Comingsoon.net writes: Jeremy Irons will replace Ian McKellen in Michael Radford’s bigscreen adaptation of The Merchant of Venice because shooting delays have caused conflicts with McKellen’s schedule. The $30 million pic, originally scheduled to roll in September, is set to start shooting on November 23 in Luxembourg.

The December 2003 issue of Movieline Magazine had this feature on Viggo Mortensen. They discuss his latest film ‘Hidalgo’, his photos and his latest book, Miyelo. [More]

Premiere Magazine: 4 Hobbits Walk Into A Bar
Elijah, Dom, Billy & Sean on the cover of Premiere Magazine

Cathy sends along scans from the latest issue of Premiere Magazine, which has our four boys on the cover. There is also a great photo spread and article on them called ‘4 Hobbits Walk into a Bar’. Really great stuff…take a look! [More]

Asphodel writes: The Taiwan distributor, Deltamac, is having a Promo for TTT:EE. Here is a link to the promo, which features some nifty menu screens of Gollum. [More]

Irascian writes: RingCon 2003 got off to a spectacular start yesterday with an opening show that topped even last year’s jaw-droppiing performance. Lectures covering the gamut of Tolkien subjects (“Sex in Middle-earth” or “Lord of the Ear-rings” anyone?) and a set of panels that took audience participation to a whole new level. [More]

Tina writes: Our situation in Serbia sounds a lot like the one in Scandinavia – the LOTR distributor for Serbia and Montenegro says the TTT EE DVD will be in stores only on Nov. 25, due to “production problems.”