http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2007/12/18/28150-peter-jackson-and-new-line-cinema-join-with-mgm-to-produce-%e2%80%9cthe-hobbit%e2%80%9d/

More details to come, but this is good news.

I am hearing Guillermo Del Toro as a director, which would be pretty awesome if it's true.

Bringing me down from my Happy Feet buzz, it seems that dreams of Peter Jackson directing The Hobbit -- be it one film or two -- are pretty much overNew Line is managing to brilliantly shoot itself in the foot with this one, IMO. The reason The Hobbit is such an attractive property right now is the chance for the audience to revisit the world they ( Read more... )

Stolen from tzikeh, you are all ON NOTICE!


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Warning. [rant] mode activated.

From here"Summary: Eomer is the king of Rohan. A man comes from a distant country to negotiate trade agreements and brings with him a pet, but not just any pet, a pet Elf ( Read more... )

ETA: My vids have moved! Please see this post for information.

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Did I not post this? I guess I didn't.

My VividCon premiere vid, with feochadn:

Song: Disappearing Man
Artist: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Download from Killa's vid page in either full-size DiVx .avi or half-size quicktime ( Read more... )

I have the sense that this is pretty wankish, but I'm doing it anyway. For one thing a bit of feedback I received recently reminded me that I've already forgotten a lot of the thought process that went into making this vid, so I'd like to try to remember the rest. For another, I'm pretty stuck on everything I'm working on, so I'm hoping that ( Read more... )

A couple of people have written me asking for a high-res version of When I Go, so I set up a YouSendIt file, and it still has a number of downloads available. It's approximately 100 megs and in .mpg format. This is basically the same file used to create the DVD, complete with the leading black space and everything ( Read more... )

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killabeez very graciously hosts my vids on her vid page, and even though I know for a fact she did not arrive home from Escapade until the crack of dawn today after a red-eye flight, she somehow already managed to get new stuff encoded and uploaded already. As ever, she is both ( Read more... )

Vidder: wolfling & mogigraphia
Fandom: Lord of the Rings
Vid: Winter by Tori Amos

A lovely vid about Eowyn and Theoden.

Some intriguing thoughts about making a movie out of the story of the downfall of Numenor. Interesting...