Peter Jackson will be in the latest issue of Rolling Stone Magazine (with Beyonce Knowles on the cover). Anyone with a scanner send it along!
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LOS ANGELES – On Feb. 29, Billy Crystal will read wisecracks from a script in front of millions of Oscar telecast viewers while wearing a tuxedo on the Kodak Theatre stage. On Wednesday morning, he was improvising jokes in the theater lobby, wearing a sweater and faded jeans, playing to about 200 co-workers at the first major production meeting for the 76th annual Academy Awards. [More]
By any measure, “The Lord of the Rings Trilogy” is an astonishing success, the stuff box-office dreams are made of. And for fans, it has fantastic creatures, stunning special effects and bold heroes caught up in an epic battle between good and evil. [More]
From: Oscars.org: The Scientific and Technical Academy Awards will be presented on February 14, 2004, at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pasadena. Scientific and Technical Awards are given for devices, methods, formulas, discoveries or inventions of special and outstanding value to the arts and sciences of motion pictures that also have a proven history of use in the motion picture industry. To Stephen Regelous for the design and development of Massive, the autonomous agent animation system used for the battle sequences in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Massive takes a new approach in simulating behaviors of large numbers of computer generated extras (a.k.a.) “agents.” Each “agent” contains a primitive software “brain” used to develop behavioral rules simulating a wide range of behaviors. In “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy,over 200,000 agents were controlled in several scenes.
BBC News Online assesses what impact Sunday’s Baftas may have on Oscar voting in two weeks’ time. When the prestigious best film Bafta is handed out in London on Sunday evening, US Academy members will be watching with their usual interest. But to what degree, if any, will the choice have an impact on their own decision two weeks later? [More]
Carissa writes: In the February 23rd issue of People Magazine on page 31 with Drew Barrymore on the cover, there is a short interview with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox called Sound Off. They talk about the inspiration for the song, working together, and why audiences connect to the saga.
Anyone with a scanner, send it along!