Marisa from Chiron Publications writes: I would like to let you know that Chiron Publications has just published the English version of WHERE THE SHADOWS LIE: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings by Pia Skogemann. It is available by contacting www.lanternbooks.com.
Month: August 2009
Lyndomiel updates us on a story we ran July 27th ‘Fellowship Screening in New York’, Lyndomiel writes: The MOMA screenings in New York also include TTT and ROTK. August 7 – FOTR, August 8 – TTT, August 9 – ROTK At 7 pm, August 22 – LOTR all day – three screenings starting at 1 pm.
Special effects wizards Weta Digital have scored $5.8 million in Government funding for a research partnership. Science and Technology Minister Wayne Mapp said Weta’s investment would be on a basis of at least two-for-one. “It’s about growing new products and processes for export.” The joint partnership with TechNZ – the business investment programme of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology – is intended to accelerate the growth of New Zealand’s strong creative digital industry. More..
Ian Brodie, founding curator of the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, is taking up a new position as media and communications manager at the Hobbiton tourist attraction at Matamata, near Hamilton. Meanwhile, a proposed $10 million revamp of the Wanaka museum is on hold indefinitely. Mr Brodie (52) has worked at the museum since it was founded in 1992 by Sir Tim Wallis. More..
In the docu-style, sci-fi thriller “District 9,” which arrives in theaters Aug. 14, hundreds of thousands of aliens become stranded in South Africa after their massive spaceship comes to a standstill above downtown Johannesburg. Unable to fix the craft, this massive population of tentacle-waving, exoskeleton-sheathed aliens eventually outstays its welcome; they become reviled by humans for burdening the country’s welfare system even though all they really want to do is go home. Corralled into District 9 — a rubbish-strewn refugee camp that calls to mind Mumbai’s septic squalor, captured to striking effect in “Slumdog Millionaire” — they are segregated from the general populace by barbed wire. There, the film’s sentient yet excitable aliens are denied such basic necessities as running water and are denigrated by native earthlings as “prawns” for their resemblance to Sasquatch-sized shellfish. More..
Via WENN: Director Peter Jackson is hoping to give his upcoming Dam Busters remake a more “realistic” feel by making the movie in 3D. The Lord of the Rings moviemaker is working on a new version of the classic 1954 World War II epic, shooting the £24 million project in his native New Zealand. And he has revealed his is currently filming experimental three-dimensional footage and if the trial is successful, the whole movie will be given the special effects treatment. He says, “I think a World War Two bombing raid in 3D would be neat.”