Celebrating its 15th year as an alternative to the annual Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance has announced Dominic Monaghan’s “I Sell the Dead” as the opening night film. The “Lord of the Rings,” star is featured in the film along with Ron Perlman (Hellboy). Continue reading “Dominic Monaghan’s ‘I Sell the Dead’ to open Slamdance”
Month: December 2008
Dominic Bernard Patrick Luke Monaghan (born 8 December 1976) is an English actor. He has received international attention from the success of playing Merry in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and his role as Charlie Pace on the television show Lost. Happy Birthday Dom!
Silvereel writes: I just want to make TORN aware of some current efforts going on to build a Tolkien inspired park in Spain. You can find more info on the official site of the project and a blog in which designer John Bently has posted his drawings for the park.
Like 2,735 actors before her, Cate Blanchett has had her name cemented on a sidewalk in Hollywood, outside of the Egyptian Theatre. Steven Spielberg introduced the regal beauty who said, “This is utterly incredible to me,” during the footpath ceremony.
You can search for news stories and find a lot of options but I thought the Sydney Morning Hearld’s website seemed appropriate for the native Australian. Read one account right here.
Long time reader Jorge of Korea sent in a great essay from Cimmerian.com which focuses on the writer’s hopes and expectations of GDT’s Hobbit movies.
Writer Steve Tompkins, “Too many of my waking hours are given over to thinking about the Hobbit films due in December of 2011 and December of 2012; no sooner is my attention directed elsewhere than the voluble and value-adding Guillermo del Toro is interviewed again and — sproing! – my thoughts ricochet back to the movies he’s about to make.”
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Forrest J Ackerman, the sometime actor, literary agent, magazine editor and full-time bon vivant who discovered author Ray Bradbury and was widely credited with coining the term “sci-fi,” has died. He was 92. Ackerman died Thursday of heart failure at his Los Angeles home, said Kevin Burns, head of Prometheus Entertainment and a trustee of Ackerman’s estate. Although only marginally known to readers of mainstream literature, Ackerman was legendary in science-fiction circles as the founding editor of the pulp magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland. He was also the owner of a huge private collection of science-fiction movie and literary memorabilia that for years filled every nook and cranny of a hillside mansion overlooking Los Angeles.
“He became the Pied Piper, the spiritual leader, of everything science fiction, fantasy and horror,” Burns said Friday.
Every Saturday morning that he was home, Ackerman would open up the house to anyone who wanted to view his treasures. He sold some pieces and gave others away when he moved to a smaller house in 2002, but he continued to let people visit him every Saturday for as long as his health permitted.
“My wife used to say, ‘How can you let strangers into our home?’ But what’s the point of having a collection like this if you can’t let people enjoy it?” an exuberant Ackerman told The Associated Press as he conducted a spirited tour of the mansion on his 85th birthday. More…