Lhunsarniel writes: Thought this might be of interest for Howard Shore’s upcoming performance of The Fly Opera c/o Landmark Theaters tie-in in Los Angeles. Landmark’s website is here. This is pasted from their website blurb: “LA Opera presents Howard Shoreʼs THE FLY, directed by David Cronenberg. Six performances only from Sept. 7-27. Film Club Members receive a 15% discount on tickets. Simply call 213.972.8001 and mention promo code 9650. (Offer subject to availability.) For more info, go to TheFlyTheOpera.com. For a chance to win a pair of tickets to THE FLY on Sept. 10, at 7:30, courtesy of LA Opera, you must answer the following question correctly: 1) According to THE FLYʼs website, whatʼs the name of the Canadian bass-baritone singer who will make his LA Opera debut in the title role of Seth Brundle?”
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TORn has been following the developments of the infamous Tolkien lawsuit for a long time. For those of you who’d like to get caught up in one fell swoop, Frodo Franchise author Kristin Thompson has posted an in-depth blog entry on exactly what is going on:
At last I’ve had a chance to go through the various documents that have piled up this summer in the lawsuit by the Tolkien Trust against New Line Cinema. I first summarized the suit on February 18 and followed that up on April 21. Here I’ll try to lay out the highlights of what has happened since then, month by month. Earlier this year I was hopeful that we would see a settlement in the case this summer, but that was obviously overly optimistic.
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Happy belated birthday to Alan Lee! Alan Lee (born August 20, 1947) is an English book illustrator and movie conceptual designer. He has illustrated several fantasy books, notably several works of J.R.R. Tolkien, such as the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Children of Húrin. Other books he has illustrated include Faeries (with Brian Froud), Lavondyss by Robert Holdstock (as well as the cover of an early print of this book), The Mabinogion, Castles and Tolkien’s Ring (both by David Day), ‘The Mirrorstone by Michael Palin, The Moon’s Revenge by Joan Aiken and Merlin Dreams by Peter Dickinson. He has also illustrated Rosemary Sutcliff’s adaptations of Iliad and Odyssey (Black Ships Before Troy and The Wanderings of Odysseus.) He has also done a cover painting for Mervyn Peake’s Titus Groan. He won the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration in 1993 for Black Ships Before Troy and the Best Artist Award at the World Fantasy Awards of 1998.
Martin sends along this link to an audio interview with RDT, take a listen: Jason Solomons talks to upcoming British actor Thomas Turgoose about his role in the new Shane Meadows film Somers Town and Xan Brooks quizzes Guillermo Del Toro on Hellboy II and his new project The Hobbit. Film Weekly Chats up Guillermo Del Toro
The Weta Cast – A Bug In The Workshop quickly became very popular across the world. Daniel and Magnus were blown away by all the helpful feedback and generous comments. In this episode, Magnus Hjert interviews Richard Taylor, Weta creative director and multi Academy Award winner about Wetas history with Halo 3 and about collecting. Daniel Falconer catches up with fellow designer Paul Tobin and talks about his work at Weta and about The Chronicles Of Narnia. Here is the RSS link (Needs compatible RSS reader, Firefox, Safari or IE7) or Click here if you prefer to use iTunes
Ambrose Heron of FILMdetail.com recently spoke with Guillermo del Toro about Hellboy II and they also discussed some interesting tidbits about the writing of the ‘Hobbit’ script:
I seem to have a never ending mine of reading material. I started by reading everything I could get my hands on that Tolkien wrote of Middle-earth. And then I started reading as many books as I can about Tolkien writing about Middle-earth. I want to get as familiar with the cosmology and the genealogy and the geography of that place as possible. Because for many, myself included, it has to become a real place again.
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