March 2004
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I'm afraid we've got some really bad news. A while ago we created some really cool tee-shirt designs. We love these designs, and were certain you guys would too, so we printed off 400 copies. Here are the tee-shirts in all their glory:
Anyway it seems PJ wasn't as impressed as we would have hoped. To cut a long story short, we recieved this fax from PJ this morning:
Dear Mr Jackson, Your Highness, God, or whatever we're meant to call you now
It has pained us all to see how you have changed in recent months, and we wish we could say that your fax came as a surprise. We have done as you said, and TBHL is now just an empty website waiting for the clock to run before we can sell the domain name.
We put our hearts and souls into this site and we did it because we wanted to share with the world the joy we experienced when we viewed your work. We stood by you though most of us thought your move into fantasy films was tantamount to you selling your soul and artistic integrity to Satan. We've delivered news on orcs, hobbits, elves, wizards and other characters that frankly we couldn't give three shits about. We've answered emails from sad, greasy little Tolkienite fanboys wanting to tell you what was wrong with Aragorn's swords, Arwen's jewellery or Gimli's beard. We couldn't care less! We've smiled and nodded and said "ahhh isn't the LOTR trilogy fantastic" when all we wanted was a sequel to Bad Taste!
You've let us down. And with your decision to shut TBHL down, you've broken our hearts and left us in financial ruin. We have a warehouse full of t-shirts that we can't sell, not to mention the mouse mats and boxer shorts. But it's OK, you sit on your millions and millions of dollars (and one pair of shoes), threatening lawyers and being the sell-out Hollywood asshole that everyone said you would never become.
Well, we've done what you asked. I guess that brings everything to an end and there's nothing more to say, you bastard. And that's *swearing*.
Lewis Davies
Pete Gunter
Sam Harris
Hamish Towgood
So I'm afraid it seems that this is goodbye. I don't know what to say really. I'm so incredibly sad that this should happen. We're really going to miss running TBHL, and we hope you've had as much fun reading it as we have maintaining it.Bye folks, we love you all,
-The TBHL team
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Adrien Brody (The Pianist) is in talks with Universal Pictures to join the cast of Peter Jackson's King Kong, says Variety.
The Oscar winner has been offered the role of Jack Driscoll, a former World War I fighter pilot who is the love interest for archaeologist Ann Darrow, to be played by Naomi Watts.
On Monday, the studio announced that Jack Black will play showman Carl Denham who brings the giant gorilla to New York City from Skull Island.
Filling the Driscoll role is the last major casting to be done for the film, adds the trade. In the 1933 original, Driscoll spends much of the film trying to rescue Ann Darrow from Kong after the ape takes a liking to the beauty.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Comic actor Jack Black has been in cast alongside Naomi Watts in Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong," the director said Monday.
Black will play Carl Denham, an adventurer filmmaker who is trying to make a name for himself in 1930s New York. Robert Armstrong played the role in the 1933 original. (Jackson has said he is pretending the 1976 update does not exist.)
Watts is playing Ann Darrow, an American actress who makes a living performing in Broadway song and dance shows. The project, which will shoot in Jackson's native New Zealand, is set up at Universal Pictures.
"I've been wanting to work with Jack Black ever since I saw him in High Fidelity," said Jackson, who is also writing the remake along with his "Lord of the Rings" co-screenwriters Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. "He's a smart and versatile actor blessed with an abundance of energy and charm and I'm absolutely thrilled that he is joining us on 'Kong."'
Black earned a Golden Globe nomination this year for his starring role in last fall's hit comedy "The School of Rock." His other credits include "Orange County" and "Shallow Hal."
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from BBC News Online Director Peter Jackson enjoyed a celebratory homecoming after his Oscar triumph with a civic ceremony in his hometown of Wellington, New Zealand. Jackson and his fellow Oscar winners were presented with glass goblets after winning 11 Oscars for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. "If there was an Oscar for the best city to make a movie in, it would be Wellington," Jackson told 2,500 fans. The event was low-key compared to the film's world premiere in December. The ceremony was held in an indoor sports hall due to poor weather. The celebrations were delayed until this week because Jackson was busy preparing the DVD version of The Lord of the Rings and making plans for his re-make of King Kong. Jackson said his "second proudest moment" after winning the Oscars was being named as one of the worst-dressed participants.
