Today is John Rhys-Davies’ birthday! John was born on May 5th, 1944 in Wiltshire, England. That makes him 62 years old today! Happy Birthday John!
Category: Old Main News
This week in #moviechat we will be getting together to watch George Lucas’ seminal blockbuster, ‘Star Wars’ (1977).
Join us this weekend Saturday May 6 on our IRC server a little before 5:30 pm EST when we pop our copies of the film into the DVD player. After the usual confusion, at around 5.30pm EST we’ll all press play on our individual players and proceed to cheer and jeer (or discuss and argue, if you like!) the finer points of the film. [More]
Ian McKellen was a guest on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ early this morning (May 3rd) on ABC. He was there to promote his latest film ‘The Da Vinci Code’, they spoke briefly about is knighthood, working on King Lear, and American Idol of all things. They showed a brief clip from the film, it was a scene between himself, Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou from the middle of the film. They also mentioned his website (McKellen.com) and how Sir Ian is the original ‘Blogfather’. Take a look! (37.5MB MOV)[More]
KellyofLuthien writes: I just thought you might like to know that Kirin Shah has been listed as a guest for Dragon*Con 2006, September 1-4 in Atlanta, GA. [dragoncon.org]
Dominic Monaghan’s Golden Globe winning show ‘Lost’ is on tonight at 9PM EST on ABC. TORN’s chatroom now has a special ‘Lost’ screening room, login to #lost at 9PM and watch with fans from around the country! [ABC.com] [TORN Chat]
Batman Begins and King Kong topped the winners at the 32nd annual Saturn Awards, taking home three statuettes each in ceremonies in Universal City, Calif., on May 2. Among the television nominees, SCI FI Channel’s original series Battlestar Galactica dominated the winners, with three awards. The Saturns were given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films.
The Batman prequel took home awards for best fantasy film, best actor (Christian Bale) and best writing (director Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer).
King Kong won for best actress (Naomi Watts), best director (Peter Jackson) and best special effects (Joe Letteri, Richard Taylor, Christian Rivers, Brian Van’t Hul). Star Wars: Episode III, Sin City and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe each got two Saturns. [More]