Fed-up DVD fans decry it as ”double dipping,” ”triple dipping,” and right on down the line to quintuple, sextuple and septuple dipping. What are they on about? The increasingly common habit movie companies have of releasing a bare-bones DVD of a film a few months after its theatrical debut, then revisiting it ad nauseam with special editions, extended editions, limited editions, alternate-version editions, and sometimes just plain re-released editions…But right now, the multiple-dip debate is raging around Peter Jackson’s Oscar-festooned Lord of the Rings trilogy, as New Line Home Entertainment reissues The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King in cool, transparent-window slip-covered cases (or you can get all three in one package) with nearly 6 hours of predominantly new behind-the-scenes footage. [More]
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Lady of Light writes: I watched the Memorial Service for Steve Irwin on animal planet and David Wehman (Faramir) read a poem called “The crocodiles are crying” Not sure who got to see it. It brought tears to my eyes. He did a great job. Nice tribute to his fellow Aussie.
From the folks at dorkoftherings.com: See DORK OF THE RINGS photos and our video report from Dragon*Con 2006. Director genius Jack Peterson interviews Kiran Shah (LOTR, NARNIA), Doc Hammer (VENTURE BROS.), David Prowse (Darth Vader) and George Lucas lookalike George Starkey. Includes footage of The dorks’ panel with Kiran Shah and other cool stuff. Check it out on our website. [More]
Andy Serkis, one of the leading actors in modern film animation, and a star of the successful Lord of the Rings trilogy, is due in Swansea later this year for a major film animation conference. The city’s annual Swansea Animation Days event returns in November, attracting companies and speakers from the animation and computer graphic imagery industry into the city. Serkis, due to be a speaker at the Swansea Institute conference, provided the movements and the voice for the computer- generated character Gollum in The Lord of the Rings films (2001-03). [More]
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NEW YORK (AP) — An unfinished tale by J.R.R. Tolkien has been edited by his son into a completed work and will be released next spring, the U.S. and British publishers announced Monday. Christopher Tolkien has spent the past 30 years working on “The Children of Hurin,” an epic tale his father began in 1918 and later abandoned. Excerpts of “The Children of Hurin,” which includes the elves and dwarves of Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and other works, have been published before. [More]