They changed the face of movie making forever, and now the incredible beloved quartet of LORD OF THE RINGS’ hobbits (Elijah Wood, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd and Sean Astin) are headlining an amazing weekend coming *January 14-16, 2005* to The Pasadena Center in Pasadena California. [More]

The 16th Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) will honor Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman with the distinguished Chairman’s Award and Academy Award winner Howard Shore with the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing at the Festival’s Annual Awards Gala, announced Chairman Earl Greenburg. [More]

The Northwest Tolkien Society’s is holding Tolcon in May. They’ve just confirmed that Ted Nasmith will be attending. [More]

In my continuing effort to get the entire universe to watch Lost on ABC every Wednesday night, I post this reminder to…watch Lost on ABC tonight! Dominic Monaghan’s breakaway smash hit of the year Lost is about castaways of a plane crash on a mysterious island where nothing is what it seems! It is an all new episode tonight..so be sure to watch! [Lost]

Ain’t It Cool News is reporting that Peter Jackson and his producing team of Fran Walsh, Phillipa Boyes and Jan Blenkin are looking to adapt the Alice Sebold novel ‘The Lovely Bones’ as his post-Kong project.

‘Bones’ tells the story of a young girl who is murdered, she then watches her family from the afterlife. PJ and Boyens were both quoted in the latest (and I think last) issue of the Lord of the Rings fanclub magazine. [More]

Pick up a copy of ‘The Lovely Bones’ from Amazon.com today!

Ostadan writes: Los Angeles’s noncommercial classical radio station KUSC ran an ad this morning for this coming Sunday’s “Record Shelf” program, to feature an interview with Howard Shore. Svejda’s program can be heard on KUSC in Los Angeles, streamed from their Web site, and also can be heard in syndication. [KUSC.org]