Tag: The Lord of the Rings
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‘Onward’: How Pixar Conjured VFX Magic for Tom Holland’s Elf Wizard
Pixar got to nerd out on fantasy and magic for the first time with “Onward” (March 6), in which two teenage Elf brothers (the McU’s Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) try to resurrect their dad from the dead using a 24-hour magic spell. Think “The Lord of the Rings” meets “Weekend at Bernie’s,” only would-be…
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Christian Rivers To Direct ‘Into Thin Air,’ On Disappearance Of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Exclusive: Christian Rivers has signed on to direct Into Thin Air, a feature drama that explores the unsolved mystery behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The film is a co-production of Illusion Media Entertainment, K. Jam Media, and Altit Media Group and it is being financed by Avi Nakash. He’s the owner of…
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Andy Serkis to receive Bafta for outstanding contribution to cinema
Actor and filmmaker to receive honour at the 2020 Baftas.Actor and filmmaker Andy Serkis is to receive the outstanding British contribution to cinema award at the 2020 Bafta film awards.Serkis is best known for his pioneering performance capture work, portraying Gollum in The Lord Of The Rings and Hobbit films as well as the lead…
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Nicholas Hoult Joins Tom Cruise in Next ‘Mission: Impossible’ Movie
Nicholas Hoult had a rough 2019. No one saw Tolkien, his biopic about the famed author of The Lord of the Rings. No one liked Dark Phoenix, his final X-Men movie. The Current War, in which he plays inventor Nikola Tesla, was greeted with a shrug following a two-year delay. His awards season film, The…
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Sister act: from Killing Eve to Little Women, female friendships finally get top billing
After years of men in the spotlight, now stories about women– and created by women – are taking centre stage at lastAs a teenager, I was led to believe by popular culture that female existence was, roughly, one part seducing men, one part marrying men and one part consoling men returning from battle (I watched…
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Amazon’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ Casts ‘His Dark Materials’ Actress as Young Galadriel
Just a few days after losing actor Will Poulter to scheduling conflicts, Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings show has added another member to its cast. Morfydd Clark – who can currently be seen in a supporting role in another fantasy project, HBO’s His Dark Materials – is reportedly playing a younger version of Galadriel,…
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Paul McCartney Teams With Netflix, Gaumont on Animated ‘High in the Clouds’
Paul McCartney is collaborating with Netflix and Gaumont on the animated feature “High in the Clouds,” based on the children’s novel he wrote with Geoff Dunbar, and Philip Ardagh.McCartney is producing and contributing songs to the film, which centers on an imaginative teenage squirrel named Wirral who find himself pulled into a ramshackle gang of…
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‘The Irishman’ Will Be an Oscar Epic for Netflix
What’s telling about Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” is how few studios were willing to take on its $159-million price tag. Only one company stepped up: Netflix. Since the dawn of Hollywood, the major studios have been willing to gamble on grand ambition and spectacle, from 1927’s first Oscar-winner “Wings” and David Lean’s desert epic “Lawrence…
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Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Will Film in New Zealand, the One True Middle-Earth
The country of New Zealand has become synonymous with The Lord of the Rings, thanks to its vast array of varied landscapes and evocative environments used in Peter Jackson’s two J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired trilogies over the past twenty years. Amazon has been cagey about where it would set up camp for its upcoming The Lord of…
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Amazon Studios to shoot ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ series in New Zealand
J A Bayona set to direct first two episodes.Amazon Studios has confirmed that its The Lord Of The Rings series will shoot in New Zealand, with production set to begin in Auckland “in the coming months,” according to the streaming platform.Local reports first suggested in July that Amazon was close to a deal to shoot…