Shooting itself in the foot, NZ’s Dept. of Conservation is seeking to limit activities such as filming in some of its wilderness parks, a move described by National MP Nick Smith as ‘Political Correctness gone mad!’ [More]
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We’ve just got news of a display of WETA props in Wellington at the St. James Theatre from December 11 – 20th. [More]
Thanks to Elliot for that.
Mr. Tadpole dropped this in our box. Congrats Peter and Richard!!
PJ named Wellingtonian of the Year, with Richard Taylor winning the business category of the awards. Yay!
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We can reveal who plays another character role in FOTR! [More]
We can reveal the name of another character actor in FOTR: Noel Appleby.
ProudFEET!
I happened to be talking to Kiwi actor Noel Appleby recently, and it turns out that he played a character called Everard Proudfoot in the opening Shire scenes. The name confused me at first – there’s an Everard Took mentioned in the book, but the only Proudfoot we know of is Odo. Nevertheless, Noel Appleby’s line was to shout out “ProudFEET!” as per the scene at Bilbo’s party.
Noel’s is one of those familiar faces in Kiwi film – I remembered him playing Ulf in Vincent Ward’s The Navigator, in which role he was awarded Best Supporting Actor
From Ringer MaceTowani, “… the big multiplex in New Rochelle will be showing FotR at midnight the 19th. I got my tickets! Oh yeah by the way the will be showing it on the…IMAX SCREEN!!!“