"I thought that was pretty cool," he said.
Local cartoonist Tom Scott introduced Jackson by saying city mayor Kerry Prendergast had rung him asking what they could give the director that he did not already have.
"I said, how about an iron," Scott said.
Jackson revealed how the Lord of the Rings team had been told off for making too much noise on Oscars night by hotel staff, who also refused to sell them champagne after two in the morning.
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Yes, the TBHL team's innermost thoughts are now available to you 24-7 via 'Stupid Bastards', our new weblog. Come along to point and laugh with us (or at us, we can take it) as we show off some of the more, ahem, interesting emails we get. Click here to visit Stupid Bastards
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(from BBC News) The Return of the King, the last in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, will be released on DVD and video three months sooner than expected. The film, which won 11 Oscars last month, will be released on 25 May, producers New Line said. The date is three months ahead of the time the first two films were released in 2002 and 2001. An extended version of the film - including previously unseen footage - will follow at the end of the year. The initial DVD release of the film will include the film, as well as a 20-minute theatrical trailer and a range of behind-the-scenes material. 11-hour trilogy The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers were also released with extended versions on DVD. The extended version of the film - which will be considerably longer than the three hours and 21 minutes in the theatrical version - will make the trio of extended versions more than 11 hours long. The DVD is expected to be one of the year's biggest releases. New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who won best director at the Oscars for Return of the King, is soon to begin work on his version of the 1933 adventure King Kong. It is due for release in 2005.
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image from www.stuff.co.nz
Well, the 76th Academy Awards belonged to Middle Earth. And quite right too. It seemed towards the end that the audience in the Kodak Theatre were getting tired of Kiwis being thanked left, right, and centre but you know what? After seven years of graft, they deserved it.
"Peter Jackson should be nominated for best turned-out director. Hair by Worzel Gummidge, clothes by Poundstretcher." - emailed comment during the BBC1 broadcast.
The highlights of the awards included Fran Walsh winning, alongside Annie Lennox, the Best Song award and Fran, Phillipa Boyens and Peter picking up Best Adapted Screenplay.
image from BBC Online
The stand-out moment for Bastards all around the world came when Tom Cruise, everybody's favourite smiling guy, arrived to present the award for Best Director. This is the moment we had been waiting for, but I certainly couldn't help thinking that PJ may lose out to Clint Eastwood or Sofia Coppola. But I was wrong, and there he was, our PJ, making his way to the stage to accept the award that he has deserved for so long. Not just for Return of the King, or the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But for his passion and dedication to film-making right from the time he got that camera from his parents.
Congratulations, you Bastard!
And then the final award. Presented by Steven Spielberg (remember him? ;)). Best Motion Picture. And the whole gang descended on the stage! Hobbits, dwarves, elves and wizards were all there as Oscar celebrated the fantastic achievement that is the Lord of The Rings trilogy. So we wait with baited breath for news of King Kong, and hopefully a similar clean sweep in the 2006 Oscars.
Competition Time!
To celebrate ROTK kicking arse for the Lord (of the Rings), we are giving away two fantastic signed books, courtesy of the beautiful, Oscar-winning people at Wingnut Films. All you have to do is match the quote to the film. And since we are all such devoted fans we should know each and every word of dialogue from each and every film, shouldn't we? ;P
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As my alarm went off at 3.00am, I thought to myself "This had better be worth it." Turned out I had already missed the first five awards! Return of the King has won in every single category it was nominated in: and, the Bastard has indeed landed
Editing
Sound
Make-Up
Costume
Visual Effects
Best Song - Into The West
Best Score
Best Adapted Screenplay
BEST MOTION PICTURE
