Ringer Spy Irascian finally got around to transcribing second press panel held in Wellington priot to the worldpremière of The Return of the King: There’s nothing really new here except perhaps the news that Liv Tyler’s song is likely to be on the extended DVD. But at least some of the pictures are nice. I particularly like the one of Viggo near the bottom of the page where with only a microphone to aid him he does a very good impression of Mickey Mouse… [More]
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Thanks to Sammy, JP, Starmaid, John, Paul F. & Greenleaf’s Cat for thier great reports and images from the Santa Barbara Film Fest, and the Modern Master Award Ceremony with Peter Jackson, Sean Astin and a Python with a dead Kiwi! (well, it wasn’t dead when he bought it) [More]
Ringer Spy Roheryn writes: The February 2004 issue of the trade publication “Film & Video” had two LOTR-related articles. The cover story focused on five of the leading special effects gurus, including LOTR’s Jim Rygiel. The cover art even includes a caricature of Jim, lower right. The second article is a very revealing survey of the magazine’s readers who all work in the film and video industry. [More]
Roheryn writes: This small item jammed with familiar names appeared in the January 16 issue of Entertainment Weekly. Interesting to note that if Bruce Spence had made it into the final cut of the theatrical release of ROTK as the Mouth of Sauron, he would have topped Hugo Weaving in this tally! [More]
Jerry of the Shire writes: Just wanted to pass along the flier for a three-day series of LotR-related events put on by the English Department of Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, VA. On Feb 5th, they will view Fotr, on Feb 12th TTT, and on Feb 19th will be a roundtable discussion about RotK. [More]
The failure of the final part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Return of the King, to receive a single acting Academy Award nomination is a travesty. At least four of the male actors – Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen and Bernard Hill – fully deserve Oscars. [More]