Sammy writes: Dominic Monaghan will be attending the London Film and Comic Con at Earls Court, (Warwick Road in London). The con dates are September 1st and 2nd, 2007.
Xoanon here, other interesting guests include: HAYDEN PANETTIERE & ZACHERY QUINTO (Heroes), PATRICK STEWART, BILL NIGHY, MICHAEL BIEHN, WILLIAM MAPOTHER (Lost), BILLY WEST, NANA VISITOR, ANDY HALLETT, KENNY BAKER, RAY PARK & GARY KURTZ. [londonfilmandcomiccon.com]
Category: LotR Movies
The Government has boosted sweeteners to big-budget movie-makers such as Peter Jackson to head off a threat from across the Tasman. The sequel to the Government’s existing grant scheme for big-budget screen productions, unveiled yesterday, follows moves in Australia to lure such productions with generous subsidies that outstripped New Zealand’s. But the move has raised fears of small, local film-makers being left out in the cold – and questions about the Government propping up big-name Hollywood players such as Jackson. ACT leader Rodney Hide said the Government would lose a bidding war with Australia and giving money to established blockbuster film-makers was a case of “robbing Paul to pay Peter”. [More]
Rachel, Web Content Manager for Weta, sends this along: Tomorrow, Weta Workshop’s Senior Prosthetics Supervisor Gino Acevedo will be interviewed on National Radio’s Nine to Noon programme. Gino will be interviewed by host Kathryn Ryan on National Radio’s Nine To Noon programme about his work on King Kong and his little known conservation projects. The interview will broadcast on NZ Tues 17 July at 10.05am. Take a listen to the archived interview here.
Liv Tyler: Star in Ascendance: Her First Decade in Film by Thomas A. Christie. A new study of the films of Hollywood star Liv Tyler, charting all of her film career up to the present – including Armageddon (1998), Cookie’s Fortune (1999), One Night at McCool’s (2001) and the Lord of the Rings movies (2001-03). This is the only in-depth exploration of Liv Tyler’s films available anywhere. [More] [Order from Amazon.co.uk]
ORLANDO BLOOM has a confession to make. When he was first sent the script of the David Storey play In Celebration, he “didn’t know who David Storey was”. And the ignorance, it seems, was mutual. “No, I’m afraid I hadn’t heard of Orlando,” the playwright happily confesses. As Bloom prepares to star in a London West End revival of Storey’s work, this parallel blankness is perhaps unsurprising, these two theatrical collaborators coming from contrasting branches of culture. The 30-year-old actor has never appeared professionally on stage, having spent his whole decade as an actor in epic films, including Troy and Kingdom of Heaven, with a special line in high- octane trilogies: as Legolas in The Lord of the Rings, and as Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean. [More]
LONDON (AFP) – “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Orlando Bloom disappointed thousands of female fans, insisting Wednesday he would not strip off in his London stage debut, despite fans’ hopes he would follow the lead of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe. Bloom will be treading the boards in the West End as one of the leads in David Storey’s play “In Celebration,” which opens Thursday. But despite rumours on Internet fan sites that he would bare all, as Radcliffe did in a recent London production of Peter Shaffer’s “Equus,” Bloom, 30, said that his modesty would remain intact. [More]