Ian McKellen sent “Lord of the Rings” fans into a tizzy earlier this year when he teased that the upcoming movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” would actually be two films. Not so fast. Philippa Boyens, the screenwriter who worked on Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies, […]

Composer Howard Shore likes to sleep on it. “I try to get in touch with my inner feelings,” he said at the Zurich Film Festival, explaining his preferred method of working. “If you think about cinema, you go into a dark room and all this imagery starts appearing. You are in a dream-like state and I […]