Shore won this year’s Oscars for best score and best song Composer Howard Shore, who created Oscar-winning scores for The Lord of the Rings films, is to be honoured by a US composers’ institution on Wednesday. Canadian Shore is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (Ascap) in Los Angeles. [More]
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toonzone.net reports that the Rankin/Bass 1977 ‘The Hobbit’ and the 1980 ‘The Return of the King’ cartoons will be airing on The Cartoon Network in May. [More]
Ataahua writes: During the weekend the Women in Film and Television World Summit wound up in Auckland, NZ, which was attended by delegates from around the world. At the end of the summit LOTR script writer Fran Walsh and costume designer Ngila Dickson each walked away with an award: Fran with the International Achievement Award for her role in LOTR, and Ngila with the Outstanding Achievement Award.
Faye-Elf writes: I don’t know if anyone else has reported this but I saw Elijah Wood filming on location in London yesterday afternoon. [More]
Faye-Elf writes: I don’t know if anyone else has reported this but I saw Elijah Wood filming on location in London yesterday afternoon (25-April).
While coming home from work at 4.30pm I accidentally stumbled upon a film crew making that movie about the football hooligans that he is doing at the moment. They were filming a fight scene outside the main entrance of Fenchurch Street train station.
Elijah was getting beaten up by another man and he had blood all down his face and looked pretty rough. Unfortunately there were lots of police and film crew around so we didn’t get the chance to talk to him, but thought this might be of interest.
Ian McKellen is set to receive an Honarary degree at Leeds University on April 29th. The ceremony will include the conferment of honorary degrees upon Jack Charlton, Tony Harrison, Dame Julie Higgins, Sir Ken Morrison, Baroness (Usha) Prashar and Professors David Rhodes and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. [More]