Frodo_for_President writes: So, I got my Premiere magazine in the mail today, and was quite excited because it’s all about Revenge of the Sith and upcoming summer movies. So I’m flipping through, and I see a caricature of Dom, so I screech to a halt. It’s a blurb about Ringers!! “Three Lord of the Rings movies and a year’s worth of DVD extras still not enough hobbit for you? Don’t worry, there’s a new documentary to take you back to the Shire…” [More]
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Frodo_for_President writes: So, I got my Premiere magazine in the mail today, and was quite excited because it’s all about Revenge of the Sith and upcoming summer movies. So I’m flipping through, and I see a caricature of Dom, so I screech to a halt. It’s a blurb about Ringers!! I’ll type it up for you here:
Ringdom Come: Fans of Tolkien Lord Over Their Own Documentary
“Three Lord of the Rings movies and a year’s worth of DVD extras still not enough hobbit for you? Don’t worry, there’s a new documentary to take you back to the Shire.
“In ‘Ringers: Lord of the Fans’, film-makers Carlene Cordova and Cliff Broadway look at the influence the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have had on popular culture. Hobbitheads themselves, they raised money with the help of TheOneRing.net and sold LOTR collectibles on EBay to finance the documentary. Over more than two years, they interviewed Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, and Peter Jackson, as well as artists, musicians, and academics who love the tale.
“‘It’s great to see fans who are so invested in the books and Pete Jackson’s work that they now want to see what’s happened four or five years down the line,” says Dominic Monaghan, who played Merry in the trilogy and narrates the documentary. “It’s how normal people were swept up by this extraordinary film project that was based on these amazing books and how it changed their lives.’
“But don’t start lining up at your local multiplex just yet. Though the film premiered at Slamdance – a sideshow to the famed Sundance Film Festival – in January to an overflow crowd, it is still being shopped at the studios for distribution. You have to hope the studio execs saw the buttons the filmmakers were sporting at Slamdance: ‘Like Trekkies Only Sexier.'”
WOW!!! Premiere Magazine… that’s great for them.
Star Wars, a bit about Hitchhiker’s Guide, an article about Kingdom of Heaven… and RINGERS!!! It’s a geek’s dream magazine 😛
Jef writes: Andúnië, the Atlanta, Georgia smial of the Tolkien Society, will be holding its spring meeting this coming Sunday, 4/10, from 6-8pm at the Emory University Catholic center. Smial members will be be discussing the Silmarillion from “Of the Ruin of Doriath” (Chapter XXII of the Quenta Silmarillion) through the end of the book. All with a philosophical/theological interest in Tolkien’s work are welcome! [Directions]
(PRWEB) April 7, 2005 — In this month issue of Melroze Web Magazine get to know Orlando Bloom. Bloom has been tipped to play a young James Bond in a movie series designed to endear the suave master spy to younger viewers. Bloom also stars as a 12th Century commoner who finds himself thrust into a decades-long war, in Kingdom of Heaven. [More]
Orlando Bloom, Brad Pitt, Cameron Diaz, Bono, Tom Hanks and Jamie Foxx have all joined the war on poverty — in a 60-second public service spot to air globally Sunday on ABC and MTV networks. Liberal doyenne Susan Sarandon, Christian conservative Pat Robertson, hip-hop kingpin Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and 33 other entertainers, preachers and politicians will help promote “One: The Campaign to Make Poverty History” and its Web site, www.one.org. [More]
Howard Shore has an 800-pound gorilla on his back that’s cancelling his trip to Des Moines. Shore, an Academy Award-winning composer, was scheduled to conduct the Des Moines Symphony’s performance of the “Lord of the Rings Symphony.” But he is tied up with his latest film project, “King Kong,” and won’t be conducting any of the other 20 dates the “Rings” symphony is scheduled to be performed around the country in the coming months, according to his agent. Guest conducting in Shore’s place will be Munich native Markus Huber, a chief conductor in Bulgaria and guest conductor of a variety of orchestras in Germany. [More]