Ryan writes: There are still plenty of seats left for Philly’s LOTR Symphony Concert. Maybe a reminder to your readers would help out? [Tickets]

Going to Comic-Con 2004 in San Diego? Do you collect Sideshow/Weta Collectibles? Well, you only have a week to place your order for the exclusive Smeagol Bust that can ONLY be picked up at the Sideshow/Weta Booth (#2029). [More]

Ringer Shauna sends in this tidbit for Oahu Ringers: “Sunset in the Park” will be at Pearl Harbor for the weekend of July 24-25, and on the 24th, they will be showing ROTK on their huge 30ft outdoor screen! As an added treat for Billy Boyd fans, they will be showing “Master and Commander” the following night. This event is free and open to the public, and will be located at Richardson Field, across from Aloha Stadium.

Take a look at about two dozen more images from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival featuring Bernard Hill and Elijah Wood. Keep an eye out for Harvey Keitel and Colm Meaney too! [More]

Update from IMDB: Pregnant Hollywood beauty Liv Tyler is doing “fine” after she fainted in a restaurant on Saturday. The Jersey Girl star was dining with husband Royston Langdon, actor Mark Wahlberg and his partner Rhea Durham at The Pearl eaterie on Massachusetts’ Nantucket Island, when she passed out at the table. After refusing first aid in the restaurant, five-months pregnant Tyler and Langdon visited Nantucket Cottage Hospital for a check-up. Her representative David Nesmith says, “Everything’s fine. She just over- extended herself on a most beautiful day. They took her vitals and determined that she had too much sun and too much of a good time shopping with the girls earlier in the day while Roy golfed. She and the baby are fine.”

There’s two great documentaries making the rounds of New Zealand during the film festival season – the Figwit documentary, about the elf extra catapaulted to unexpected fame via the internet, and the first part of Costa Botes’s very complete Making Of LOTR, which promises to be “a fuller and more playful appreciation of activity behind the scenes than you might have seen on the more formal guided tours provided by the DVD extras.” [More]