Shore won this year’s Oscars for best score and best song Composer Howard Shore, who created Oscar-winning scores for The Lord of the Rings films, is to be honoured by a US composers’ institution on Wednesday. Canadian Shore is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Ascap) in Los Angeles. [More]
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toonzone.net reports that the Rankin/Bass 1977 ‘The Hobbit’ and the 1980 ‘The Return of the King’ cartoons will be airing on The Cartoon Network in May. [More]
Ataahua writes: During the weekend the Women in Film and Television World Summit wound up in Auckland, NZ, which was attended by delegates from around the world. At the end of the summit LOTR script writer Fran Walsh and costume designer Ngila Dickson each walked away with an award: Fran with the International Achievement Award for her role in LOTR, and Ngila with the Outstanding Achievement Award.
Faye-Elf writes: I don’t know if anyone else has reported this but I saw Elijah Wood filming on location in London yesterday afternoon. [More]
Ian McKellen is set to receive an Honarary degree at Leeds University on April 29th. The ceremony will include the conferment of honorary degrees upon Jack Charlton, Tony Harrison, Dame Julie Higgins, Sir Ken Morrison, Baroness (Usha) Prashar and Professors David Rhodes and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. [More]
From IMDB: British Hollywood star Orlando Bloom was rushed off set amid suspected terror attacks whilst filming Ridley Scott’s new film Kingdom Of Heaven. The 27-year-old actor who was shooting in Morocco when he had to be ushered to safety after blasts were heard. An insider says, “We all thought it was a bomb at first, we were terrified. Orlando, director Ridley Scott and the rest of the crew were evacuated immediately.” [More]