From The Scotsman: Imagine a world in which The Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia didn’t exist; where children had never encountered the Snow Queen of Narnia or read the adventures of Gandalf, Frodo and Sam; where Peter Jackson was just another jobbing director looking for his big break and the film industry was significantly poorer. [More]
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From HowardShore.com: Howard Shore has signed a copy of his Academy Award-winning score to Return of the King to be auctioned on Ebay with all profits being donated to the Tree People charity. Tree People helps fund the planting of trees as part of a restoration project for lands damaged by wildfires in the state of California. You only have a few days left to own a piece of film music history! [More]
Ringer Spy arthur writes: I was looking for maya, a digital software tool for 3d animation, and on their website www.alias.com they have a link to play behind the scenes footage of the making of ROTK. Here’s the link to the part of the site with the clip in it. [More]
The official site has updated with a list of what we can expect on the Return of the King DVD arriving near you from May 25th. Unfortunately no Extended Edition-preview this time around. Preorders for the DVD will commence on March 12th. [More]
Things are coming together for Peter Jackson’s King Kong. Soopi sends along this image of a large ship currently docked in Wellington. The ship is rumored to be used in a ‘spectacular explosion’ during the film. Anyone with closer access and a nice digital camera, send me some more images!. [More]
The New Hollywood?
Thain Brandybuck sends in this report from the Oscar celebrations in Wellington: The Oscar festivities saw people celebrating all over the world. And the real party begun even earlier with a gathering of good friends in Wellington, New Zealand. Unaware that movie history would be made on Monday, our group Cormacolindor met for the weekend. [More]