The folks from EMPIRE Magazine send this along: Empire Magazine has launched the ultimate Lord of the Rings challenge, three fiendishly hard quizzes spanning the entire trilogy. Only for the die-hard fans, these ‘How Well Do You Know’ quizzes are not for the faint hearted, but if anyone has what it takes to get to the top of the leaderboard, we’re guessing TheOneRing.net readers do! [More]
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From The Hollywood Reporter (via superherohype.com): 20th Century Fox has picked Academy Award-winning visual effects house Weta Digital to oversee the upcoming film Fantastic Four: Rise of The Silver Surfer. The studio tapped Weta to create a state-of-the-art version of the Marvel Comics character Silver Surfer. Noted character actor Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) will provide performance and movement references for Weta, in a process similar to the way Andy Serkis portrayed Gollum in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. The voice casting of Silver Surfer has yet to be determined. The Hollywood Reporter says Weta has developed an advanced computer-generated animation process that employs motion-capture techniques updated to add further dimensionality to the liquid-metal hero.
A ton of interesting new films are out on DVD this week. Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Check out some TV goodies like ‘Brotherhood – S1’, ‘One Tree Hill – S3’ & ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway? – Season 1, Vol. 1’. Be sure to check out the ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street: Infinifilm’ Collection and a vew DVD sets of Gene Autry films. There are quite a few DVDs on the Iraq war and 9/11, check out ‘Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers’, ‘Parallel Lines’, ‘The Ground Truth’, ‘Combat Diary: The Marines of Lima Company’ & ‘9/11: Press For the Truth’. Personally I’m excited about ‘Kids in the Hall-Best of’, ‘Transformers Armada: Season 1 – Part 2’, ‘Voltron, Vol. 1: Defender of the Universe’ & ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway? – Season 1, Vol. 1’. Check out the whole list here! [More]
A repeat airing of Orlando Bloom’s recent appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ airs tonight on ABC. You can either stay up late to catch that interview or simply download it from us! Take a look! (35MB MOV)[More]
Los Angeles, CA – September 19, 2006 – Celebrated indie rock band The Apples in Stereo have been signed to a new label and will release their first album in five years, the pop triumph New Magnetic Wonder. Scheduled for release on February 7th, New Magnetic Wonder marks the debut album to be distributed on Elijah Wood’s newly formed Simian Records (co-released and distributed via Yep Roc Records/Elephant 6/Redeye Distribution). [More]
Fraser writes: The New Zealand screenings of “John Howe–There and Back Again” are the Asia Pacific Premiere for this Swedish/Swiss documentary which features in the 2nd DOCNZ International Documentary Film Festival that starts in Wellington this week. The two screenings at Wellington’s Paramount Theatre are at 12.30pm Tuesday 26 Sept and at 8.40pm Thursday 28 Sept. When I bought a ticket to each yesterday (Saturday, Wellington time), I was told very few had sold! [More]