Composer Howard Shore will conduct a series of concerts around the world of his epic six movement The Lord Of The Rings Symphony. The first confirmed date is Friday 16th April 2004, in Antwerp, Belgium. [More]
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On the HUGE news front today…co-CEO/co-Chairman of New Line Cinema, Robert Shaye, has sent an official response to the LET THE HOBBIT HAPPEN campaign! Take a moment and be encouraged by the first official statement from New Line Cinema on the making of The Hobbit! [More]
TORn Friend and all around nice guy Bruce Hopkins supplied us with some of his own photographs taken in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. There’s a few of them from the Oscarparty, that can be found here, but the most interesting ones are about ‘Operation Read’. We posted his must-read report yesterday (read it here), the pictures of his school-visits can now be found in our scrapbook! [More]
Billy Boyd
Carlene Cordova the director of “Ringers: Lord of the Fans” writes: Hello fellow Ringers! As we’re editing “Ringers” together we’re discovering that some of the interviews and footage that we’re shooting would work better on TORn than in our film. This interview is one example. This was shot at the Nieman Marcus LOTR window unveiling in Beverly Hills, California last December. Cliff “Quickbeam” Broadway is interviewing Billy, and Josh Mandel was running the camera that evening. Enjoy! [TORN Digital]
Arlene writes: The Florida State University Student Life Building is having a LOTR “Late Night Lock-in” on April 16th. All three movies will be shown from 6 PM to 6 AM Saturday morning. Passes are needed, but you can still get in if not enough people with passes turn up. [More]
After last year’s successful launch into the television orbit and a safe return to Earth, The Spaceys are all systems go for a second mission….But for these awards, the celebrities and recipients don’t come to the show, the show goes to them. Spacey cameras, for example, visited London to present a special lifetime achievement award to pioneer special-effects craftsman Ray Harryhausen…One Harryhausen admirer, Lord of the Rings maestro Peter Jackson, will also be getting a special achievement award, although the Spaceys didn’t journey to New Zealand to hand it over. “Jackson actually sent us stuff from New Zealand he had his own people shoot,” says Spaceys’ on-camera host Jonathan Llyr who notes the Kiwi filmmaker is also up for two other awards on the show. [More]