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hanarobi for the virtual candy hearts and to my anonymous admirer (I've never had one before, not that I know of! *blush*) for the lovely black rose! AND to ismenin for the lovely e-card! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!! *huggles flist*
Slept better last night, though I did end up having a weird dream: Our permafrost specialist, M., one of our workshop guys, C., and I were in the future (in what turned out to be the year 4500), investigating what happens to Earth. There were discussions as to what would happen, and some people there were not convinced the predictions would come true although changes already had and were happening (Sound familiar?), so M. and C. secretly decided to send some messages back to our current time staff and have them initiate some things that would lead to events to speed up and the expected event to happen in 4500 already (if predictions were indeed true). Now for some reason I didn't know what the event was - but I knew it would be something big. So I asked M., "And how are you going to reverse this?" and she told me, "By not sending the messages." (I.e. making the message sending undone somehow. It made sense in the dream.) Then we hear people shouting outside, and we run out - we were in some sort of castle-like building built on a slope, and there was a terrace outside, and we ran up to the railing and there was a forest below, and people (refugees?) were camped there, and we could see them running around in the light of their fires, and heard shouting. There was a wind but it wasn't strong enough to explain the small branches of the deciduous trees around us falling down. We couldn't see or hear anything else really, but it seemed that whatever M. and C. had predicted was starting to happen. We went back towards our building when we saw two police or some other security force members come up the path, one male one female, fully armed and in padded gear. A woman who was also outside told them to go away, seeming scared, and that this was a private residential area, but the female policewoman told her to calm down - they seemed only to be looking around to see if everything was alright. M. and C. surreptitiously picked up some fallen branches with leaves on them, obviously to run tests on, and signalled me to come inside with them again.
And then I woke up, half an hour before the alarm. Weird dream. :)
Also, in Hobbit news: Apparently Premiere Magazine's March 2007 issue has an article that talks about "Peter Jackson vs. New Line", with some quotes by director James Cameron, who finds the whole situation and particularly New Line's stance "bizarre"! An excerpt is up on their website. If someone could provide scans of the full article (though I guess TORn might eventually get them anyway), I'd be very grateful, since I can't get it here!
Peter Jackson vs. New Line
The king of The Lord of the Rings is snarled in a Kong-sized lawsuit with Rings's studio. The Hobbit hangs in the balance. In this excerpt from March 2007's Notes From the Dream Factory, Tom Roston investigates.
by Tom Roston
New Line's option to make The Hobbit expires in 2009; maybe they don't think Peter Jackson can get the movie made in time. The company is also already turning its attention to another mega-budgeted fantasy franchise, the His Dark Materials trilogy. But the studio's motivations became more clear in January, when New Line co-CEO Robert Shaye couldn't refrain from a retort.
"I do not want to make a movie with somebody who is suing me. It will never happen during my watch," he said, and then referred to Jackson as "misinformed" and "myopic."
Whoa. Such a personal outburst (reminiscent of Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone's public berating of Tom Cruise is surprising, because when hundreds of millions of dollars of potential profit are left on the table over a tiff, you need to weigh the impact on your shareholders (New Line is owned by publicly traded Time Warner). And to think it began with the simple request for an audit.
"Bizarre." That's how director James Cameron refers to New Line's reluctance to submit to the audit (Cameron will be shooting his Avatar at Jackson's elaborate filmmaking facility, which Jackson paid for with his Rings money, in Wellington, New Zealand, this summer). Cameron adds that Fox, the company with which he's had a 20-year history, "has always been very transparent financially. It's almost automatic that you do an audit." Admitting that he's speaking out of turn, Cameron intimates that the easiest explanation for New Line's behavior is that it has something to hide. But when you factor in how much money could be made on The Hobbit and another prequel (there's a span of about 60 years between the book and Rings, which I'd imagine Jackson would have a field day fleshing out), we're talking about hundreds of millions of potential profit, if the previous films are any indication.
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To read the whole article, pick up the March 2007 issue of Premiere magazine, on sale now.
Aaaaaaaand, I am SO looking forward to seeing Oxford Murders - not only because of Elijah, but because quite a few people I know will be in it as extras - I've seen at least four so far that I recognized in the pics from Alex' blog! *bounce* Can't wait to hear the detailed reports, so I can at least live vicariously through you!
