Daniel Reeve, (LOTR Calligrapher, Cartographer and Artist), is leading a 7 Day Tour of Northern New Zealand, October 3rd to 10th,for people interested in developing their artistic talent while enjoying scenic Northland, NZ. The tour includes an overnight cruise in the beautiful Bay of Islands and visits to stunning remote locations. For those who may want it, a ‘Lord of the Rings Tour’ throughout NZ follows this. Details are on Red Carpet
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Five Oscars and four Baftas are recognition for a body of work in the film industry, but a knighthood for Weta Workshop’s Richard Taylor is reward beyond the realm of his imagination. Sir Richard, 45, who has won the movie awards for his work with Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, has been knighted in this year’s Queen’s Birthday honours list.
It comes after he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, and was Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and 2007, among other honours. More..
This weeks guests on TheOneRing.net Radio Show are WETAs Richard Taylor and LOTR/King Kong DVD producer Michael Pellerin!
Click on over to BlogTalkRadio to hear Richard talk about the LOTR Blu0ray DVD, and to chat live with Michael! The show airs May 16th at 2pm Eastern. Click here for more info!
Richard Taylor, ONZM, is the creator and head of New Zealand film prop and special effects company Weta Workshop. A close friend of Peter Jackson, he and his company created all of the props, costumes, prosthetics, miniatures and weaponry for Jackson’s epic The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. For his work on the three films, he shared in winning four Academy Awards. This included two for The Fellowship of the Ring in Make Up and Visual Effects, and two for The Return of the King in Costume Design and Make Up.
Michael Pellerin, founder and CEO of Pellerin Multimedia, Inc. (PMI), is an award-winning DVD producer and filmmaker. He and his PMI team have produced more than 100 hours of behind-the-scenes documentaries for DVDs and earned numerous honors, including The DVD Academy’s “Best Disc of the Year” three years in a row for the Collector’s Editions of The Lord of the Rings, produced for New Line Cinema.
For the past five years, PMI, a Los Angeles- and New Zealand-based company, has worked with Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson on all of his films, producing all the behind-the-scenes material for The Rings trilogy and, most recently, Universal’s King Kong.
Eregian writes: I just found out Howard Shore will be one of 10 soundtrack composers attending the World Soundtrack Awards (WSA) in Ghent (Belgium) on October 23. The WSA is part of the ‘Flanders International Film Festival’.
The awards always feature live music performances while film excerpts play in the background. The conductor will be Dirk Brossé, who is currently touring with ‘Star Wars in Concert’. I think this will be a great opportunity to see Shore’s music played live with the added bonus of 9 other high-profile film composers. More..
Evie writes: A new Musical Score award will be presented at the Munich Filmfest for the first time 2010. The new Film Music Prize will be awarded to Howard Shore, who composed the score to “The Lord of the Rings”, “Gangs of New York” and “Silence of the Lambs”. The awards ceremony will take place as part of the “Cinema in Concert” gala on June 24th in Munich’s Circus Krone. The award carries a purse of Euro 10,000 and is donated by Bavarian Broadcasting and pubweb world sales unit Telepool. More.. Continue reading “New Score Award for Howard Shore”
Michelle Lee from The Hair and Makeup Artist Network sends this in: I just wanted to let you know we are having a networking dinner with John Slowsky the pre-production art director from Lord of the Rings. Details are attached if you would like to post them to the site. More..