ATHENS (Reuters) – The Olympic rings may be about join the Lord of the Rings in fueling a boom in the ancient but hardly fashionable sport of archery. Hollywood heart-throb Orlando Bloom and the bowman elves who invaded the screen in cinema’s version of the Tolkien trilogy has had youngsters all of a quiver; archery clubs around the world are reporting a surge in recruits. [More]
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Here’s a review from The Edinburgh festival: Last year, “New Zealand’s fourth most popular folk parody act” were still late-night Fringe underdogs. This year, they are greeted like rock gods. With their superior wordplay, virtuoso musicality and superbly gormless banter, they’ve taken comedy song to a whole new level. [More]
Peter Jackson’s movie King Kong, which begins shooting in Wellington next month, will be a reunion of the director’s dream team from The Lord of The Rings. King Kong’s crew includes cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, production designer Grant Major, art director Dan Hennah, conceptual designer Alan Lee, Weta special effects whizz Richard Taylor, visual effects director Alex Funke, visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri and composer Howard Shore. [More]
David writes: I thought that you might like to know that there are still tickets available for the Howard Shore LOTR Symphony at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 23rd September 2004. The performance on the previous evening of the 22nd was sold out immediately, and the second date was then offered and put on sale from the 3rd August. The Royal Albert Hall management tell me that they are concerned that the hundreds who were turned away from the first performance may not be aware that the second is being run the following evening and/or booking now. We want a full house! Can you publicise this? Howard Shore has kindly agreed to this second date, and we don’t want to let him down! [More]
Bruce Hopkins [Gamling] will be speaking briefly for the American Cinemathque prior to the showing of two of Peter’s early films, “Bad Taste” and “Meet The Feebles.” It’s at the Egyptian Theatre on 6712 Hollywood Blvd, on 9.45pm on Friday 20th.