The Grand Rapids Symphony will be performing ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’ Live October 16th 2009 at 7pm in the DeVos Performance Hall. From their website:
“Take this once in a lifetime journey through Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
Experience the epic film Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring like never before with live orchestral accompaniment. Watch the visually stunning full-length film projected above the orchestara as they perform the unforgettable score live!”
Thanks to Ringer Jaimie for sending us the link! [More Information]
Meredith Woerner from io9.com writes: While $30 million seems like a lot, it’s pretty small when half of District 9’s main characters had to be CG-ed into each frame. We talked to producer Peter Jackson about the benefits of that budget and working with aliens. More..
The plan was to be impartial and emotionless in the printed word and provide interested parties (hopefully you dear reader) all the facts and information from Peter Jackson’s un-press conference in San Diego as possible.
After all, he had 40 or so of us delighted to be trapped in a room with him in a small but luxurious hotel a few hundred meters from the convention center where the world’s biggest celebration of popular culture was taking place. It was the end of the first day of the four-day event and Jackson had swooped into town, showed off his first ever public screening of “District 9,” and then convened Geek Court. Continue reading “Peter Jackson speaks”
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.
Edward let us know about a screening of ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 6th and the 22nd. Take a look! More..
Quickbeam and MrCere give us the latest news on Peter Jackson’s screening of District 9 and his closed door internet journalist press conference. Those two guys are lucky! Take a look at the shirts behind them too…I want one of each MrCere!