Viggo Mortensen has been doing a bunch of press at the Venice Film Festival for a new film called Far From Men — a story about two men, a schoolteacher and a murderer, caught up in Algeria’s 1954 war for independence — that opens in France in January next year.
In another tangential link to Wellywood, the score is composed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, who also did the soundtrack for the Peter Jackson-produced documentary film West of Memphis. Read below for an early review from Indiewire, but if the idea of Mortensen speaking French appeals, this is one you probably won’t want to miss. Thanks to Ringer Davidsenex for the heads-up. Continue reading “Viggo Mortensen’s Far From Men screens at Venice Film Festival”
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Ringers in Brisbane will be gearing up for Oz Comic-Con, which starts tomorrow at the Convention and Exhibition Centre at South Bank.
In addition to a host of other fandom celebs, Ringers will be able to catch Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Stephen Hunter (Bombur) and Dean O’Gorman (Fili), who will be signing autographs and doing photos with fans. Continue reading “Oz Comic-Con starts in Brisbane tomorrow”
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There’s fun for all ages at TORn’s table at DragonCon – one of our youngest visitors yesterday was baby Stephen, who happily posed as Sam in our photo op. (Thanks to his parents for sharing the pic with us!) Continue reading “DragonCon is in full swing!”
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…and TheOneRing.net will be there! This convention is possibly the biggest fan-based party of the year, and this year promises to be a particularly good one for Tolkien fans. Here’s what’s on offer:
Continue reading “DragonCon is almost upon us! Aug 29 – Sept 1, Atlanta”
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August is a busy month for birthdays in the LOTR/Hobbit movie-verse. So from all of us here at theonering.net, we’d like to wish everyone a very Happy Birthday.
Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Sylvester McCoy, John Noble, Alan Lee, John Howe and Richard Armitage!”
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As you saw in part one of our booth tour our friends at Weta Workshop had a lot of fantastic pieces at Comic-Con 2014. Here in part two you get a little video tour I did on my iPhone during the Con. I hope this little video tour helps add to your excitement of the great things to come to our collections with what we saw during Comic-Con.
Continue reading “Collecting The Precious – Weta Workshop Comic-Con 2014 Booth Tour Part 2”
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