Ian McKellen has signed up to provide the voice for the magical character Zebedee in Pathe’s movie version of the U.K. children TV classic The Magic Roundabout. He joins a voice cast that includes Robbie Williams, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Kylie Minogue and Bill Nighy. [More]
Category: Hobbit Cast News
Fletch writes: In the British football magazine, FourFourTwo, there is an article/interview with Elijah Wood, his support of West Ham, and work on ‘The Yank.’ [More]
The Hollywood Reporter Announced details about the Cate Blanchett starrer “Little Fish,” by Australian production unit Porchlight Films. Penned by Jacqueline Perske and directed by Rowan Woods, “Fish” follows Blanchett as a former drug addict trying to rebuild her life. Nguyen will take on the role of Blanchett’s ex-lover, a onetime druggie-turned-stockbroker. Martin Henderson, Hugo Weaving and Sam Neill also star in the film, set in the Little Saigon section of Sydney’s suburbs.
Philippa writes: I was in Prague the other week and picked up a copy of ‘Premiere’ magazine which had Elijah Wood on the cover and an interview inside. I didn’t scan the whole interview (as it’s in Czech!) but have done the cover and pages with pictures on. [More]
At last Saturday night’s performance of Hedda Gabler at the Wharf Theatre there were numerous signs and two verbal announcements before the play and after interval warning patrons to check their mobile phones were turned off. But the warnings were not enough. A Spike operative reports that about five minutes into the second half one patron’s phone started to ring. To the tut-tuts of the audience, he reached into his bag to turn it off, but fumbled and the phone went flying onto the stage as the audience gasped. [More]
FrodoFan sent along these images Elijah Wood (looking very much like Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker) visiting fans at a children’s hospitalin Prague. [More]