Andy Serkis was given a special citation for his work on King Kong by the Toronto film critics this week. Congrats Andy!
Category: Hobbit Movie
December 19, 2005 – The Hobbit still faces legal hurdles before Jackson can make the missing film in the Lord of the Rings saga. However, there’s still a chance we’ll get to see Bilbo’s first journey in a few years’ time. Peter Jackson explained the Hobbit situation to the media during the King Kong premiere gala: “MGM used to own The Hobbit and then MGM got bought by Sony a few months ago, and so now Sony have the rights — or half of The Hobbit rights, and New Line have the other half. Now, New Line and Sony have to talk to each other and I don’t think that anyone’s going to call me until those rights issues are resolved. That’s entirely between them, so…” [More]
Isilien Taureva writes: I think you’d be interested to know that on Page 59 of today’s “Los Angeles Times Calendar Weekend”, under “My Favorite Weekend”, there’s a very brief interview with Andy Serkis, in which he tells what his favorite weekend is.
The folks from Project-Monaghan write: we are excited to announce an auction of an awesome Lord of the Rings, Return of the King poster autographed by Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, and John Rhys-Davies. All proceeds from the auction will go to TreePeople LA, www.treepeople.org, an environmental care non-profit organization that Dominic Monaghan supports. [More]
Edward Douglas writes: Most people will know Andy Serkis from…No, I can’t do it. I just can’t write another of my usual generic intros for this particular interview, since I’m beyond frustrated with how little respect Andy Serkis gets from his peers. For goodness sake! Let’s give this talented actor an Oscar already! He helped create one of the most fully realized CG characters on film, as Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, but now, he’s given humanity and true emotion to a giant CGI gorilla in Peter Jackson’s remake of the monster movie classic, King Kong, and yet, he’s probably going to be ignored again. It’s bad enough that he plays the title role in the movie, yet ends up getting fourth billing. [More]
Access Hollywood was all over the red carpet premiere of King Kong in New York City. In this clip from the show they ask Andy Serkis to do a little ‘Gollum vs. Kong’ and Andy quickly corrects them and says it must be Gollum vs. Smeagol vs. Kong…an interesting thing to imagine! Take a look. (11.4MB MOV) [More]