Rebecca writes: Comingsoon.net has the trailer and production stills for a movie Orlando Bloom did almost 3 years ago called ‘Haven’. I had the chance to see it when it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival 2 years ago, and thought it was fantastic. It’s also the best acting performance Orlando has given to date. The movie had problems finding a distributor, but is finally gettting a limited release in the US on September 15th. I hope everyone has the chance to see this! [More]
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As could be expected, Sean Astin is approached often by strangers. What may be surprising, however, is that not all of them want to talk about the actor’s roles in the epic “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy or his early work on the ’80s classic “The Goonies.” Instead, many want to discuss his very public mother, Patty Duke, and her very public battle with bipolar disorder. From a clerk at an airport gift shop to a makeup artist hired for a series of appearances in Salt Lake City, they say they have been affected in some way by the mental illness. “Everywhere I go, people say that they’ve been touched by it,” the 35-year-old Astin said, stopping in Utah as part of a public-awareness campaign about bipolar disorder, also called manic depression. “People are whispering less about it.” [More]
The Raynor Memorial Libraries’ Department of Special Collections and Archives will host a lecture by Tolkien scholar Eduardo Segura, Professor of Aesthetics, Philosophy of Language, and Literature at the Institutio De Filosofia Edith Sten (Granada, Spain) at 3:00 p.m. on September 26th in the Raynor Library, 1355 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee. Professor Segura’s presentation, “Tolkien, Lewis, and Hollywood: What Images Cannot Say,” will center on differences between literature and cinema as artistic means, particularly from J.R.R. Tolkien’s and C.S. Lewis’ outlook. Dr. Segura will discuss Tolkien’s passion for inventing languages, and the immense difficulty of communicating metaphorical meaning on film—even those brilliant scenes that Hollywood has recently released. A question and answer session will follow. [More]
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Everyone loves the wickedly funny “Very Secret Diaries” as created by fan fic phenom Cassie Claire. This spoof of Fellowship characters has appeared in the award-winning indie documentary RINGERS: LORD OF THE FANS, in an outrageous sequence where Toy Biz Action Figures and character voices were filmed on a mini set! The original, authentic toys and props used in RINGERS are now offered on eBay! Now is your chance to own a piece of indie film history. Check out this sequence from the film (Quicktime required) and join the auction fun! [More]
From AICN: Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I know a lot of you are HALO geeks like me and like me you’ve probably been wanting to hear about the status of the HALO movie being produced at Universal and 20th Century Fox, Weta Workshop and Digital signed on to bring the special effects, and Peter Jackson onboard as executive producer. Well, the wait’s over. A director has been chosen, according to Microsoft, a man by the name of Neill Blomkamp. Before you start getting too worried that an untested director has been chosen to direct such a high profile movie, you should see his short film ALIVE IN JOBURG. [More]