A 10-metre-high wall of King Kong-sized building blocks has gone up to create a backdrop for Peter Jackson’s latest NZ$200 million movie. Filming is due to start next month on Jackson’s remake of King Kong and work is two-thirds finished on a state-of-the-art $12 million sound stage in the Wellington suburb of Miramar. [More]

Boston LOTR Exhibit
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The Museum of Science’s new exhibit about the making of the ”Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy pulls back the curtain to expose the realities of director Peter Jackson’s fantasy filmmaking. But it was the fans’ fantasies that reigned at the exhibit’s midnight opening yesterday where many of the hundreds of dedicated ”Rings” followers — many who had come from across the United States and from other countries — were dressed as hobbits and elves, displaying their affection for wizardry of all kinds. [More]