Elijah Wood was recently a guest on PBS’s late night talk show ‘Tavis Smiley’. Tavis and Elijah spoke about his upcoming films ‘Bobby’ and ‘Happy Feet’, his record label, and more! Take a look! (46.4MB MOV)
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Tehanu writes: Most Peter Jackson fans will never get the chance to have dinner the man. This book might be the next best thing, because it is stuffed full of anecdotes about the very things a fan would probably want to ask him if they had the opportunity. PJ is as we all know a great storyteller, and this book gives him a chance to tell the story of how he came to be a great film-maker.
Author Brian Sibley has also collected stories from people who have known or worked with PJ since he was a child, and woven them together into an exhaustively well-researched account of PJ’s life to date. The book charts his progress from an “enchanted” childhood of remarkable freedom, to the David and Goliath battles he faced when he started work on the Rings. [More]
Today is Craig Parker’s Birthday! Craig was born on November 12th, 1970 in Suva, Fiji. That makes him 36 today! Happy Birthday Craig!
brokenmandible sends in word that TNT is planning to run all three LOTR films on Starz in High Definition. The bad part is that they are encoding them in Segments, which means that they will have commercial interruption. They also are only 3 hours in duration approximately, therefore they are NOT the extended editions.
UPDATE: These definitely are NOT for CINEMAX, These have the TNT logo branded on them. They will be on TNT since they now have an HD channel.
Adam writes: This is a short that I co-directed that I thought you and other Tolkien fans might enjoy. It’s a LOTR meets “The Office” sort of thing. [More]
Cate Blanchett strode out yesterday to join a protest calling for more action on climate change. The renowned actor did her best to stay anonymous in a crowd of more than 20,000, and stood quietly listening to political speeches with her husband Andrew Upton and two sons. The family appeared just like many others who packed into Martin Place to hear about global warming. Ironically the weather was cool and drizzly. While Blanchett was in town to direct a play, she was not in the business of theatre yesterday. [More]