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Sideshow Collectibles is joining in the celebration today:
“This weekend, Sideshow Collectibles.com is proud to join fans of J.R.R. Tolkien world-wide in celebrating the 70th Anniversary of the publication of ‘The Hobbit’! To help add to the celebration, we’ve arranged some special Sideshow mathoms for you! Check out our special LOTR discounts, our new Balrog Legendary Scale bust preview, a brand new LOTR-themed poll, and our ‘Ode to Bilbo’ comment contest, in which you could win a Shelob statue, King of the Dead Statue, a Cave Troll Hammer, or a Crown of the King of the Dead simply for participating. Follow the link to get all the details”
Sideshow Collectibles has just revealed their latest edition to The Lord of the Rings Legendary Scale line-up – The Balrog! The item will pre-order next week at SideshowCollectibles.com, but if you’d like a sneak peak, check out the preview. If you are a collector of the Legendary Scale Bust series, you may want to chime in on their frontpage poll, as it is directly related what you’d like to see created. And last but not least, Sideshow has released a new ‘Backstage Pass’ video on their Gandalf the White Premium Format figure page. If you were on the fence about ordering this piece and wanted some additional information, check it out!
Kiwi director Peter Jackson has won the first round in his fight with Hollywood studio New Line Cinema over profits from The Lord of the Rings. A judge has fined New Line, the film trilogy’s financial backer, $US125,000 ($NZ169,000) for failing to turn over court-ordered documents in the case. The Hollywood Reporter said Jackson’s lawyers might also be allowed to inspect New Line’s files if the studio did not produce several audits within 21 days. New Line must also hire an outsider to collect electronic documents, including e-mails, it said.
Wellywood’s next hit could be on the small screen, with the release today of the PlayStation 3 game Heavenly Sword. The game’s character dynamics are a product of the Weta Digital motion capture studio, which is part-owned by Peter Jackson. Jackson helped to develop the game version of his 2005 blockbuster King Kong, and Weta Digital’s graphics were used in the Lord of the Rings’ gaming equivalent. Jackson is leading the development of a series of games for PlayStation’s main rival, Microsoft, based on the Halo franchise. Halo 3, due out next week, is expected to raise the stakes in the international game market.
Starting in 2001, movie fans from around the globe came to know and love Viggo Mortensen as the noble, charismatic leader Aragorn in “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. But for his last two major film projects, his characters have teetered in the middle before traveling to the opposite end of the heroic spectrum, proving that he’s not so concerned with his screen image as much as he is finding complex, challenging roles to get his hands dirty. Who says you can’t tarnish that One Ring to rule them all? The digging Mortensen’s been doing in the last two films has been under the auspices of acclaimed director David Cronenberg, the provocative filmmaker who’s examined the dark side of Mortensen’s characters in “A History of Violence” and “Eastern Promises,” which opens in wide release Friday.