From the NZPA: The Council of Trade Unions will seek legal advice on challenging an Ombudsman’s rejection of its bid to get a copy of the Crown Law opinion on last year’s industrial dispute over the filming of The Hobbit. In a final decision, Ombudsman David McGee rejected appeals from the CTU and Radio New Zealand and said the legal opinion should remain secret, Radio New Zealand reported. Last year, the Government said the Crown Law opinion confirmed that by law, film producers could not enter into union-negotiated agreements with actors who were independent contractors.
Month: July 2011
We’re just about to begin our weekly Hall of Fire chat on TORn’s IRC server (#thehalloffire on irc.theonering.net) and delve into a character study of Bilbo Baggins. If you’d like to join us, we’ll be kicking off in around 15 minutes.
We’re done! Thanks everyone for coming along!
Peter Debruge of Variety revisits The Lord of the Rings Trilogy a decade later and shares his thoughts:
It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years since a humble B-movie director named Peter Jackson came along and reinvented the fantasy film genre. Before tackling Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Jackson was best known as the guy who had made “Dead Alive,” “Heavenly Creatures” and a couple of foul-mouthed puppet pics — a background that shows in the approach he took to “The Lord of the Rings.”
Revisiting “LOTR” a decade later — thanks to the three-week series of theatrical screenings tied to the extended-cut Blu-ray release — I was struck by how remarkably well the three films hold up. If anything, they’ve gotten better with age, which I never would have guessed at the time they bowed.
NYMag.com has a new interview up with Elijah Wood who’ll be reprising his role as Frodo in The Hobbit, and perhaps the most interesting bit is his response to the question about when he’ll be going down to New Zealand to shoot his scenes.
Here’s what Elijah said:
October. I’m going to the U.K. first to do some shooting, but then I’m going down in October for the New Zealand part.
Not to jump to any conclusions, but does this potentially mean Sir Christopher Lee will be shooting his scenes in the UK this October? Discuss over at our message boards. The entire interview can be found over at NYMag.com.
Thanks to Ringer spy Patrick for the heads-up.
Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins. Only 3 feet tall.
Bilbo. Bilbo Baggins. Bravest little hobbit of them all.
Having traumatised you all with Leonard Nimoy’s atrocious verse, this weekend Hall of Fire will be looking at the many different facets of Bilbo Baggins. From the respectable and all-too-comfortable Hobbit we meet at the beginning of that self-same book, to the clever, brave individual who faces down both Smaug and Thorin Oakenshield at the end of the Quest for Erebor, what is Bilbo’s essential character?
Reluctant burglar, ring finder, spider tamer, dragon taunter, barrel rider, author, translator and historian, what makes him tick?
What makes him different from, say, Frodo or Sam? Is his essential character, in fact, closer to the carefree attitude of Pippin and Merry?
Join us tomorrow (Saturday July 2 at 6pm EDT) in #thehalloffire on irc.theonering.net when we’ll discuss these questions and many others as we look at “the bravest little Hobbit of them all”. Continue reading “Hall of Fire this weekend: Bilbo Baggins!”
On this episode of Hobbit in 5, we talk about more pictures from the Hobbit, Howard Shore will be honored at the World Soundtrack Awards, Liv Tyler wants a cameo in The Hobbit, and Elijah Wood’s interview about returning to Middle Earth. We’ll also take a look at Smaug for our character study!
Thanks to our executive producers: Rodney E. Eaton, Josh Long, Kelly Lombard, Krista Cherée Hulsman, Jeffrey Campbell, and Steve Aultman
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