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Briton beats Jackson to next Rings movie |
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From the NZ Herald
(By Alanah May Eriksen)
'The Brits are to beat Kiwi-born director Peter Jackson in creating the next Lord of the Rings movie.
But the new film won't have the $166 million budget the other movies had or the backdrop of green New Zealand pastures and snowy mountains.
An amateur film-maker from England is digging into her own pocket, appealing to sponsors and has hired several actors willing to work for free to make a not-for-profit movie inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels.
Born of Hope has been touted as a fan film but director Kate Madison is trying to shake off the term as she says it brings the illusion of "a bunch of teenage guys getting together holding shaky cameras on their shoulders".
The movie is set before the Jackson-directed trilogy and follows Arathorn and Gilraen - parents of Aragorn, a main character in all three films - from their first meeting through a turbulent time in their people's history.
The story stems from a couple of paragraphs written by Tolkien in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings but Madison, with the help of an American writer, have made up the bulk of the script.
"I'm the writer, director and the producer of this movie," she told the Herald from her home in Cambridge, England. "But if you want to break it down I'm also everything in between - stylist, head of wardrobe. This movie is my life at the moment."
Madison - who also plays the character of Elgarain, a character not created by Tolkien but inspired by his work - first had the idea of doing a Lord of the Rings movie in 2003 after seeing an advertisement for a Tolkien fan film-making competition.
The 29-year-old put out a casting call and received more than 100 CVs back. But she soon realised how much work she had created for herself and put off doing the movie. She picked it up again in 2006 after making her directing debut in a low-budget film Into the Darkness.
Born of Hope has a core cast of about 15 but Madison says more than 100 minor characters and crew have helped out so far.
Jackson is reported to have had a budget of US$94 million ($166 million) for each of his three movies but Madison hopes Born of Hope will cost no more than £25,000 ($65,500). Most of the props are borrowed and the actors turn up when they are not doing paid work.
Jackson's trilogy was shot in 150 locations around New Zealand, but much of the shooting for Born of Hope is being done in West Stow, Suffolk. Parts are also being filmed in Epping Forest, near London, for some of the Middle Earth locations and Madison is also hoping to film in Snowdonia, a North Wales national park.
Because of copyright rules, no money can be made from the unlicensed film. People will be able to download it from the internet once it is made. Madison hopes to release the film at Ring Con, a fantasy convention in Germany, in October next year.
Jackson is the co-writer and executive producer of the film version of Tolkien's The Hobbit, set to be released in 2011.
Madison has been given the thumbs-up from Wellington's Weta Workshop director Richard Taylor, who created all the props for the trilogy. He left a message on the film's website saying: "Amazing stuff. It's incredible to see what craftsmanship, sensitivity and attention to detail is being brought to bear on this ambitious project.
"Everything so far looks amazing and I can't wait to see the finished project."
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Monday, November 17, 2008 - 05:59 PM
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Guillermo del Toro: “I’m so voracious about The Hobbit!” |
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From Theonering.net:
" Guillermo Del Toro was recently in New York City as part of the New Yorker Festival and our good pal Anthony Moody from Indalo Productions caught up with him to talk all things Hobbit! In this first part of the interview GDT talks about his writing duties with PJ, Tom Bombadil and the possibility of a THIRD Hobbit movie(?!). Stay tuned for the second part of this interview next week! More follow later next week as well! ..."
theonering.net
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Saturday, October 18, 2008 - 02:11 PM
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Warner Brothers to release a LOTR soundtrack “Rarities Archive” |
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From Theonering.net:
"After spending Bilbo and Frodo’s birthday week riddling, Doug Adams announced what the ‘other major release’ his book will be tied to: LOTR: THE RARITIES ARCHIVE, scheduled for release in the fourth quarter 2009. There will be substantially more rarities material released. Doug’s initial project was limited in terms of budget (buying rights from Warner Brothers). WBR owns all this so licensing rights is not an issue. Doug wrote:
“This means that CONSIDERABLY more music is now available for the project! You will see why this qualifies as something “major,” I promise. And as I’ve said, there is some incredible LOTR music that no one has ever heard.”
It can get a bit confusing even to those of us who keep abreast of the subject so I’m going to be very methodical and touch on what’s already been relesed, what we know will be released in the future and what is new as of September 26."
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Friday, October 03, 2008 - 03:59 PM
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Director of Photography Guillermo Navarro on The Hobbit |
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Mike Browne: "Last weekend at the Vancouver International Film Festival's New Filmmaker Day, Quinn, Patrick and myself sat down with well known and award winning director of photography, Guillermo Navarro, for a video interview. We found Navarro, who won an Oscar (and many other awards) for the other Guillermo's (del Toro) film, Pan's Labyrinth, to be open and wonderfully candid about all we questioned him on."
Watch the clip here:
Movieset.com
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Friday, October 03, 2008 - 03:58 PM
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David Wenham in upcoming 'Public Enemies' |
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The upcoming film 'Public Enemies' (Michael Mann directing) is now in post-production, and along with David Wenham has a great cast including Christian Bale (Melvin Purvis) Johnny Depp (John Dillinger) and Billy Crudup. (J. Edgar Hoover)
The film is about Feds trying to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during the 1930's.
Wenham plays a gangster named Pete Pierpont, who was best known as being friend and mentor of John Dillinger.
The film is due out in the summer of 2009.
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Monday, September 22, 2008 - 02:47 PM
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Aragorn to appear in bridge movie to 'The Hobbit'? |
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Viggo Mortensen was asked by SCOOP whether he has been approached about reprising his role as Aragorn in the bridge movie to 'The Hobbit'. Here's what he had to say (video clip)
Scoop.co.nz
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Saturday, September 20, 2008 - 02:09 PM
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Weta Digital Builds NZ Facility |
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"September 5, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Digital visual effects studio Weta Digital (wetadigital.com) announced on Friday it has completed building its new extreme density data center in Miramar, New Zealand."
Full article:
thewhir.com
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Thursday, September 11, 2008 - 05:31 PM
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Tolkien-themed CD to launch in Wellington |
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ASni writes:
"I’ve been working hard promoting my CD launch in the last few weeks. For those interested, below is my media release. I have finally managed to do a little work on my “Travelguide to Middle-earth” section, at least the photos and the info in this press release are online now, and it looks a wee bit nicer.
If you live anywhere near enough Wellington, please do note the date of the launch in your calendar! It is intended to be a bit of a farewell gig, since I plan to focus on things other than performing in the future - it may be quite a while until you get another chance to see and hear me live! So, do come - and don’t say you haven’t been warned."
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Posted by: Locksley -
on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 06:59 PM
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