Cedric writes: There’s a video available on the Sydney Morning Herald’s website about the Lord of the Rings exhibition. You might need to subscribe but it’s free. The curator notes that this exhibition has done better than the Star Wars one from 2002. [More]
Category: Old Main News
From the folks at the Powerhouse Museum: Academy Award-winning special effects maestro Richard Taylor will showcase his extraordinary talents and share his experiences from the set of The Lord of the Rings Motion Picture Trilogy during a weekend program exclusive to the Powerhouse Museum, 26 – 27 February. [More]
miss_understood9020 (as well as many others) writes: I just want to let all Sean Astin fans know that his movie ‘Slipstream’ will be airing on the SciFi channel Saturday (Feb 12th) at 9:00PM. Enjoy the movie! [More]
Kiran Shah has been confirmed as a Guest of Honor at TolCon. Kiran acted as a hobbit body double (usually Frodo) and is now playing the dwarf Ginarrbrik for “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.” He’s bound to have a lot of great stories to tell, and the NW Tolkien Society is thrilled to have him aboard on May 13-15, 2005 in Seattle. [More]
From movies.monstersandcritics.com: We have added a set of stills from Ian McKellan’s(SIC) forthcoming drama “Asylum,” which also stars Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville and Marton Csokas. Stella Raphael, a cultured and elegant but restless young woman, lives with her husband, Max, a forensic psychiatrist, and their small son, Charlie, at a high-security mental hospital in rural England. [More]

Deenan writes: Elijah Wood’s “Hooligans” and Dom Monaghan’s “Shooting Livien” films will be premiering at the SXSW film festival in March. [More]