elanor_the_fairuk writes: There’s one last chance to see the Fellowship on November 26th at Reading University at 7:15pm thanks to Reading film & theatre group. Tickets are £4.50 to non-members of the film & theatre group and it’s being screened in Palmer building’s main lecture theatre.
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News on the charity event in Wellington, where they’ll be showing the extended edition FOTR on the big screen at the Embassy. And…more Figwit news! [More]
Melkor writes: The LOTR site hosted by The Royal mail here in the UK is up and running and it looks amazing. So if you want to buy your stamps and cards go here. [More]
Frodo’s Girl writes, “I stopped in the embassy tonight, and the special showing of the extended version of FOTR on 11/11 is a chartiy showing for the Embassy Trust. Tickets are $50 a piece and went on sale today (4/11). They told me we will be watching Peter’s own personal copy and it will be film, not digital. Wne and nibbles an hour or so before the film. I can’t wait!
“Figwit is in a show at the local fringe theatre, Bats, this week. It is called “Live:TraNZmissions” and is absolutely brill! I saw it last night. It is 3 radio plays that Brett McKenzie (figwit), Taika Cohen and Adam Gardiner wrote and perform. One of the 3 bits is a serial that is being broadcast live on [student radio] Radio Active each night. It is very clever and very funny – and I must say that Brett is getting some use out of his Figwit fame. The local news had a bit about the show, saying that Figwit was one of the actors! … Brett had a nice write up in the capital times a couple of weeks back, too.”
Scoop.co carries the story of just WHO is going to be at the Dec. 18 premiere in New Zealand. PJ, Richard Taylor, local hunk Karl Urban [Eomer] of course and Elijah Wood! [More]
NOW do you want to sign up for one of the Red Carpet Movie Premiere tours? They have a spot secured on the red carpet outside the Embassy…looks like they’ll have to shuffle down to Wellington a day earlier for it. [More]
Check out this very cool and complete (and very exclusive) review of Brian Sibley’s “The Making of the Movie Trilogy” book by Ringer Spy irascian!
One of the problems with reviewing a book by a friend or colleague is that it can be a bit of a lose-lose situation for the reviewer… [More]