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Latest news as of Saturday, July 4, 2009
| Tuesday, June 9, 2009 |
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| Sir Ian McKellen urges for more roles for mature actresses |
Lord of the Rings star Sir Ian McKellen has called for playwrights to create more stage and screen roles for older actresses, calling on broadcasters to change their attitudes towards actresses aged over 45. Over 4,000 people, including Harry Potter actresses Julie Walters and Imelda Staunton, have signed a petition supporting the cause. [more...]
Source: New Kerala |
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| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 |
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| Tolkien now available as digital e-books |
Digital e-versions of the J.R.R. Tolkien's multimillion-selling "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy were released Monday, with "The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun" planned for next month, publisher HarperCollins announced. The Harry Potter books are still not available as digital downloads. [more...]
Source: MSNBC |
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| Tuesday, March 31, 2009 |
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| Viggo Mortensen gets political |
Viggo Mortensen has warned Americans not to relax. The Lord of the Rings star said no matter how good a government, they will say anything to get your vote and the public must pay attention to what is being done in their country. He said, "The problem is when you don't pay attention." [more...]
Source: Metro, UK |
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| Monday, March 16, 2009 |
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| Lord of the Rings quests from EA to Warner Brothers |
Electronic Arts is suffering a loss of one of their top licensed franchises, as their deal with New Line Cinema for Lord of the Rings-based games ended at the end of 2008, and the franchise franchise has come back to New Line's parent company, Warner Brothers, valuable with the promise of two Hobbit films coming in 2011 and 2012. [more...]
Source: Kombo |
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| Thursday, January 22, 2009 |
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| Emma Watson among plate designers |
The BBC has announced a raft of celebrities from the worlds of showbiz and sport who have been enlisted to create their own designer dinner plates for a special auction in aid of its annual appeal, Mission Nutrition. Top names including Emma Watson and Andy Serkis have all contributed to the auction. [more...]
Source: Look to the Stars |
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| Monday, January 19, 2009 |
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| Original Hobbits returning for Rings prequels? |
In what we can only describe a bizarre turn of events, Dominic "Merry" Monaghan has said that the team developing The Hobbit want the original band to return for the prequels. "They really want us to come back, and I think there's a really strong chance that we might be back," he told MTV. [more...]
Source: Total Film |
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| Saturday, January 17, 2009 |
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| Review: New Lord of the Rings game fails to conquer |
Lord of the Rings: Conquest, the first "big" game of the year, was released on Friday. But sadly you needn't rush out and spend your Christmas vouchers on this one. Tolkein fans may get some initial enjoyment, but gamers generally are better off working through 2008's release deluge rather than diving into Middle Earth. [more...]
Source: The Guardian, UK |
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| Dominic Monaghan: I'd go back to Lost in a heartbeat |
Not many actors could go from playing a sing-songy hobbit in the fantastical "Lord of the Rings" trilogy to playing a sing-songy drug user in the fantastic "Lost," but Dominic Monaghan has never been comfortable with being boxed in. His next project premiered this weekend at Slamdance, and will soon be starring in "Wolverine." [more...]
Source: New York Post |
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| Andy Serkis talks about The Hobbit |
ComingSoon.net talked to Andy Serkis, who stars in the January 23 fantasy-adventure Inkheart, about returning to performance capture in The Hobbit. He said, "I am going to really be looking forward to it. I mean the combination between he and Peter is extraordinary as well. I know they are writing at the moment." [more...]
Source: Coming Soon |
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| Thursday, January 15, 2009 |
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| He could have been either Gandalf or Dumbledore |
Patrick McGoohan has passed away at the age of 81. Best known to a generation as Number Six from the iconic TV show The Prisoner, with a career that spanned nearly half a century, McGoohan was reportedly the first choice to play both The Lord of the Rings' Gandalf and Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films, but turned both down. [more...]
Source: Pop Culture Zoo |
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| Friday, January 9, 2009 |
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| The battle for Middle Earth |
Guillermo del Toro is a controversial choice to take over on The Hobbit from Peter Jackson. Can he satisfy the fans? There is no doubt that Del Toro knows how to direct wonderful, personal, unique films, but his Hellboy movies have been good, not great, and his studio debut Mimic was by all accounts a disaster. [more...]
