About a year ago a group of women started the Eowyn Challenge: the Walk to Rivendell. It was a fun way to get fit, lose weight, and enjoy some LOTR goodness all at once. A strong community has developed around this initiative and recently a group of them got together to celebrate their achievements. [More]
Category: Old Main News
We’re getting reports that suggest that different cities in India are seeing different versions of ROTK; so far only people in Chennai have written to complain that they’re missing the whole Grey Havens, but we don’t know how widespread the problem is. In the past New Line had not been happy if they catch overseas distributors butchering their film. [More]
This afternoon we had a little chat with New Line. Apparently the press release we’d posted earlier (as some of you had guessed) was a hoax. It fooled us — good job. Very good job, in fact. So good we’re going to keep an eye on this hoax to see what tomorrow’s “announcement” is going to be. [More]
Bilbo wakes up lost and afraid in the dark. Not knowing where he’s going, he starts crawling and all of a sudden one of his hands makes contact with a small cold metal-ring. Putting the ring in his pocket the Hobbit stumbles on towards the roots of the mountains. Deep down by a subterranean pool Gollum is waiting.[More]
A press release has been announced indicating that The Hobbit will begin production with director Paul Anderson, who is (and I quote) ‘the young director whose portfolio includes smash successes such as Resident Evil, Event Horizon and Mortal Kombat’. This comes directly from a new teaser site www.thehobbitfilm.com. My question is where is PJ??? Why hasn’t he picked this up after King Kong?! [More]
“THE HOBBIT” TO BEGIN PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN NEW ZEALAND in 2005
New Line Acquires Distribution Rights; Paul Anderson to Direct; McKellen, Serkis to Return
– The Hobbit will begin principal photography in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2005, under the direction sci-fi/fantasy director Paul Anderson, it was jointly announced today by Robert Shaye, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of New Line Cinema; Michael Lynne, President and Chief Operating Officer of New Line Cinema; Mark Ordesky, President of Fine Line Features; and Anderson, who is also a writer and producer of the production. [Press Release]
Jeff Wells writes: All along we’ve been hearing that Peter Jackson’s KING KONG, which will begin filming in New Zealand roughly four months from now, is going to be a reverent semi-tribute to Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s ‘s 1933 original. That concept is now, in my judgement, pretty much out the window and in the trash can. But before we get to the dreaded specifics. [More]