The New York Times broke this story that one Peter Jackson will be a guest at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con.The director of the “Lord of the RIngs” trilogy of films has been a regular at the convention but only via video and has even said on recorded messages shown at the four-day celebration of popular culture that someday he would like to attend. He introduced material like the King Kong vs. three T-Rex scene from “King Kong,” and also said his “hellos” to LOTR fans during the production of the films. He will officially be on hand at this year’s event to talk about “District 9,” which he is producing for director Neill Blomkamp but he also has several other irons in the fire, such as producing “The Hobbit,” with Guillermo del Toro in two parts and working on “Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” with Steven Spielberg and preparing for the release of his own “Lovely Bones,” adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel. Continue reading “Who will be at SDCC 2009? Peter Jackson! (& TORn)”
Month: June 2009
Del Toro’s close to spilling the beans in this MTV Movies Blog interview.
Cliff ‘Quickbeam’ Broadway and his gang at slaveboyfilms.com were at Meltdown Comics recently and caught up with Guillermo del Toro to talk THE HOBBIT!!
TheOneRing.net catches up with Guillermo Del Toro at Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. We touch on all topics Hobbit – voice of Smaug, the movie split, and even TORn anniversary!
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Turbine has just released the latest batch of screenshots for the upcoming Volume II: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum, the next free content update for The Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria. The new screenshots illustrate the new crafting halls, which will be added with Book 8 in June. Continue reading “LOTR Online Volume II: Book 8: Scourge of Khazad-dum Screenshots”
Burbank, CA – The Falcon Theatre presents A Dog Named Fish production of Fellowship!, a musical parody of “The Fellowship of the Ring.” Written by Kelly Holden-Bashar and Joel McCrary with music by Allen Simpson, Joel McCrary directs nine of the world’s best improvisers in this Broadway style musical for Middle-earth. The entire original cast from the award-winning 2005 production is returning, which includes Brian D. Bradley (Mad TV writer), Lisa Fredrickson, Kelly Holden-Bashar, Edi Patterson (Groundlings, David Spade’s Show Biz Show), Steve Purnick, Cory Rouse, Ryan Smith (Mad TV writer), Peter Allen Vogt (Hannah Montana, Cath & Kim) and Matthew Stephen Young. Continue reading “Fellowship! The Musical, The Press Release”
On Tuesday, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge decided that a lawsuit filed by J.R.R. Tolkien’s heirs against New Line Cinema should be brought before a jury. In the suit, filed in February 2008, The Tolkien Trust claims New Line owes them at least $220 million of the profits collected from Peter Jackson’s film trilogy (a 1969 contract promises the author’s heirs 7.5 percent of gross receipts from films and other related products). The case will go to trial Oct. 19. ‘Lord of the Rings’ lawsuit: Judge sends case to jury