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Orlando Bloom eyes Lord of the Rings return

Orlando Bloom hopes to play Legolas in 'The Lord of the Rings' again - though thinks any project would lack "the magic" of the original trilogy.

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Sean Lennon says his parents John and Yoko were ‘the first power couple’

New documentary shows the couple during the Seventies as they worked on what would be John Lennon’s only full-length post-Beatles concert

The Independent UK

After a whopping 13 years in development, the Battle for Middle-earth's Extended Edition mod finally gives the beloved RTS the full Peter Jackson treatment

"Middle-earth Extended Edition returns".

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Elijah Wood says fees for Lord of the Rings actors were ‘not massive’

Star says cast took a ‘gamble’ appearing in Peter Jackson’s hit trilogy and did not earn enough to ‘rest easy’ for life

The Guardian - UK

Elijah Wood says he wasn’t paid enough to retire for life for his role in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy

Opening up about his salary for appearing in the smash trilogy, actor Elijah Wood says he wasn’t paid enough to retire for life for his role in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy.

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Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse?

Ono was blamed for splitting the Beatles and taking John Lennon from his true calling. Let’s hope things are getting easier for women who date famous musicians

The Guardian - UK

Ubisoft's surprisingly ambitious King Kong game faced a sudden change because Peter Jackson's son didn't like the ape's face: "I had to rework Kong’s head, alone in the studio"

The team had "less than two years to develop" the game

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“AI is not creating John's voice. John's voice existed on that cassette and we made the song around him”: Giles Martin explains why you’d be wrong to think ‘AI’ created Lennon's parts for The Beatles' Now and Then

Exclusive: Watch the track's co-producer demonstrate the machine learning technology behind the Fab Four's final single

MusicRadar

It looks like the new Lord of the Rings movie Hunt for Gollum has been delayed by a year

Sneaky little hobbitses...

Total Film

Ringo Starr sends ‘peace and love’ after Beatles’ Grammy win

The award came more than 60 years after the foursome, who formed in Liverpool in 1960, won the Grammy for best new artist.

Evening Standard

The Lord of the Rings anime movie sets streaming date, meaning every movie will be available in one place

This calls for a Lord of The Rings movie marathon

Total Film

It's a travesty that the Oscars has snubbed Denis Villeneuve twice in a row, but Dune 3 could be his Return of the King

Opinion | Denis Villeneuve has been snubbed twice in a row for Best Director, but Dune 3 could change things

Total Film

This ‘Strong Buy’-Rated Stock Is Up Nearly 3,000% in 10 Years. Analysts Say It Can Still Go Higher.

After delivering eye-popping returns over the past decade, analysts are projecting further gains for this ‘Strong Buy’-rated stock.

Barchart

Peter Jackson reveals his favorite movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and it's not the one you're probably expecting

"But if I see them again I might have a totally different one"

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"John was annoyed because I didn’t say that he had written one line of this song, Taxman… I also didn’t say how I wrote two lines to Come Together or three lines to Eleanor Rigby”: George Harrison and the questions around his Beatles credits

Best of 2024: "I think in the balance I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have with me"

Evening Standard

10 amazing shows to watch on Disney+ over Christmas: from The Bear to Shogun

Disney+ is about more than just Marvel shows

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr get back together for two songs at star-studded London concert

Beatles legend was joined by his former bandmate for a rousing encore of some classic hits

The Independent UK

Paul McCartney leaves Manchester spellbound as he rolls out the hits on first night of UK tour

At the first of two sold-out shows – part of his celebrated Got Back tour and his first UK gig since 2018 – The Beatles legend ‘duetted’ with his late bandmate, John Lennon, and gave fans an early Christmas present

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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim will delight fans of Peter Jackson’s trilogy – but offers no fresh twist

In a 1951 letter to the publisher Milton Waldman, J.R.R. Tolkien described his youthful ambition to create a cycle of connected legends, some of which would be tales told in full and others that would exist merely as scraps and fragments.

Total Film

If you squint, those Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim cameos work surprisingly well in Tolkien lore

What's going on with those Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim cameos? All your questions answered

Total Film

Lord of the Rings anime movie star Brian Cox feels that he has "somehow been avoiding" Tolkien until now, despite being "up for" a role in the live-action films

Exclusive: The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim star Brian Cox would be up for returning to Middle-earth in a live-action role

Digital Camera World

I think restoring this iconic photo with AI is heresy and sets a dangerous precedent

This video of Topaz Labs’ AI upscaling the legendary ‘Lunch Atop a Skyscraper’ photograph just doesn’t sit right with me, here’s why…

The Guardian - US

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – redundant, flavourless animation

The plundering of JRR Tolkien’s source material continues with this plodding adventure turning a footnote into a film

Inverse

The New Standalone Lord of the Rings Movie Reveals Exactly What the Franchise Needed

Don't worry too much about the lore or the timeline, 'The War of the Rohirrim' is a great standalone 'Lord of the Rings' movie.

The Independent UK

The animated Lord of the Rings is a rushed money-grab

2/5 Every possible franchise callback seems jammed into this anime film, which was fast-tracked into production to prevent studio New Line Cinema from losing the rights to JRR Tolkien’s work

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