfront prez Don Daglow announced during the studio’s weekly meeting that it would be shutting its doors forever, offering no severance and no further health benefits. The studio was said to have a staff of about 30 full-time employees at its closure. According to Next-Gen report on the shuttering, Stormfront reps confirmed the rumor, saying that its current project “made no revenue.” It’s unclear whether that project was the recently shipped The Spiderwick Chronicles, but we have an e-mail in with Stormfront to learn more.
Celebrity guests including Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen, rugby great Sean Fitzpatrick and Flight of the Conchords comedian Rhys Darby were among those at a memorial service for Sir Edmund Hillary at Windsor Castle today. New Zealand opera singer Jonathan Lemalu sang the aria Lord God of Abraham, described by Prime Minister Helen Clark as a “very special performance by one of our most talented young singers”. Miss Clark said a karanga by Mereana Hond was “very, very emotional” and “very moving”. Celebrities and friends attend Sir Ed memorial
Daily Variety reported that Sands would be leaving the company after many of his duties were usurped by the appointment of Mary Parent to head of MGMs worldwide motion picture group earlier this month. Read more here.