Folks from The Fellowship Festival write: For the Londoners amongst you, go and buy today’s copy of Evening Standard, London’s biggest newspaper and you can win the chance to enter a competition to be transformed into an Orc by Gino Acevedo from Weta Workshop at the forthcoming Fellowship Festival (28th – 30th August 2004, Alexandra Palace). Gino will be transforming three lucky readers, one for every day of the show into a gruesome Orc as part of his live make-up demonstration. For details on how to enter this once in a lifetime competition, go and buy The Evening Standard.
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universalmusicstore.com is auctioning off some interesting items for ‘Songs of Hope’. CanadianCricket writes: As of this time bids for this Return of the King/Into the West sheet music signed by Annie Lennox are only at $51! I have to believe that with a little help from exposure on TORN’s main page that much much more could be raised for this worthy cause! [More]
Matt in Minneapolis writes: Naomi Watts appeared on Leno Thursday night. She mentioned that she loves monkeys and then they brought one out for her. Then she mentioned meeting Fay Ray. She went with PJ and Fran to the top of the Empire State Building, and much higher than most people get to go.
It is proving to be the one book to guide them all. When Ian Brodie first approached director Peter Jackson with an idea to write a book based on locations from the Lord of the Rings movie sets around New Zealand, he wasn’t expecting to be given the green light. Now, more than 200,000 copies later, a larger coffee table version of the book has been launched. [More]
Director Peter Jackson – in the midst of preparing to shoot his version of King Kong in Wellington – said he felt “an enormous sadness” over the death of Fay Wray, star of the original 1933 film. [More]
Spies in Auckland report that Peter Jackson was seen there checking out King Kong location possibilities, but he also went into the Imax cinema there – reportedly this is because they are checking out the possibility of putting all three films into Imax format.