3-24-02 Latest News

Oscar Update #5
sam @ 11:35 pm EST

Bollocks!

LOTR has just been robbed of best adapted screenplay. Still, there's always next year.

Sam

Oscar Update #4
sam @ 10:43 pm EST

Howard Shore has just taken the Oscar for best score.

Go on guys, down one for the Fellowship!

Sam

Oscar Update
Lewman @ 10:35 pm EST

Well its been intresting so far. I think we have been robbed of a few oscars, I mean editing should have been won by Memento or LOTR, but Black hawk down? what the fuck is all that about?? I mean I see reflections of the BAFTAS with Skrek winning Best adapted screenplay !!!

Well our drinking stump is becoming rather bland, we need more wine, donations accepted generously! :) Come join Lewman and Renos LOTR party ;p

Oscar Update #3
sam @ 10:24 pm EST

More congratulations to Richard Taylor and all at Weta - LOTR have just won the Oscar for Best Visual Effects.

Oscar Update #2
sam @ 9:37 pm EST

LOTR has just taken the Cinematography award. :)

Congrats to Andrew Lesnie.

Oscar Live Update #1
sam @ 9:13 pm EST

First award in the bag for LOTR goes to Richard Taylor and the crew at Weta for make-up. Lost out on Editing to Black Hawk Down.

The ceremony is still young - still into the first hour. More updates to come!

Hey Lewman - time to down a Guinness!

Sam

3-05-02 Latest News

Peter Jackson Accepts Honour
BadTaste_nz @ 11:01 pm EST

This from www.xtra.co.nz
Peter Jackson has been honoured at Government House in Wellington today.
The Lord of the Rings director was invested as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
His partner, Fran Walsh, who co-produced the first film was also invested as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
Following on from last week's BAFTA award for best director, Peter Jackson says it's a real privilege to receive yet more recognition.
He is also up for best director at this month's Academy Awards in the United States.

2-24-02 Latest News

The BAFTAs Have Landed!
sam @ 5:16 pm EST

The Fellowship of the Ring has swept the board at the BAFTAs, winning BEST FILM, BEST DIRECTOR, BEST FILM AUDIENCE CHOICE, VISUAL EFFECTS and HAIR & MAKE UP.

Peter Jackson was there to accept the awards, and it was especially touching to see him receive the Best Director award from Kate Winslet.

PJ thanked all the cast and crew of FOTR, and on a personal note thanked his Mum and Dad, partner Fran and children Billy and Kate.

Congratulations PJ, we always knew you were a talented bastard! :)

For more information visit the BAFTA website:
http://www.bafta.org/3_film/3_WINNERS.htm

PJ and LOTR and the BAFTAS
Lewman @ 5:15 pm EST

Well I've just been watching them on BBC one. And WOW! waht an amazing night for PJ and the whole crew on LOTR.

So here are the results of the 2001 BAFTAS

Out of the catogories that Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring was nominated for (see earlier news article) it won:

The orange audience film of the year

Best director of the Year

Best Film of the Year

It should of so won best adapted screenplay, but bloody Skrek won!! where is the logic in that, its a god damn animated film!! But its still great to hear that LOTR has won many of the most important catogries.

It also won the special effects award and another award, but I can't bloody remember it! :) hehe

I was playing a drinking game with my mates in the house at the time, whenever PJ and crew won an award we would down a pint of guinness.. hehe So excuse all punctuation and spelling mistakes ;p

But a superb night for LOTR PJ looked great in his tux... Although he was caught off guard wen he was having his photo taken for best director and had to run onto the stage for best film. Never seen the poor man run so fast! lol

So here's for Pete and Co. WOOOP!

2-21-02 Latest News

Intresting UK related LOTR DVD news
Lewman @ 4:38 pm EST

Here's a great rumor from a trade source. Remember we have no confirmation, no proof and indeed no evidence that the following is true !

Apparently New Line are not happy with the way that EiV have been handling their product in terms of sales and presentation. New Line believe that EiV are 'cheapening the product'. There is supposedly concern over "Lord of the Rings", especially as EiV have declined to license the 4 disk version of the film set for release in the States much later in the Year.

Now if we bring Warner Bros in to the equation, who essentially own New Line, things start to become interesting. Are Warner Bros trying to get control of "Lord of the Rings" in the U.K ? Remember, Warner took control of the film in Germany last December when Kinowelt was in danger of Bankruptcy. If Warner could add the "Lord of the Rings" franchise and other New Line films to it's video product line it would have some interesting consequences:

Warner Bros UK would have the best year possible, "Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter" will be the two biggest selling disks this year, probably even outselling "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones" if it gets released in October

Having control of "Lord of the Rings" would allow Warner to release a day and date VHS retail copy of the film. Getting Retail and Rental releases into sync is something Warner Bros are known to be keen to do.

Warner Bros would also have the new "Austin Powers" movie added to their slate, something that would do the year end sales no end of good !

Take this all with a pinch of salt, we've no proof that anything of the sort is going to happen, but it would be great if it did !

2-12-02 Latest News

PJ, Meet OSCAR...
sam @ 10:55 am EST

http://www.oscars.com/nominees/synopsis_lordoftherings.html

Fellowship of the Ring is up for THIRTEEN Academy Awards! They are:

Actor in a Supporting Role
Art Direction
Cinematography
Costume Design
Directing
Film Editing
Makeup
Music (Score)
Music (Song)
Best Picture
Sound
Visual Effects
Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

Tune in on 24 March to see how many little gold men PJ gets!

