Word comes from Sideshow/Weta Collectibles that the very popular Gandalf on Shadowfax statue is about to sell out. If you wanted to place your order for this limited edition piece, now would be the time. [More]
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Nellie Andreeva writes: Sean Astin, Leelee Sobieski and Timothy Dalton are set and Angie Harmon is in negotiations to star in NBC’s four-hour miniseries “Hercules,” from Hallmark Entertainment. Astin will play Linus, Hercules’ music teacher. [More]
Howard Shore’s evocative music for Peter Jackson’s multi-award winning film, already greeted with a unanimous standing ovation by a sell-out Royal Festival Hall audience in May, returns to London, not once – but now twice – to meet public demand. Columbia Artists Management announces today a second Royal Albert Hall concert to join 22 September (Bilbo and Frodo’s joint birthdays). The party is now set to continue the very next day, Thursday 23 September. [More]
In a story that may get the attention of many fans, and most certainly the ire of others, Electronic Gaming Monthly reports that there may be Extended Extended editions coming to DVD in the not-so-near future. Or so says the ‘LOTR: The Third Age’ RPG game Executive Producer, Steve Gray. [More]
Naomi Watts, who stars in Peter Jackson’s upcoming remake of King Kong, told SCI FI Wire that she initially worried that her simian co-star wouldn’t be on the set and would be added in later with computer graphics, but that Jackson eased her fears. [More]
MrCere writes: Since 2000 TheOneRing.net has been publishing reports of the biggest, brightest and some say best pop-culture fan gathering in the United States if not the world, and to not keep up the tradition would be just plain wrong! This was the Con’s 35th year in existence, where it has grown from a couple of hundred people talking comic shop into 80,000 (according to un-official reports) people celebrating all things “genre” while still keeping comic books as its base. [More]