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Mr Beaks whispers with Fran Walsh & The Queen of the Geeks re: RETURN OF THE KING!

Hey folks, Harry here... working on my review of RETURN OF THE KING, seen it twice now... gets even greater upon second viewing... Tuesday, I finally get to see THE LORD OF THE RINGS... so giddy. Here ya go... Not two hours after stepping of | »

AICN Downunder: Kapow; ROTK; TheItalianJob; Cypher; Rage in Placid Lake; AmericanPie2; Newsfront; and a Gigli warning.

Father Geek here, still haven't managed to delete ALL that bothersome WORM Spam from my PC (its enough to make me want to convert to a MAC, but then the mailed spam buried Harry's brand new state-of-the-art Mac as well) that built up during the long | »

Harry has watched the FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING dvd + TWO TOWERS Info from all over!

Hey folks, Harry here... Early this morning the Fed Ex man arrived with no idea of the treasure he carried. If he had, he might have most certainly taken my precioussss... It is too bad that Middle Earth didn't have a Fed Ex man. They could've | »

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS Special Preview Trailer

WARNING DUE TO GANDALF'S ABILITY TO BURN IMAGES INTO MY MIND, THERE WILL BE AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF SPOILERS HERE! READ ONLY IF YOU HAVE DOUBTS ABOUT RE-WATCHING LORD OF THE RINGS THIS FRIDAY. BTW, YOU WILL BE REWATCHING LORD OF THE RINGS THIS FRIDAY, | »

AICN Downunder: FarSideOfTheWorld; Caught InTheNet; BlackAndWhite; RabbitProofFence; Lost In Oz; Don'tPeek; GarageDays

Father Geek reporting in during a short break in the action at the SXSW Film & Music Festival with the latest from our gal in the know way downunder, Tamsin and the 24th offical... AICN DOWNUNDER REPORT By Tamsin... AWARDS: . Ian McK | »

AICN Downunder: Up For Grabs; HILDEGARD; Timeline; CUNNAMULLA; Facing The Music; MOULIN ROUGE

Father Geek here with Tamsin and this mid-workweek report from Australia, etc... Its a little lite this week, of course the big OZ stories are the return of LOTR: FOTR to the USA top 10 boxoffice charts where it belongs, and naturally the great recep | »

Euro-AICN: PanicRoom; Dust; OdeToThePoet; Invincible; SpyGame; 24 HourPartyPeople; TheBerlinWinners; TheBelgradeFest

Father Geek here with our regular Monday report, Euro-AICN, sent in to Geek Headquarter in Austin, Texas from our Euro-editor Robert Bernocchi in Rome, with help from Ethan in Eastern Europe, Ratbert in England, an Evil Spy somewhere in the Middle Ea | »

AICN Downunder Report: LongGreenShore; TheGreatRaid; Blurred; Razor; Lantana; WalkingOnWater; BeneathClouds; LOTR

Ol' Father Geek back again this time with Tamsin and her 18th AICN Downunder Report, but first this little bit that arrived on Father Geek's brand new birthday widescreen flat monitor this morning... Kraven here. The Screen Actors Guild have rele | »

Euro-AICN Special Report; The BAFTA Nominees; UPDATED

Father Geek here with this year's BAFTA nominees. These, the British Oscars, are probably the second most important English language awards to be given out and this year they, the winners, will be announced BEFORE the ACADEMY AWARDS on February 24, 2 | »

The Chicago Film Critic's Awards nominations are made...

Father Geek here with an awards nominations posting for those of you that keep up with such things. Its that time of year, sooooo get out your score cards and be prepared to be seeing these reports often in the next few weeks, followed of course by t | »

Latin-AICN: Coffin Joe Jr's Best Lists, plus Jason X, LOTR, and other coolness

Hola, CineLocos, Que tal' Father Geek here with ol' Coffin Joe Jr and his list of 2001 Best of Lists. Remember now he lives in Sao Paulo, Brasil and hasn't seen or heard everything you have yet, annnnnnd there's some stuff he's viewed that you still | »

EuroAICN Christmas Eve Edition: Fellowship of the Ring; Sorcerer'sApprentice; Dazzle; Richie's Jihad; ChasingTheDragon

