Anthony sends along word that tickets are now available for purchase for ‘Day Zero’ in New York. [MovieTickets.com]
Category: Elijah Wood
Huge news is breaking as we head into the weekend. The MTV Movie Blog has posted a feature with Elijah Wood, Frodo, discussing his willingness to go back again for the ‘Hobbit’ films. Besides Elijah’s enthusiasm for reprising his role as Frodo, he seems to imply that the majority of the LOTR cast can expect to participate in the ‘in-between’ Hobbit film. Jump over to MTV.com now for the complete story! [Read More]
Elijah Wood is getting drafted … again. In last year’s multicharacter drama “Bobby,” he played a young man in 1968 called up to fight in Vietnam. And in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Wood was the reluctant, hairy-footed center of the Fellowship formed to strike a blow against Sauron and save Middle Earth. And now in “Day Zero,” opening Jan. 18, Wood is called up to fight a new war. He’s one of three friends who get the dreaded – some might say long-delayed – letter in the near future where conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have prompted a reinstatement of conscription. Chris Klein costars as a young lawyer whose career is flourishing stateside and can’t see any reason why he should have to ship out, and Jon Bernthal is a cabbie who believes it’s their duty to go to combat for their country. Look out for ‘Day Zero’
The talented Colleen Doran wrote to let us know that she posted to her blog about her newest sketch cards. In this series, Colleen did sketches of Sandro Kopp, Sean Bean, Karl Urban, and Elijah Wood. And I must say, I am a bit jealous of Sandro.
Lith writes: Just wanted to drop you a line to provide some info about a couple of LOTR actors who participated in a charity project to benefit children’s charity in the UK. Back in 2005, an organization called Celebrity Handprints collected inked handprints from over 100 celebrities, and now their first collection of many of them is available for purchase. Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom both appear (at least their handprints do) in the book; both actors’ handprints are also being offered as limited edition early release prints. The charity was featured in this recent article in Ireland Online.
To view the site for the book, with links to several celebrity handprints, go to this link.
The direct links to Elijah’s and Orlando’s handprints are, respectively here,
and here.
Perhaps some fans out there would be interested in owning the book or one of those limited release handprints, while contributing to aid for children at the same time.
Jerry Vanderstelt was in the right place at the right time. But it wasn’t luck that landed him there, it was hard work and making his own opportunities. Today this good fortune and hard work culminate when the artist releases a lithograph celebrating “The Fellowship of the Ring,” film released in 2001.
At the San Diego Comic-Con 2001, Elijah Wood walked around the mammoth floor of convention floor drinking in the celebration of popular culture and keeping his eye out for hints of how the world might accept the movie he had worked on that was about to overwhelm popular culture, the first film in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings.”