50 people emailed me to point out that in this picture Viggo already has a pipe in the same hand as the lit taper, (the stem is against his chest) and that the flame is the wrong shape for anything but a lighter, etc etc.
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Rookan writes: The First Annual Visual Effects Society awarded Two Towers with:
Best Special Effects in a Motion Picture
Best Visual Effects in an Effects-Driven Motion Picture
Best Art Direction
Best Visual Effects Photography
Best Models and Miniatures
Best Performance by an Actor (Serkis, Wood, Astin)
Best Character Animation
Best Compositing
Here’s the link [More]
Øystein writes: NRK 1, the main national TV channel in Norway will be showing a “Making Of TTT” this coming saturday at 22:20 local time (program is called (in Norwegian): “Fakta på lørdag: “Ringenes herre – To tårn” under innspilling” (translated it means “Facts on Saturday: “Lords of the Rings – Two Towers” under production”, Facts on Saturday is a program series here). Tt’s a 45 minute show. Nothing on their webpage about who it is by. A rerun of it will be shown on NRK2, their sister channel on the 28th of february.
DarkHorizons writes: Pirates of the Carribean : Its official – the project has undergone a name change to “Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl”. Reasoning? To help distinguish between the ride and movie.
In November 1918, J.R.R. Tolkien was 27 and had just returned to Oxford from active service in the First World War. He had landed a job as an assistant lexicographer at the Oxford English Dictionary and needed rooms nearby to rent for himself, his wife and his baby son. Number 50 St John Street, a few minutes’ walk from his old college, Exeter, fitted the bill. [More]
Cuivienor writes: Cine Live – a French magazine – has (already) The Return of the King on its cover (actually the picture of Aragorn on his warhorse we saw from the calender). To be truly honest, nothing knew, from what I read (didn’t have any money so didn’t buy), they just printed super-quality the calendar pics (Gollum, Frodo&Sam, Arwen, Frodo holding the Phial) and added a bit of text to add flavor to the whole. [More]