A thumb-sucking boy, a bicycle cop, a pimp-turned-rapper and enough dysfunctional families to fill a therapist’s waiting room – all are coming to Park City in January for the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. So are films with such stars as Naomi Watts, Keanu Reeves, Laura Linney, Liv Tyler and James Woods. [More]
Category: LotR Cast News
Moffel writes: Billy Boyd will be on German TV Wednesday, Dec.1st. He will be on a show called “Die besten Filme aller Zeiten” (The best movies of all time) on Kabel 1(channel) at 20.15. The show will feature Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in its Top 20 and Billy will be there and talk about the experiences he made while shooting the movie in NZ.
Joey writes: I put together a pretty comprehensive report of Sean Astin’s book signing in Philadelphia on the 22nd. Bits of it are about my personal experience with friends and getting to meet him, but most of it is simply what I remember from his talk and other little details about the night. [More]
Melissa writes: I just wanted to let you know that a friend of mine, who knows I am a big LOTR fan, called to say that Viggo made a last-minute surprise appearance at a Michael Moore rally in Columbus, Ohio tonight (October 30th). [More]
The fake babies bundled into a bin suggests this is one serious television show. The waft of horse dung makes the West Auckland set smell like a Greek city from many years BC. Rotund warriors in fur uniforms, gaunt villagers in smocks, and fake baskets of fruit add to the atmosphere. One Hercules cast member who is used to filming in New Zealand is Sean Astin, who played Samwise Gamgee in The Lord Of The Rings. In Hercules, Astin is again cast as a faithful companion, playing the bard Linus. “The sidekick business has been very good,” he laughs. “It’s not hard work. [More]
The website movies.msn.com, it lists a British magazine’s poll of the greatest living movie stars over the age of 50. It has actors Ian McKellen and Christopher Lee in the top 20. [More]