From waytoblue.com: Green Street is an award-winning and exhilarating story of friendship, loyalty and honour set against the backdrop of football hooliganism. To celebrate the release on September 9th 2005, we are giving away hundreds of tickets to the screening at cinemas across the UK. For your chance to win simply follow this link! Good luck! [More]
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Ringer Celebriel just returned from an LOTR locations tour in New Zealand, this is her Day Seven report: Today’s principal location was the Ben-Ohau Station outside Twizel, where the Battle of the Pelennor Fields in The Return of the King was filmed. At the ranch we met owner Simon Cameron, his daughter Sarah, and her friend. [More]
We are about to enter the time of superlatives. Although JK Rowling’s publisher is understandably cagey about what we should expect today, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is released, we know we are on course once more to experience a record-breaking publishing phenomenon. The book will have an initial print run of more than 10m in the United States – the biggest first printing of any book, ever. [More]
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Without the latest advances in chemistry, the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy would never have been so realistic, says a scientist using his tools in the film trade. Chemist Norman Cates estimates he made thousands of elves’ ears, wizards’ noses and hobbits’ feet for all three Rings movies. It was the job made in heaven for the former Aucklander, who first started doing make-up and making prosthetics when he joined a science fiction club at age 16. “I taught myself from books I got out of the library.” [More]
Scots actor Billy Boyd has told how he almost died when a surfing holiday turned into a nightmare. The Glasgow-born Lord Of The Rings star nearly drowned when he was hit by a giant wave during a break in South Africa. The 36-year-old said: “At one point I was trapped on the sea bed, being held down by a wave and I thought: ‘Is it going to end like this?'” [More]