How do Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, the two titans of pop culture, collaborate on the new 3-D motion-capture version of Tintin? With lots of high-tech wizardry. Spielberg, who’s directing the first instalment, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, recently wrapped 32 days of performance-capture shooting in Los Angeles. Producer Jackson travelled from his New Zealand home base to Los Angeles for rehearsals and the first week of shooting, and then appeared via an elaborate video-conferencing set-up for the rest of the shoot, using a specially designed iChat-type system in which the Kiwi filmmaker can see everything on the set in real time and simultaneously talk with Spielberg. The film is scheduled to hit theatres in 2011. More lines to learn
Month: April 2009
TheOneRing.net readers are being offered free tickets to see an amazing bit of LOTR theater this weekend in the San Francisco area of California.
TORn friend Charles Ross absolutely slayed audiences at our own OneRingConvention (ORC) a few years ago with his outstanding and hilarious “One Man Lord of the Rings.”
We loved the show before and after ORC and he wrote us to say that he is performing it again for two nights and would love to offer, while supplies last, FREE tickets to TORnados who can make it to the Zeum Theatre in Berkley this Friday (April 10) and Saturday (April 11) at 8 p.m.. Read inside for full details. Continue reading “Exclusive FREE ‘One Man LOTR’ tickets for TORn readers”
David writes: For those fans who missed out on tickets for the Fellowship of the Ring live London Philharmonic Orchestra/HD performance in London this month (and there were many), I have some important news.
If you (like me) have always regarded The Two Towers as in fact the greatest of the three rings, then you should know that the public sale of tickets for TTT (LPO/HD) performance go on sale on the 13th April 2009. The performance dates are 23 and 24 April 2010.
Continue reading “Missed Out on Tickets for London Philharmonic FOTR? Get TTT Tickets Now!”
When Michele Maro became captivated by “The Lord of the Rings” movies, she never imagined she would one day be walking around in the Shire, touring Hobbiton and peeking into hobbit holes. Those are all fictional places, but fans can visit the closest thing possible in New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed and where specially designed tours will take visitors to some of the stunning locations featured in the movies. Maro, who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, spent two weeks in New Zealand in 2003 being guided around forests, national parks and farms, exploring sites that she didn’t think were real when she first saw them on the big screen. More…
Dear Tom DiChiara and moviefone.com, we got you…April Fools! From moviefone.com: ‘The Hobbit’ May Be a Trilogy – Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro clearly don’t care that ‘The Hobbit’ is merely one book. The filmmaking powerhouses are reportedly negotiating to triple fans’ pleasure by spreading the ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel over three movies rather than the initially planned two. We can already see the tagline: “Three films to rule them all.” And we dig it. Moviefone.com Fooled by TORN
Diane writes: Cinemaworld celebrates the 6 year anniversary of The Lord of the Rings trilogy with an exclusive screening of all three The Lord of the Rings films on April 25th & 26th, starting at Noon. See these ground-breaking films, up on the big screen again, on film, in all their glory. Cinemaworld is also proud to announce that we have managed to reserve the Extended Editions of Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, showing you more of the movie than ever before! The fun starts at noon with 20 minute intermissions between film. Join us to relive one of the greatest feats in modern movie making. More…