Speaking to this month’s Premiere magazine, Elijah Wood reveals that the teen cast from The Lord of the Rings took a week’s vacation whilst filming in Middle-earth to visit the cast and set of Episode II. ‘We felt like the rogue crew,’ Wood says of his co-stars Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd and Orlando Bloom. ‘There was a weird sense that with the two trilogies, there was this odd undercurent rivalry.’ [More]
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Ringer Spy Noah sends along the good news that you can pre-order your Toy Biz toys at Amazon.com now! [More]
First we had a Minister responsible for the America’s Cup – now we have our own Lord and Minister of the Rings. The Evening Post can reveal that the Government has recently appointed Energy Minister Pete Hodgson as the Minister responsible for the $600 million film trilogy that stars Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen and Liv Tyler. And he didn’t get the position because he has a wizard-like white beard. [More]
Sir Ian McKellen, rightfully acknowledged as ‘the leading British actor if his generation’, is a household name in Wellington. Lord of the rings has cemented him in our minds, brining life to the role of Gandalf; we haven’t even seen the film yet! And yet we know, we all know, he’;; be perfect. [More]
From Amroth:
Greetings from Amroth. I got this mail from the Swedish distributor of LOTR It translates like this; FOTR has premiere 19th Dec. We still have no date for ticket-release. Keep your eyes on the daily press, they are probably released about one month before and then probably only to be distributed via cash-register.
From New Zealand’s ‘Sunday News’ comes a small news clip about PJ’s chances for an Oscar…I hope he goes away with over 12! (no, no one told me to say that, but I hope PJ sends a check in the mail 🙂 ) [More]