To my delight, while flipping through channels on the TV tonight, I came across The Fellowship of the Ring playing on TNT. Sure enough, after checking their site, they’re doing another Lord of the Rings Marathon this weekend. The Two Towers will play tomorrow night (Saturday) at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). Then, as is their custom, they will play all three movies on Sunday. The Fellowship of the Ring will start at 11:30 a.m. EST on Sunday, culminating with The Return of the King at 7:00 p.m. EST. If you live in the U.S. and have cable or satellite TV, be sure and take this opportunity to revisit Middle-earth. Read More
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Dimrill Star writes: Just wanted to report that I saw an article In the Melbourne Sun today ,Thursday 26th Feb, stating that Viggo Mortenson will be visiting Melbourne and will be attending the Nova cinema on Thursday 26th March 2009.
Sean Astin (born February 25, 1971) is an American film actor, director, and Academy Award-nominated producer best known for his film roles as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, the title character of Rudy, and Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In television, he guest starred as Lynn McGill on the fifth season of 24.
Elenya writes: I thought this might be relevant for homepage. It’s Orlando Bloom helping out at the telethon we had here for the victims of the Victorian bushfires. Continue reading “Bloom Telethon Clip”
This isn’t an original complaint: Liking the book better than the movie is a middlebrow rite of passage. And novels are a constant, renewable source of stories for Hollywood, with ready-built brand appeal—from the kiddie franchises (Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Narnia) to the airport bangers (Da Vinci Code, the Bourne etceteras). Nor are these always bad movies. It turns out that good plots and an epic dimension translate well from page to screen. But the attempt to scale this model by making midsize movies from literary novels has been an ugly disaster. In our post-The Reader world, I can safely say that I’d rather personally digitize back issues of Talk magazine than see another movie based on Harvey Weinstein’s favorite book. Scott Rudin can fudge off, too. Great Book, Bad Movie
The team at Weta sent us word that they have just launched a cool new website. Here is what they had to say:
Weta has a brand new website! Please check it out at www.wetaNZ.com
It’s full of “never seen in public before” images from our projects over the last 20 years. We hope you’ll enjoy all these new features: Continue reading “Weta launches new website”