Ringer White Crow sends us the following from the UK Mail:
“Thieves have raided the LA home of Orlando Bloom, making away with belongings worth about £300,000. His vintage watches – including one worth around £150,000, jewellery and cash are thought to have been stolen, after burglars entered the Hollywood Hills home through a window.” [Complete Article]
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The plan was to be impartial and emotionless in the printed word and provide interested parties (hopefully you dear reader) all the facts and information from Peter Jackson’s un-press conference in San Diego as possible.
After all, he had 40 or so of us delighted to be trapped in a room with him in a small but luxurious hotel a few hundred meters from the convention center where the world’s biggest celebration of popular culture was taking place. It was the end of the first day of the four-day event and Jackson had swooped into town, showed off his first ever public screening of “District 9,” and then convened Geek Court. Continue reading “Peter Jackson speaks”
TORn friend Charles Ross continues to gradually conquer the world with his One Man Lord of the Rings show. He is set to perform at the must see Edinburgh Fringe August 6 -16. TheOneRing.net is seeking a a fan who can attend the event to give us a spy report. We also want to hear from anybody planning to attend in a LOTR costume. Ross performed at our ORC event several years ago and was magnificent, hilarious and surprisingly touching. Read all the details inside. Continue reading “One Man LOTR hits the Edinburgh Fringe”
Lyndomiel updates us on a story we ran July 27th ‘Fellowship Screening in New York’, Lyndomiel writes: The MOMA screenings in New York also include TTT and ROTK. August 7 – FOTR, August 8 – TTT, August 9 – ROTK At 7 pm, August 22 – LOTR all day – three screenings starting at 1 pm.
Special effects wizards Weta Digital have scored $5.8 million in Government funding for a research partnership. Science and Technology Minister Wayne Mapp said Weta’s investment would be on a basis of at least two-for-one. “It’s about growing new products and processes for export.” The joint partnership with TechNZ – the business investment programme of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology – is intended to accelerate the growth of New Zealand’s strong creative digital industry. More..
Ian Brodie, founding curator of the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, is taking up a new position as media and communications manager at the Hobbiton tourist attraction at Matamata, near Hamilton. Meanwhile, a proposed $10 million revamp of the Wanaka museum is on hold indefinitely. Mr Brodie (52) has worked at the museum since it was founded in 1992 by Sir Tim Wallis. More..