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Happy Birthday Brad Dourif
Brad Dourif was born in Huntington, USA on 18th March 1950 and today is his 55th birthday. You can view pictures of Brad here, of Brad in the role of Grima Wormtongue here and you can read his cast bio here. Many happy returns Brad!
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Lord of the Rings exhibition in Sydney
The closing date for the LotR exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia has been extended from 26th March to 3rd April. The museum is also screening all three of the movies. FotR will be shown on 26th March, TTT on 27th March and RotK on 28th March. There are further details at the museum’s…
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Casting the Lord of the Rings musical
Following on from the news that the LotR musical will premiere in Toronto, theglobeandmail.com has a story about how local actors are hoping to land a part in the new production.
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Lord of the Rings – the musical
The world premiere of The Lord of the Rings musical will take place in Toronto in March 2006. The music is being written by AR Rahman and Varttina. According to director Matthew Warchus, “The production will be a hybrid of text, physical theatre, music and spectacle never previously seen on this scale”. You can read…
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Peter Jackson’s bloopers
The Daily Telegraph has a short report on Peter Jackson’s recent talk in Sydney, Australia, at which he showed some of the bloopers from the LotR movies. These included Aragorn machine gunning some of the bad guys!
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LotR trading card game – Black Rider
The latest articles about Decipher’s new expansion set, Black Rider, are entitled Battlegrounds, Plains, and… Fierce? and Black Rider Deck and Strategy – Rohan/Men.
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Abbey Road Film Festival, London, UK
2005 is the 25th anniversary of Abbey Road studios involvement in film scoring and to mark the occasion the studio is holding a film festival from 19th March to 3rd April. There will be screenings of a number of films associated with the studio including the LotR films. The screening dates are: FotR – 19th,…
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Weta Workshop video
On 27th February Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger of Weta Workshop gave a presentation at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, Australia. Topics covered included; working with Peter Jackson, the work of Alan Lee and meeting the actors. You can now view a video of the presentation at phm.gov.au. Windows Media Player is required
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Happy Anniversary CoE
Today, Sunday 6th March 2005, is CoE’s third anniversary. Happy anniversary CoE!
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Trilogy marathon in Toronto
On 16th April Isometric Projections will screen all three of the LotR movies. The trilogy marathon will be held at the Ontario Place Cinesphere IMAX Theatre, Toronto, starting at 11am and finishing around 9pm. There are also separate screenings of each of the movies; The Fellowship of the Ring – 22nd April, The Two Towers…
