A world’s only Dr Grordbort’s Victorious Mongoose Concealable Ray Gun from multi Oscar winning Weta Workshop with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by legendary Weta Workshop founder Richard Taylor and the designer of the Victorious Mongoose Greg Broadmore has been gifted to the New Zealand charity Medicine Mondiale to auction as a fundraiser – with the auction going global. Weta Workshop Ray Gun to be Auctioned for Charity
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The GDT media train continues to roll on! Guillermo del Toro is doing a press tour for his first book ‘The Strain’ and interviews or articles about him are popping up everywhere! Take a look at these links, apologies if they are doubled, repeats or otherwise. If you see an interview or article we missed drop us a line!
Hobbits, monsters and CSI vampires
MTV Rough Cut: Guillermo Del Toro
Del Toro Wanted to Do “The Wire” Meets Vampires
Del Toro seeks to return evil to vampire fiction
Guillermo del Toro Talks About The Hobbit
Del Toro: New ‘Hobbit’ Game Will Have to Wait
CBC Radio ‘Q’ Interview
On the WETA site: What are John Howe, Richard Taylor and Brigitte Wuest doing in Weta’s sculpting room?
Find out at Comic Con in San Diego on 22 July! More…
It seems everybody is talking about GDT, ‘The Strain’ and ‘The Hobbit’ right now but movie critic Steven Rea writes in: Just wanted to make you aware of the Guillermo del Toro interview piece that I did, and the reference to your (very cool) site. Click here for the story.
zer05um writes: Just a note to alert you to the fact that this year PJ and GDT co-selected the wildcard entrants to the 48Hours Furious Film-making conest here in NZ. Check out www.48hours.co.nz
The New York Times broke this story that one Peter Jackson will be a guest at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con.The director of the “Lord of the RIngs” trilogy of films has been a regular at the convention but only via video and has even said on recorded messages shown at the four-day celebration of popular culture that someday he would like to attend. He introduced material like the King Kong vs. three T-Rex scene from “King Kong,” and also said his “hellos” to LOTR fans during the production of the films. He will officially be on hand at this year’s event to talk about “District 9,” which he is producing for director Neill Blomkamp but he also has several other irons in the fire, such as producing “The Hobbit,” with Guillermo del Toro in two parts and working on “Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn,” with Steven Spielberg and preparing for the release of his own “Lovely Bones,” adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel. Continue reading “Who will be at SDCC 2009? Peter Jackson! (& TORn)”