[Lotr_announce] This Week on TheOneRing.net

[Michael Regina]

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Exclusive: TORn's interview with Richard Taylor

With the release this week of the Lord of the Rings trilogy for the first
time on Blu-ray, Warner Bros. offered TheOneRing.net the chance to speak to
with Richard Taylor, head of Weta Workshops. Taylor and partner Tania Rodger
famously built the New Zealand special effects house first from their
Wellington, New Zealand flat in 1987 and expanded it dramatically in 1994
when bringing in Peter Jackson. Since then it has grown into one of the
elite special effects houses in the world, producing the wonders seen in
films like the LOTR trilogy, King Kong, and Avatar, just to name a very few,
and all of this across the ocean from the U.S. Film Industry, building what
director Guillermo del Toro called, "Hollywood the way God intended it." 

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/04/09/36113-exclusive-torns-interview-w
ith-richard-taylor/ 

 

A $500M glimmer of hope on the MGM front?

Investors want to give MGM $500 million to start making new productions
according to Nikki Finke at Deadline.com. Relativity Media, backed by a
hedge fund, must see the profit potential in projects and properties like
"The Hobbit" and further James Bond films. The report says this offer was
made three weeks ago which means they probably weren't following TORn's
advice, but maybe those holding MGM's $3.7 billion debt will, and allow this
to happen.

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/04/08/36088-a-500m-glimmer-of-hope-on-t
he-mgm-front/ 

 

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