Sam

2-06-02 Latest News

2002 Empire Movie Awards
sam @ 5:01 am EST

The Fellowship of The Ring took 3 awards at yesterday's Empire Movie Awards.

Best Debut went to Orlando Bloom
Best Actor went to Elijah Wood
And, of course, Best Film

Sadly PJ, lost out on Best Director to Moulin Rouge's Baz Luhrmann. Still, there's next year. Or the year after...

For acceptance speeches, pics etc., visit Empire Online

12-30-01 Latest News

New Year Honours List
BadTaste_nz @ 5:07 pm EST

From New Zealand Herald


Peter Jackson has been made a Companion Of The New Zealand Order Of Merit (CNZM) for his services in the film industry.

Fran Walsh was made a Member Of The New Zealand Order Of Merit (MNZM).

Their partnership was the driving force behind the Lord Of The Rings trilogy.


Its not a SIR Peter Jackson, but its getting there.

What's Next For Derek?
Lewman @ 8:57 am EST

From www.aintitcool.com

Hey folks, Harry here. Sure we've officially hit the less than 48 hours till those Midnight Tuesday Screenings of FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, and the official shortness of breath and raised blood pressure that comes with the final part of the countdown for many of you.

Many will begin focusing on the next two chapters of the Tolkien Epic that Peter Jackson has captured on celluloid. Me, well admittedly, I'm dying to see pictures of Ents attacking, Shelob vs dirty little hobbits. Fearful and hopeful about the end results of Andy Serkis and Randall Cook's acting/animation. Ok, so my hands are shaking in anticipation.

However, given that I spent four and a half hours of attendance at the Alamo Drafthouse this fine Sunday afternoon to watch every iota of detail about the making of THE FRIGHTENERS. Watching Peter describe that while he was handling the editing on HEAVENLY CREATURES, he and Fran Walsh were hatching the plans for FRIGHTENERS. Well, the thought hit me. He's now got basically 2 and a half years of post on an astoundingly long shoot.

On those long plane trips around the world... What's Fran Walsh, Richard Taylor and Peter Jackson brainstorming about? Has Richard begun sketching something? Sculpting something? What words have been hitting Fran and Peter's reams of paper.

I had heard that Fran and Peter had a smaller, more intimate story set in New Zealand to shoot next. 1Something that didn't have armies of production folks, something small to keep their center. To have a nice relaxing pleasant shoot.

Then there is KING KONG floating out there in the ether somewhere. However, with Universal removing the KING KONG attractions from their park in Florida in favor of a stupid SCORPION KING attraction... It'll take a miracle to see that going. (You hearing me Movie Gods? A Miracle Please?)

Peter and Fran also wrote a really wonderful CONCRETE script based on that Dark Horse comic. What's happening with that? Anybody's guess right now.
However, word has just hit me from Middle Earth of a new project that is stirring in Jackson's insane brain.

When I spent time with Peter at his house, up in the attic where he stores his toys, models and collections, Peter had a major collector fetish that I had been unaware of. WORLD WAR I. It fascinates him. In fact, Viggo Mortensen scoured rare bookshops from one end of New Zealand to another to amass a collection of history books detailing the Kiwi side of WORLD WAR I. In his attic he had uniforms, original E.C. comic art of John Severin's, I believe from a FRONTLINE COMBAT issue or perhaps an ACES HIGH depicting in Severin's crisp clean line work, the aerial battlework of biplanes. I remember speculating at the time... How long till Peter Jackson makes his World War 1 epic?

Well, thanks to the palantir I left behind in New Zealand word has hit me that Peter and allegedly some folks at Weta, have begun playing around with ideas for a World War I feature film. Afterall with the digital tools that Weta developed for the creation of LORD OF THE RINGS, turning those same MASSIVE tools to work on World War I would be quite an easy retrofit.

Now, before you think that this is Peter's Spielberging out trip, you haven't heard it all. My spy has heard that while it is a World War 1 story, that is just a starting off point. Apparently, this is Peter's stab at making the largest scale ZOMBIE film ever. At least that's the rumor. A Zombie film of size and scale. Something straight out of the mind of a boy that got his FRONTLINE COMBATs screwed up with his TALES FROM THE CRYPTs in a Famous Monster noggin. Is this true? Is there any collaborative evidence?

Nope, not a peep. It is most likely extremely premature to be talking about it, hell... at this point it might just be a few scribblings on a pair of pages, but that's how FRIGHTENERS started. Two pages in an agent's fax machine. When I wrote Peter about it, I heard not a peep.... Not that that means anything, I've heard he's kinda busy at the moment. Something about a little flick he has opening up. Then again, Peter and I are on opposite sides of the fence at times. Him with his secrets... Me with my ears and eyes.

Let's see what more we can find out about this. What have you heard? Got a ticket to a premiere? Bumping into Peter? Ask him. The least you'll get is a smile and a gleam from those beady eyes of his. And if you do see that gleam, we know. Or at least we'll think we do, and ya know... A Zombie WORLD WAR I film from the director of BRAIN DEAD and LORD OF THE RINGS... well, that sound delicious. Eh? Remember, it's all rumor and subterfuge at the moment, but I remember a time when that was the case with a film opening this Wednesday. Hmmmm....

Get PJ Knighted!!
Lewman @ 8:53 am EST

Yes that's right, our very own Bastard has got a web petition up to get him Knighted. So let's get it done! Here's the e-mail I got from the webmaster of the page.

So why not go visit the site now and go put your entry in ;p