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From Movie.com: The Lord of the Rings and Elijah Wood have been nominated in multiple categories on Movies.com’s 2nd Annual Readers’ Poll. Encourage your fan sites to go and vote! Visit movies.go.com/fanpoll to cast your votes in categories devoted to individual movies, actors and other quirky topics until September 25. Then come back and visit on October 2nd to see the results! [VOTE]
JOE MORGENSTERN writes: This fall Peter Jackson will be in Pennsylvania directing “The Lovely Bones,” his screen version of the haunting Alice Sebold novel that inhabits both heaven and earth. For now, though, he’s still working on preparations for the film at Weta, his production facility in the modest Wellington suburb of Miramar. On a New Zealand winter’s day of brisk breezes and heavenly sunshine I visited him at Weta, which was named after a giant insect endemic to this country and has been fed by giant revenues from “The Lord of the Rings.”
I’d been told by his people that it was to be a social visit. Freely translated, that meant he didn’t want to sit still for yet another interview or profile, and understandably so. Translating more freely, I took it to mean he also didn’t want to discuss his legal disputes with New Line, the Hollywood studio that produced the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. All of that was fine with me, since I had no agenda, apart from hearing what the reigning master of fantasy might have to say about the movie business and its foreseeable future — maybe even its unforeseeable future — and getting some idea of the scope of Weta, which has become a one-of-a-kind cauldron of creativity, as well as raw computing power. [more]
WizardUniverse.com is reporting that Sam Raimi is definitely NOT involved with the film version of ‘The Hobbit.’ In a late report from Comic-Con about the ’30 Days of Night’ film, Sam Raimi answers the question about his involvement with Hobbit: “I am not involved. I respect the director [Peter Jackson] a great deal and he may do it some day, so no.” Why this specific information has not been reported from a well attended panel discussion at Comic-Con, we don’t know. We will try to confirm this information and report our findings ASAP! [Read Full Report]
UPDATE After checking around a bit with some sources, it seems Raimi is still potentially available to direct ‘The Hobbit.’ His answer to the question during the Comic-Con panel was intended to diffuse more ‘Hobbit’ questions and concentrate on the ’30 Days of Night’ questioning. One source tells us that he was in fact not involved with The Hobbit at that point, as there are ongoing talks about making the Hobbit happen. So his answer of ‘No’ is accurate.
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England: By imagining King Lear’s age as “four score and upward,” Shakespeare gave an end-of-career ring to a taxing role that he could hardly have written for octogenarian actors. After all, Richard Burbage, the star of Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, was only 39 when he created the part in 1606. And centuries later, in the 1960s, Paul Scofield was a memorable Lear at just 40.
Yet what makes many regard “King Lear” as Shakespeare’s greatest mature tragedy is its unforgiving portrayal of an old man raging against the gods as his power, sanity and life gradually expire. And since actors too suffer the agues of aging, it is always touching to watch a master of the stage take on the role in the autumn of his career. [More]
TORN Staffer Arwen writes: Tolkien Forever and TheOneRing.net invite all Los Angeles Ringers to come and join us for a weekend of special magnificence: Tolkien weekend 2007, with two fantastic fun filled events for Tolkien fans one and all!
First we have Tolkien Forever’s Annual Hall of Fire on Saturday Sept 22nd starting at 4pm in Glendora. It will be an enchanted evening filled with fun, food and fellowship. There will be music, art, poetry, and costumes are encouraged. The dinner is potluck, so please bring a dish to share. Please RSVP to Saystine@att.net for specific directions to the event.
Next we have TORN’s Annual Baggins Birhday Picnic on Sunday Sept 23 starting at noon in Griffith Park near the Carousel. There will be fun, games, trivia and prizes. The picnic is also potluck so bring something to share. RSVP to Arwen@theonering.net
So come join in the Fantastic Fellowship of Tolkien Fans!