From the folks at the Dallas Comic Con: February 12-13 sees the return of the DALLAS COMIC CON. Special guests include Sean Astin from the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. This event marks Astin’s first convention appearance in Texas. He is joined by other big Hollywood celebrities, including THE PUNISHER star Thomas Jane, MEDIUM star Patricia Arquette, and ALIAS star David Anders. You’ll also find a variety of popular comic book creators, including legendary artist Bernie Wrightson. The show will be held at the Richardson Civic Center. Hours are Noon to 6pm on Saturday, and Noon to 4pm on Sunday. Astin, Jane and Arquette are appearing on Saturday only. [More]
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Ian McKellen has been nominated for a Genie Award for his work on ‘Emile’. A Genie is the Canadian version of a Golden Globe, celebrating works of film and television. McKellen was nominated for ‘Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role’, he is up against: MICHEL C’TÉ (Le Dernier Tunnel / The Last Tunnel), ROY DUPUIS (Mémoires affectives / Looking for Alexander), DAVID LA HAYE (Nouvelle-France), NICK STAHL (Twist). [More]
JB writes: The BFI London IMAX Cinema is holding another all night trilogy screening on the 18th & 19th March. Last year’s all nighter was a great night. They are also planning a Matrix Trilogy the weekend before. [More]
Dominic Monaghan’s new hit show ‘Lost’ continues to get better with each episode. Tonight features the first new episode since mid January, entitled ‘Homecoming’ it promises to be a blast! Catch ‘Lost’ tonight at 8PM EST on ABC. TORN’s chatroom now has a special ‘Lost’ screening room, login to #lost at 8PM and watch with fans from around the country! [ABC.com] [TORN Chat]
Tim from Lumière Industries writes: Thought you’d like to know about an event on interest which my website, “The Lumière Reader”, is involved with. Called “Semi-Permanent”, the conference is Australasia’s largest design and creative event, taking place first in Auckland, NZ (March 12), and then the following weekend in Sydney, Australia (March 18/19). [More]
Tim from Lumière Industries writes: Thought you’d like to know about an event on interest which my website, “The Lumière Reader”, is involved with. Called “Semi-Permanent”, the conference is Australasia’s largest design and creative event, taking place first in Auckland, NZ (March 12), and then the following weekend in Sydney, Australia (March 18/19)
Featuring a number of international speakers from design/creative backgrounds, Weta Digital are the main draw-card as far as digital/animation/motion graphics industries are concerned – although I suspect there may be some diehard LOTR fans out there who would like to know more about Weta’s appearance.
The event is open to anyone, and is very much an energetic event designed more around lively presentations and interaction between guest speakers and attendees, with a youth focus. Anyway, if you want to find out more, visit the Semi-Permanent link on our website’s front page – there’s a brief write-up, some modest coverage on the guest-speakers to come, and enough info there to get a better idea of what I’m talking about. [More]