With rumors abound that The Hobbit will be shot in 3D, the current rage in Hollywood, some fans are concerned that the fad will take away from the film. What do you think?
Month: March 2010
As widely reported around the globe, the June start date for ‘The Hobbit’ shoot has been pushed (or more likely date corrected) to July. This has been updated on many websites including this one from the BBC. More..
Our good pal at WETA, Gary Hunt, sends in news about the release of his miniature pewter Dragons and Orcs. Check out the recently added Dragon, “Fire Drake” (unpainted kit) & “Fire Drake” with a pack of 3 (unpainted) 28mm Orcs on www.garyhuntminiatures.com. Continue reading “Big Gary Hunt (of WETA) Update”
Time Warner Inc. might offer as much as $1.5 billion dollars for MGM, according to Bloomberg News. What do you get for that? Well, a 4,100-title library, the James Bond franchise, the Pink Panther franchise, part of the upcoming Hobbit movie, some television channels, and the rights to the show Stargate. More..
From IGN: You may think that Lord of the Rings games are so 2003, but you’d be wrong. Case in point, Snowblind’s action RPG The Lord of the Rings: War in the North. It’s the first M-rated game for the property and the first to make use of materials from both the novels and the films.
The New Zealand Herald ran a story recently, which we reported on, about prop collection that cast doubt on Troika Brodsky and his extensive LOTR collection.
Not only did the paper originally spell Brodsky’s name wrong, it seems the information in the story is suspicious, including the reported $50,000 he paid for a well-documented Sting.
Collector blog www.originalprop.com has published an extensive piece that gives Brodsky his say and also documents in detail the authenticity of the prop (among others) that is the focus of writer Joseph Barratt’s original story. They even reference a TORn article about Frodo’s sword. A complete read is pretty convincing and casts a lot of doubt about the original article and a possible attempt by Barratt to hook readers with a sensational headline.
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