Source: The Independent, UK |
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| Thursday, January 8, 2009 |
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| Kenneth Branagh and Timothy Spall coming to US TV |
Kenneth Branagh, Ian McKellen and Timothy Spall will all appear this spring on PBS. Branagh hits US TV in murder mystery Wallander, scheduled to air in May. McKellen will appear in his acclaimed portrayal of King Lear. And Timothy Spall will be on PBS as well, in a new two-part version of Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist. [more...]
Source: Hello Magazine |
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| Online Tolkien course offered by Cardiff University |
Cardiff University is offering an on-line course on Tolkien taught in 10 weekly units by Dr Dimitra Fimi. The students will be able to explore Tolkien's Middle-earth from their home, in their own time. They will examine the vast mythology behind The Lord of the Rings and gain a thorough knowledge of Tolkien's fiction. [more...]
Source: The One Ring |
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| Tuesday, January 6, 2009 |
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| New Tolkien books to be published in May |
HarperCollins is to publish a new book by the late Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, edited and introduced by Tolkien's son Christopher, will be published in hardback in May 2009. The previously unpublished work was written during the 1920s and '30s, before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. [more...]
Source: The Bookseller |
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| Friday, January 2, 2009 |
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| Lord of the Rings: Conquest demo hits Xbox Live |
In celebration of the new year, developer Pandemic has released an Xbox 360 demo of its upcoming battleground game, The Lord of the Rings: Conquest. Released on PlayStation 3 last week, the 1GB demo allows players to pick a side, hop online and fight in 16-person battles for the future of Middle-earth. [more...]
Source: Shack News |
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| Saturday, December 27, 2008 |
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| Lord of the Rings: Conquest coming in January |
Pandemic Studios has announced that The Lord of the Rings: Conquest for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Nintendo DS platforms, will ship January 9 internationally and January 13 in the U.S. Set in the Lord of the Rings universe as depicted in the films, players will finally fight the epic battles any way they want. [more...]
Source: Virgin Games News |
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| Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
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| Potted Potter onstage in London |
With no new Harry Potter film in the offing, Potter addicts may find moments of comfort in the entertainingly daft parody, Potted Potter, in which Dan and Jeff Turner squash the seven Potter books into 70 minutes, and this includes a fragment from The Lord of the Rings and a glimpse of the Narnia wardrobe. [more...]
Source: The Times, London |
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| Monday, December 22, 2008 |
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| The Hobbit pushed back to 2012 |
According to reports, Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit may be postponed until 2012. The movie, to be released in two parts, was due to shoot in New Zealand this winter but has reportedly had its start date shifted to 2010. Guillermo del Toro will direct the fantasy epic, with Peter Jackson serving as producer. [more...]
Source: Movies.ie, Ireland |
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| Monday, December 1, 2008 |
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| Hollywood auction includes signed Harry Potter books |
A complete set of Harry Potter books signed by J.K. Rowling, and a three-volume collection of The Lord of the Rings signed by J.R.R. Tolkien will be included in the Profiles in History's Hollywood auction, to be held Dec. 11 in Calabasas, California. Also in the auction will be Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from Star Wars. [more...]
Source: AZ Central |
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| Monday, October 13, 2008 |
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| Guillermo Del Toro promises Hobbit films will be one continuous journey |
About the script meetings for the upcoming Hobbit film, director Guillermo Del Toro said, "The reality is that we stopped talking the first movie and second movie, and we just started taking about the movie - the two episodes, or two parts, as if they were a single piece of narrative." [more...]
Source: MTV Movies Blog |
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| Tuesday, May 17, 2005 |
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| Thursday, October 7, 2004 |
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| Lord of the Rings exhibit is spectacular |
I recently atended the museum exhibit of the Lord of the Rings currently going on in Boston MA, and it was a spectacular. I was so impressed with the displays. The workmanship that you see on the DVDs can't be compared to seeing it up close and personal. [more...]
Source: Wizard News |
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| Thursday, September 30, 2004 |
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| Howard Shore spins magic at Royal Albert Hall |
Howard Shore's music for the Lord of the Rings trilogy has reached an unprecedented number of people, via the films, CDs and regular broadcasts on the radio. So when he arrived in London last week to conduct two performances of the symphonic work, it was an opportunity not to be missed! [more...]
Source: Wizard News |
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