I'm sure there was more but alas, time to go to work... have a great day everyone!
hanarobi for the virtual candy hearts and to my anonymous admirer (I've never had one before, not that I know of! *blush*) for the lovely black rose! AND to ismenin for the lovely e-card! HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY EVERYONE!!! *huggles flist*Slept better last night, though I did end up having a weird dream: Our permafrost specialist, M., one of our workshop guys, C., and I were in the future (in what turned out to be the year 4500), investigating what happens to Earth. There were discussions as to what would happen, and some people there were not convinced the predictions would come true although changes already had and were happening (Sound familiar?), so M. and C. secretly decided to send some messages back to our current time staff and have them initiate some things that would lead to events to speed up and the expected event to happen in 4500 already (if predictions were indeed true). Now for some reason I didn't know what the event was - but I knew it would be something big. So I asked M., "And how are you going to reverse this?" and she told me, "By not sending the messages." (I.e. making the message sending undone somehow. It made sense in the dream.) Then we hear people shouting outside, and we run out - we were in some sort of castle-like building built on a slope, and there was a terrace outside, and we ran up to the railing and there was a forest below, and people (refugees?) were camped there, and we could see them running around in the light of their fires, and heard shouting. There was a wind but it wasn't strong enough to explain the small branches of the deciduous trees around us falling down. We couldn't see or hear anything else really, but it seemed that whatever M. and C. had predicted was starting to happen. We went back towards our building when we saw two police or some other security force members come up the path, one male one female, fully armed and in padded gear. A woman who was also outside told them to go away, seeming scared, and that this was a private residential area, but the female policewoman told her to calm down - they seemed only to be looking around to see if everything was alright. M. and C. surreptitiously picked up some fallen branches with leaves on them, obviously to run tests on, and signalled me to come inside with them again.
And then I woke up, half an hour before the alarm. Weird dream. :)
Also, in Hobbit news: Apparently Premiere Magazine's March 2007 issue has an article that talks about "Peter Jackson vs. New Line", with some quotes by director James Cameron, who finds the whole situation and particularly New Line's stance "bizarre"! An excerpt is up on their website. If someone could provide scans of the full article (though I guess TORn might eventually get them anyway), I'd be very grateful, since I can't get it here!
Peter Jackson vs. New Line
The king of The Lord of the Rings is snarled in a Kong-sized lawsuit with Rings's studio. The Hobbit hangs in the balance. In this excerpt from March 2007's Notes From the Dream Factory, Tom Roston investigates.
by Tom Roston
New Line's option to make The Hobbit expires in 2009; maybe they don't think Peter Jackson can get the movie made in time. The company is also already turning its attention to another mega-budgeted fantasy franchise, the His Dark Materials trilogy. But the studio's motivations became more clear in January, when New Line co-CEO Robert Shaye couldn't refrain from a retort.
"I do not want to make a movie with somebody who is suing me. It will never happen during my watch," he said, and then referred to Jackson as "misinformed" and "myopic."
Whoa. Such a personal outburst (reminiscent of Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone's public berating of Tom Cruise is surprising, because when hundreds of millions of dollars of potential profit are left on the table over a tiff, you need to weigh the impact on your shareholders (New Line is owned by publicly traded Time Warner). And to think it began with the simple request for an audit.
"Bizarre." That's how director James Cameron refers to New Line's reluctance to submit to the audit (Cameron will be shooting his Avatar at Jackson's elaborate filmmaking facility, which Jackson paid for with his Rings money, in Wellington, New Zealand, this summer). Cameron adds that Fox, the company with which he's had a 20-year history, "has always been very transparent financially. It's almost automatic that you do an audit." Admitting that he's speaking out of turn, Cameron intimates that the easiest explanation for New Line's behavior is that it has something to hide. But when you factor in how much money could be made on The Hobbit and another prequel (there's a span of about 60 years between the book and Rings, which I'd imagine Jackson would have a field day fleshing out), we're talking about hundreds of millions of potential profit, if the previous films are any indication.
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To read the whole article, pick up the March 2007 issue of Premiere magazine, on sale now.
Aaaaaaaand, I am SO looking forward to seeing Oxford Murders - not only because of Elijah, but because quite a few people I know will be in it as extras - I've seen at least four so far that I recognized in the pics from Alex' blog! *bounce* Can't wait to hear the detailed reports, so I can at least live vicariously through you!
I'm sure there was more but alas, time to go to work... have a great day everyone!
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