Fan films are nothing new, but the proliferation of cheap, high quality production tools and the emergence of the Internet as a mass distribution platform has some rights holders waking up to the potential for fan art to keep a brand alive...

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Stephen Turner alerted us to a story about an impressive looking fan film "prequel" to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy that is being released this weekend.

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Two of the biggest Christian actors are slated to star in a film about two of the 20th century's most prominent Christian writers.

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Says Simon: "Our house is unusual but the aesthetic appeals to lots of people and perhaps touches something innate in us that evolved in forests."

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Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to collaborate with Guillermo Del Toro on the script of two films based around Tolkien's The Hobbit.

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The son of author JRR Tolkien is making a last-ditch attempt to stop Hollywood from filming two movies based on The Hobbit, it has been reported.

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GUILLERMO DEL TORO, director of the The Hobbit, has spoken to fans about the project, along with its executive producer Peter Jackson - just days before a court hearing could stop the movie being made. Del Toro and Jackson plan to make a film adaptation of JRR Tolkien's classic  …

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Guillermo del Toro has officially signed up to direct The Hobbit, according to reports leaking out from a film premiere in France.

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Los Angeles, CA (Tuesday, December 18, 2007) Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson; Harry Sloan, Chairman and CEO, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

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I can vouch for my stepbrother -- he's a big supporter of equal rights for the gay and lesbian community. But when the issue of gay marriage came up at work, he voted against it. Same-sex marriage for U.S.

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J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher spent more than 30 years piecing together fragments his father left behind. Now readers can learn what happened 6,000 years before Bilbo Baggins found the One Ring.

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On Feb. 12 Turbine officially lifted their non-disclosure on Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar. Early word is that the game is actually a potential contender against the juggernaut known as the World of Warcraft.

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On November 22, Ian McKellen put the Jackson/Walsh letter on his series, "E-Post: The Lord of the Rings" and added a comment: "The LOTR fans are already expressing a sense of betrayal.

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The kidnapped kid found after being held for 4 years by a pizza shop manager looks like Frodo from Lord of the Rings and the mom looks like a Goblin.

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How long does it take to drop a ring in a volcano? If you're Peter Jackson, self-appointed keeper of the JRR Tolkien flame and New Zealand's most ubiquitous export after lamb cutlets and rugby players, we're talking 11 hours.

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There's a few stories about how Peter Jackson won't be doing the films of The Hobbit. On theonering.net they have a letter from PJ saying some of the information around this. Moments ago we received this email from Peter Jackson and his crew down in New Zealand, take a look...

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Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his partner, Fran Walsh, won't be tackling a film version of J.R.R.

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Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the "Eye of Mordor" has been drawn to Iraq instead.

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An unfinished work by JRR Tolkien will be published next spring after being completed by the writer's son.

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Crtics were largely unimpressed after seeing the new Lord of The Rings musical which opened in Toronto on Friday. The production cost $25m and is four hours long.

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BFME 2 takes part in the North where a battle is raging between Sauron's forces vs. elves and dwarves. It will be possible to create/customize your own hero, apart from known figures such as Arwin, and become more powerful as you progress in the game.

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