
Lord of the Rings director has issued a statement in defense of Bilgin Ciftci, a Turkish doctor who lost his job and is facing prison time for having shared a meme on social media that compared President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Gollum, the bony, greedy hermit of the books and film series.
by Frances Martel4 Dec 2015, 7:34 AM PST0

A Turkish doctor, Bilgin Ciftci, is looking at two years in prison for daring to suggest that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks like Gollum, the ruined hobbit from The Lord of the Rings.
by John Hayward2 Dec 2015, 3:00 PM PST0

If you watch movies or television shows with any degree of regularity, there’s a good chance you’ve seen John Rhys-Davies’ work.
by Daniel Nussbaum15 Oct 2015, 6:35 AM PST0

Lord of the Rings actor John Rhys-Davies decried Islamic terrorism and political correctness in an interview with podcast king Adam Carolla Monday night.
by Daniel Nussbaum12 Aug 2015, 10:26 AM PST0

The irrepressible Sean Parker took to the Wall Street Journal editorial pages to announce that after building a $2.8 billion fortune, mostly from stealing music and selling peoples’ deepest secrets to marketers, he wants to reinvent his public reputation from that of a greedy loud-mouthed hacker to an old money philanthropist.
by Chriss W. Street27 Jun 2015, 3:05 PM PST0

In a wide-ranging interview with Moviefone published over the weekend, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson slammed the current state of Hollywood movies, saying they are too “franchise-driven” and that he’d like to make smaller films
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Dec 2014, 3:18 PM PST0