The director says he would consider making The Hobbit as well. This weekend, The Two Towers surpassed the enormous $313 million gross taken by its predecessor, The Fellowship of the Ring, one year ago. The film continues to post strong numbers from week to week, and is still the number one film in Canada, where it has earned $50 million more quickly than any other in history. [More]
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John LaBrie will be a special guest at the Game Developers Confrence next month in San Jose, California. Follow the link for more details. [More] [Gaming Havens]
Monica sent in two links to Sean Astin-stories, first of all there’s an article about the episode of ‘Angel’ Sean directed over at zap2it.com. [More] And secondly here’s a tidbit about his meeting with Democratic Hill Staffers at Hawk ‘N Dove complete with pictures and all! [More]
Apart from the Oscars there are a whole lot more awards that The Two Towers can pick up, and you can even help with that! You can vote for The Two Towers as ‘Orange Film of the Year’ at the BAFTAS here (please don’t email me about this anymore), but there’s more! The Two Towers also picked up several AOL Moviegoer Awards, you can vote for TTT to win a few of those here, and last but not least TTT got nominated for the Internet Movie Awards and everyone should be able to vote for those here!
Lostfiniel writes: A guest speaker from the Fashion Institute of design and merchandising was talking to our class and mentioned that at their campus there will be a presentation of costumes from the movies nominated for best costume this year. There will be Two Towers costumes. It is the LA campus I believe…..the fashion school website is at fidm.com and they mention the exhibit for this year here!
For a classically trained British actor, it can be a lot of work to play a shriveled-up, power-mad freak of nature with bulging eyes and a bad comb-over, especially when it’s not you on screen but a digitally animated character. [More]
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