Today, Turbine released a new batch of screenshots from the upcoming Volume 3, Book 2 of The Lord of the Rings Online, which will launch this fall. The update will make the game free-to-play for all and will introduce Turbine’s innovative new pricing model, as well as extend the award-winning story. The screens depict the new Character Generation experience and Locked Quest icons and can be found at the following ftp site. Here, you can also download previously released screenshots of the new LOTRO Store. Continue reading “New LOTRO F2P Screens – Character Generation, Locked Quests”
Year: 2010
Linuxelf writes: Attached is a pic of an interview from yesterdays paper with Costa Botes, one of PJ’s personal friends, he did the behind the scenes footage on the LOTR:EE sets on his past movies and his up and coming feature documentary Candyman… Jellybeans!!
Godron Campbell has an article summarizing the state of play from an NZ perspective: Given that successive governments have identified the film industry as a prime catalyst of the knowledge economy, you might have expected more local media attention would be being paid to the sale of MGM, which will directly determine whether and when The Hobbit gets made here, and by whom. Taking the director’s chair on this project has implications for Peter Jackson’s career in the wake of The Lovely Bones (a failure) and King Kong (perceived by some as a failure, even though it wasn’t a commercial flop) while the sudden departure of the originally designated director Guillermo del Toro from the project has added gossip fuel to a story that already had major implications for our skills base and also (locations! locations!) for our tourism industry. More..
Jo-Anna writes: Tolkien-based journal “Silver Leaves” Issue 3, has released as of Monday, July 12, 2010. The theme is Tolkien and other high fantasy artwork. We are very excited about getting this beautiful publication into folks’ hands. With contributors including Ted Nasmith, Jef Murray, Virginia Lee, Brian Sibley, Tom Shippey, Tim Kirk , Colleen Doran, David Wyatt, John Dickenson, along with many others, it could be almost considered a collectible. Ordering information is at www.whitetreefund.org. Continue reading “‘Silver Leaves’ Issue 3 Released”
July 14 (Bloomberg) — Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., the independent film and TV producer, has approached creditors of ailing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. to help shape a plan to acquire the studio, two people with knowledge of the situation said. Lions Gate Vice Chairman Michael Burns has been meeting in New York with investors who hold some of MGM’s $3.7 billion debt, according to the people, who requested anonymity because the discussions are private. More..
Darkchylde creator Randy Queen sends this in: Watch the 4:51 Clip of Darkchylde Movie / Weta Workshop test footage now! newsarama.com. Additional concept art and images at here.