Looks like the film version of The Hobbit is going to happen after all. And it’s going to be a two-parter (because they sell more popcorn like that, see).
New Line and filmmaker Peter Jackson have resolved their differences over Jackson’s profit participation over the $3 billion-grossing “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, paving the way for […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ian McKellen'
Force of Hobbit
Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 18th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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A Message from Ian McKellen
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 1st, 2007 at 8:18 pm
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Roundup: Picketing Flamingo Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 23rd, 2007 at 5:17 am
“Iraq hasn’t even begun”: Writing in the LA Times, Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European studies at Oxford University, examines the long-term consequences of the debacle in Iraq, and concludes, “Looking back over a quarter of a century of chronicling current affairs, I cannot recall a more comprehensive and avoidable man-made disaster.”
Digby on the […]
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Ian McKellen Tackles King Lear
Posted by Ocelopotamus on March 21st, 2007 at 3:54 am
Ian McKellen, profiled in The Observer, is finally ready to take on the role of a lifetime: King Lear.
McKellen and Trevor Nunn, who have known each other since they were at Cambridge together in the 1960s, have been planning this production for a long time. ‘McKellen has said that for him, Trevor Nunn is the […]
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