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”
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From ifmagazine.com: While sitting on the panel at San Diego Comic Con for 9, Elijah Wood was asked about THE HOBBIT. While he says he didn’t have any idea if he is involved in the production. A visit to the set was not something he was missing out on.
“I definitely planning on visiting [set of THE HOBBIT]. Because there are so many people from LORD OF THE RINGS that are going to be a part of it,” Wood says. “While I am not a part of it, I will go down to see them. I’m so glad that Guillermo [del Toro] is doing it. He’s perfect. If it is not Pete, he should be the one.” More..
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From his extensive Shakespearean roots to his knockout X-Men and Lord of the Rings roles as Magneto and Gandalf, Sir Ian McKellen boasts a prowess so refined that he’s now playing a role, The Prisoner’s power-hungry villain Number Two, previously inhabited by not one actor but 17. Yet McKellen insists this isn’t your grandmother’s Number Two. “There’s no point in wondering how am I going to measure up to the other Number Twos, because it’s just a different script altogether,” the soft-spoken knight explained to Wired.com after addressing an auditorium of TV reporters at Hollywood’s Universal Hilton earlier this year. “My man is called Number Two, because the character was originally called Number Two. But he is Number One.” More..
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Lord of the Rings Radio City Music Hall Website Now Live! FOTR Weekend in New York City: October 9–11, 2009
Visit: http://www.theradiocitylotrconcert.com
The full Lord of the Rings – Fellowship of the Ring Radio City Music Hall website is now live! Visitors are now welcomed to the website with the booming voice of Gandalf himself, Sir Ian McKellen, and are encouraged to sign up for newsletter updates!
The website also features forewords from LOTR Composer Howard Shore, Author Doug Adams, and the LOTR Fan Committee. Continue reading “Lord of the Rings Radio City Music Hall Website Now Live!”
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The folks over at Rottentomatos.com have produced a fun list of the most memorable movie wizards. Can you guess who is number one? The following ten appeared in the list, so we suggest making your own rankings and heading over to Rottentomatos for comparisons. Then, give us your thoughts on our message boards and help explain how Saruman didn’t make the cut. (Editor’s note: Tim the Enchanter was robbed!)
Wizard – film
Akiro – Conan the Barbarian
Dumbledore – Harry Potter
Gandalf – LOTR trilogy
High Aldwin – Willow
Lo-Pan – Big Trouble in Little China
Merlin – Excalibur
Miracle Max – The Princess Bride
Tim the Enchanter – Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ulrich – Dragonslayer
Wizard of Oz – The Wizard of Oz
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Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE; it was a mouthful even before the announcement of his knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List last month, shortly before his 87th birthday, for services to the dramatic arts. Unofficially, Christopher Lee remains the king of the franchises, the only common denominator between the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Star Wars series, the Bond films and the Hammer horrors.
By the estimation of most movie buffs Lee is the most prolific actor alive, possibly in cinematic history, with more than 350 big-screen credits to his name. Nor is there any sign of him slowing down. He plays a Spanish psychiatrist in the forthcoming Triage, one of four 2009 releases graced by his distinctive basso-profundo tones, if not always his aristocratic features (one of them is the animation Monster Mania, which he gleefully describes as “extremely funny”). More..
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