Hobbit director, Guillermo del Toro, has left the following message on our message boards:
In a few days there will be a BIG announcement (big for me, at least) that is not-Hobbit related. BEFORE anyone starts wondering the usual “how does he have time?, Is this detracting form The Hobbit?” etc It is a project that started over 2 years ago, before The Hobbit and will render fruits in the mid-term, not intruding on my Hobbit duties. Rest assured. The key letter is “D”
Best
GDT
Sounds intriguing! We’ll update the site as soon as we know what the special announcement may be. In the meantime, take some time and join TheOneRing.net message board community! [GDT Post]
From screencrave.com: It’s been a while since we’ve seen or heard anything regarding the Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg collaboration, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn. Over at the Spanish movie site Estrenosdecine, they’ve posted a new set photo featuring the two directors hard at work. From the looks of it, the pair are seriously submerging themselves in the computer generated world that they’ve created for the film. More..
A foray into the world of hobby modelling has established Peter Jackson as New Zealand’s own lord of the wings. The film-maker’s latest side venture will be unveiled to the Wellington public when scale aeroplane models from his new model company, Wingnut Wings, go on display at the National Scale Models Expo this weekend. The models all World War I aircraft went on sale on the company’s website about four months ago, after years of planning and work. More..
PALO ALTO, Calif. — From a Silicon Valley office strewn with bean-bag chairs, a group of twenty-something software engineers is building an unlikely following of terrorist hunters at U.S. spy agencies. One of the latest entrants into the government spy-services marketplace, Palantir Technologies has designed what many intelligence analysts say is the most effective tool to date to investigate terrorist networks. The software’s main advance is a user-friendly search tool that can scan multiple data sources at once, something previous search tools couldn’t do. That means an analyst who is following a tip about a planned terror attack, for example, can more quickly and easily unearth connections among suspects, money transfers, phone calls and previous attacks around the globe. Palantir’s software has helped root out terrorist financing networks, revealed new trends in roadside bomb attacks, and uncovered details of Syrian suicide bombing networks in Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with the events. More..
From ifmagazine.com: Peter Jackson has a knack for picking winners. And he did so with Neill Blomkamp and DISTRICT 9, the awesome aliens land on Earth and are forced into a slum movie. THE LORD OF THE RINGS director was only a producer in this film but you can see his imprint and his vision of things being larger than life and full of consequences outside of what we are just seeing on the surface are there. The film too has been a smashing success finding its way to the hearts of many movie-goers through word-of-mouth and some simply amazing visuals shown in the many trailers. More..
Elijah Wood visited The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien to promote his new film ‘9’ and spoke a bit about Comic-Con, the ‘Hobbits,’ Yo Gabba Gabba, being mistaken with Harry Potter and more! (Thanks to Ringer Lossefalme for the heads up. A note to parents, some of the advertising on Hulu.com is a bit post-10pm programming, if you know what we mean!)