Father Geek here, Wishing you all a very merry holiday season on a very chilly Christmas Eve here at Austin's Geek Headquarters nessled in the heart of the Central Texas Hill Country. I've got Robert Bernocchi's latest Euro column for you, and we'll | »

Elston Gunn's WEEKLY RECAP

Ol' Father Geek here with a new Weekly Recap from our man in the know Elston Gunn. Soooooooo grab your giant AICN mug, fill it with your fave hot java drink, bite into a nice warm pastry of choice, and sit back and relax with Elston's review of all t | »

AfricaAICN: 8 Mile; Ali; PatientAbuse; Idols; Amandla; Mr Bones; FlyingOverPurgatory; Calabash African Film Festival

Its time for ol' Father Geek to shake off the wistful wonderment that has gripped him since seeing his second screening of the simply phantastical motion picture epic that is Peter Jackson's FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, and get on with my real life du | »

Asia-AICN: Alive; Princess Shurayaki; Avenging Fist: Style; Perfect Match; Sandhya; Love and Heart

Father Geek reporting in with this week's edition of Asia-AICN. I'll cut short my intro because I'm taking off to see FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING at a local press screening. It will be my second veiwing of this outstanding motion picture epic, Click here | »

Having nightmares that Peter Jackson has gone crazy trying to shoot all 3 films together' He speaks!

Just added this video clip from the press conference!!! Thanks goes out to TheOneRing.Net for the heads up! Hey folks, Harry here.... Ya know.... It has been over a year of shooting on LORD OF THE RINGS.... Peter has been working on these fi | »

Weta Magic and how it brings LORD OF THE RINGS to life piece by piece

Hey folks, Harry here with a heads up from Mr Fusion! Now I've been out of the 'loop' for about a month now, so I might have missed where this may have appeared, but Mr Fusion here is who brought it to my attention. The link will take you to a plac | »

A long time Downunder spy surfaces at LOTR casting call

Ned Kelly our long time plant south of the "E" line has sent Father Geek the following report from an extras casting call on Lord Of The Rings in New Zealand. Old Ned hopped a train and headed to Wellington to get this story in spite of the bounty on | »

Casting Call in New Zealand for LORD OF THE RINGS!!!

Maaaaaaaaan, don't ya wish you lived in New Zealand. Can you imagine how uber friggin cool it'd be to be IMPALED GOBLIN #3 in this flick, or ROHAN WARRIOR #15000. Wouldn't it be cool if every extra in the film made it into the credits..... I don't | »

Casting information and shooting information for THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Yesterday, Casting folks 'round the globe received a fax about the casting for LORD OF THE RINGS. I haven't seen this document, but below is some information that a source claims came from this 6 page document. "Hididdlyho Harrarino! Well | »

The NZ Army and THE LORD OF THE RINGS

Harry here with this latest bit from a NZ newspaper about the participation of the New Zealand army. So for some of you wanting to be an extra in this movie. Perhaps flying to New Zealand and joining their army would be a start. (Giggle) I'm... um | »

The Results of the 2nd Q & A With LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy director.. Peter Jackson

Hey folks, this here is going to be the 'entrance' page for the Peter Jackson Question and Answer page. The reason for this is so the TALK BACK doesn't cloud the page that the report is on, since that page is already going to be 54+ K of text... wel | »

The 2nd Q & A With Peter Jackson about THE LORD OF THE RINGS!!! Send your Questions Now!!!!!

DO NOT SEND ANY MORE QUESTIONS!!!! I've already got the 20 questions I'm sending to Peter Jackson. Go ahead and hold on to what you have on your mind. I had over 1300 questions in about 7 hours, and I've been reading and editing them non-stop. Pl | »

Interesting Article About The LORD OF THE RINGS Project, and how New Zealand Communities Are Reacting

Harry here with an article that appeared in a local New Zealand newspaper that seems to be about one communities attempt (shared by communities all around New Zealand) to snag locations in Peter Jackson's films. After all, wouldn't you want to go vi | »

ATTENTION NEW ZEALAND SPIES!!!! EMERGENCY!!! LORD OF THE RINGS MISSION!!!

The evil Peter Jackson has taunted me with the fact that there is a magazine on shelves in New Zealand with amazing coolness on the cover, and that we geeks haven't gotten it yet. So we must get it within the next 12 hours. Someone... Anyone.... In | »