Early this morning while my head was still deep in my pillows I was quietly listening to the best morning show in the world when 2 names were mentioned that caught my attention. It seems that Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) and Ian McKellen (Gandalf) have been confirmed as guests for the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival. [TIFF]
Category: Original TORn
The folks at WETA Digital wrote us regarding this report on Roman Reyes in Dublin: ‘[Roman is] hardly a “leading designer” for LOTR. He just worked on set doing makeup, possibly came up with a design for one of the orc masks but definitely nothing to do with Gollum.‘
Thanks for the correction!
Jesse writes: On August 9th I had the pleasure of seeing FOTR and TTT back to back in our local theater. It went from midnight to 6am with a 15 min. intermission at 3am. Here’s a clip from our local paper about it. I had a blast, but I think I’ll skip next years triple feature. [More]
Jessie from Chilliwack writes: I saw this in the paper late this evening. Freaked out that I hadn’t seen it yet. For a huge “Ringer” this is cool to see that my local paper is getting involved so early. !!Spoiler Images!! [More]
David let me know about this really neat Elvish name generator thingy on chriswetherell.com. Take a look! [More]
From ComputerWorld.co.nz: Weta Digital and Massey University face massive bills from SCO’s attempted imposition of a Linux licensing charge, but neither intends paying — at this stage. [More]