Take an early look on our ‘DVD Tuesday’ feature…every Monday! Check out some Kung-Fu on DVD goodies like ’36th Chamber of Shaolin’, ‘King Boxer’ & ‘One Armed Swordsman’. There are a few compilations out tomorrow including; ‘The Doris Day Collection, Vol. 2’ & ‘Hanna-Barbera Storybook Favorites’. The big release of the week is ‘Bobby’. Personally I’m interested in ‘Bobby’ & ‘Batman: Complete Third Season’! Check out the whole list here! [More]
Category: Old Main News
Thanks to those who have written in to point out the UK’s Tolkien publisher HarperCollins has released a trailer for the new ‘Children of Hurin’ book that will be released in about a week. TORn will be on hand at the New York City book event at Barns & Noble on the 17th in Manhattan where copies signed by Christopher Tolkien and Alan Lee will be for sale. Houghton Mifflin is the US publisher for the book. Check it out the book “trailer” here
The keys kindly provided by Turbine Inc. to try its massive multiplayer game “The Lord of the Rings Online: The Shadow of Angmar” have now been distributed! Winners from last week’s contest have been notified via e-mail along with the key to try the game. A big thanks to Turbine Inc. (game developer) for providing the keys. We look forward to seeing many of you during the game’s trial period before its official launch on the 24th! See Lord of the Rings Online for more info about the game.
Daniel Reeve also informs M.A.R.S. Productions that his maps of Cape Cod are now available! The famous Cape Cod, with its distinctive topography, features in this beautiful hand-drawn map, which covers an area of New England in the northeastern USA, from Boston to Connecticut, including Rhode Island, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket Island and Cape Cod itself. These beautiful limited edition prints are individually signed and numbered. Limited to 50 pieces worldwide. [danielreeve.com]
Mark writes: BBC Radio 4’s Today programme have recently aired a series of quite interesting stories about Ian McKellen’s King Lear. They offer a listen again service, and have some info on their website. [More]
M.A.R.S. Productions received the following news from LOTR Calligrapher Daniel Reeve: After the great success of the 1st edition on January 2006, with more than 4,000 guests in Cascina Robbiolo, from April 28 to May 1 2007 Tolkieniana Net Festival comes back to Buccinasco, Italy! This year, Tolkieniana will feature Daniel Reeve as a star guest, in a weekend celebrating music, art and calligraphy inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien. The weekend covers two themes, Hobbittana 70° and Back to Numenor, includes the events Eldamar IV and Alla Corte degli Elfi III, and runs in association with Tolkieniana.net, Eldalie, Bolgeri, Granburrone and ArsT. Daniel Reeve.