Ringer Spy Rodrigo sends us an amazing shot of Legolas from The Two Towers!
Category: Old Spy Reports
Ringer Spy RobertoZombie sends along this bit of info on a LOTR party tonight on the Warners lot. This is no rumor, there will be a party tonight, I was in fact invited to it, but just exactly what it is for remains a mystery.
I work at Warner Bros and I just walked by our theater here on the lot and the marquis says, “New Line Home Entertainment welcomes you to Middle Earth and the Lord of the Rings” and there are party fixings galore set up right out in front of the theater…
Unfortunately, the party area is tented and blocked off with yellow tape, but I did spy a very hobbit-looking wheelbarrow right next to the tent entrance.
Home Entertainment certainly indicated home video/DVD release, but it seems a bit early for an FOTR home video/DVD release party.
I’ve made some phone calls and sent some e-mails (no responses yet) to try to find out WHAT and WHEN and WHO.
Update: It seems that the party is in fact a press announcement on the LOTR:FOTR DVD details, such as release date, content and more.
Ringer Spy Rodrigo sends along some great pics from The Two Towers! Some appear to be from various newspaper clippings and spy pics we posted many a year ago during principal photography, but still cool to gaze at!
Ringer Spy Ataahua sends along some interesting information about Oscar night, and the NZ connections.
* Before the LOTR contingent left their hotel for the Academy Awards, a kapa haka (traditional Maori performance) group turned up and performed a haka in front of them. A haka is usually miss-named a ‘war dance’ – it’s actually a challenge, and can be performed in recognition of respect and honour upon the other party. Elijah Wood looked stunned by it, and the Kiwis in the party were thrilled. (The kapa haka group was arranged by TVNZ as a “good luck, well done” gesture to the LOTR people.)
* Wondered why Richard Taylor took his mum with him to the Oscars? Richard’s wife is three weeks away from giving birth! His mum later mentioned that when Richard was a boy, the two of them were in Los Angeles walking on that walk-of-fame, stars-with-the-names-in-them, footpath. “I didn’t think that several years later I’d be here watching my boy picking up two Oscars,” she said around a very big smile!
* This is the first time that a New Zealander (Richard Taylor) has won two Oscars, let alone on the same night. (New Zealanders had just two previous Oscars before last night – Anna Paquin’s best supporting actress for The Piano, and a technical award given a decade or so before hand – I don’t remember the man’s name or the film.)
Stewart from BillyBoyd.net sends us some information on a few new films featuring the lovable Scottsman.
Just to update you on two new projects that Billy is working on. The first is a short film directed by Paul Holmes called ‘Sniper470’. Billy is due to start filming this movie shortly.
The other project is called ‘The Far Side of the World’, playing the part of Bondon. The movie is directed by Peter Weir and also stars Russell Crowe. That is due to start filming in Mexico at start of June just after Billy returns from doing some further work on ‘The Lord of the Rings’.
Ringer Spy Anonymous sends along these great 3 pictures from The Two Towers! Some fearsome Uruk-hai possibly at the battle in Helms Deep, the lovely Miranda Otto as Eowyn and your first ever good look at Brad Dourif as Grima Wormtongue!
