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Lord of the Rings Films to Celebrate 25 Years With Elijah Wood at CCXP

Lord of the Rings Films to Celebrate 25 Years With Elijah Wood at CCXP

As time continues to pass, the Lord of the Rings film franchise is set to gather fans in honor of its 25th anniversary. Elijah Wood is the first announced guest for the forthcoming CCXP26 fan event that takes place later this year in São Paulo, Brazil. With the theme of “Fellowship Forever,” this year’s CCXP is held Dec. 3-6, and Wood is set to participate in a panel on both Dec. 3 and 4, along with photo and autograph sessions on each date. Wood was 20 when he hit the screen as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which was released in theaters Dec. 19, 2001, and also starred Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom. Based on the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien, the movie was the first in director Peter Jackson‘s trilogy that collectively surpassed $2.9 billion at the global box office and amassed 17 Oscars. “CCXP has a tradition of celebrating major milestones in pop culture alongside the people who experienced …

Boy’s adoption overturned in Court of Appeal after woman fails to disclose relationship with prisoner

Boy’s adoption overturned in Court of Appeal after woman fails to disclose relationship with prisoner

A two-year-old boy has had his adoption overturned at the Court of Appeal after his adoptive mother failed to disclose that she was in a relationship with a prisoner. In a ruling on Monday, Lord Justice Peter Jackson said the boy, known only as T, was placed for adoption with a married couple in Northumberland in May 2025 and was formally adopted last November. But T’s former social workers were informed earlier this year that the adoptive father had moved out of the family home last October, and that the adoptive mother had since started a relationship with a prisoner serving a sentence at the prison where she worked. They also learned that the woman was caring for the prisoner’s XL bully dog and had twice taken the child to visit the prisoner, who had referred to T as his “stepson” since October 2025. Lord Justice Peter Jackson said on Monday that the prisoner was in custody for drug offences at the time and had previous convictions for battery and possession of weapons, and had …

Baz Luhrmann Fetes the King

Baz Luhrmann Fetes the King

There’s a huge difference between memorializing a piece of pop culture and reanimating it. Dutch DJ-producer-musician Tom Holkenborg, who records as Junkie XL, achieved the latter in 2002, taking the semi-obscure 1968 Elvis Presley song “A Little Less Conversation” and remixing it for a Nike commercial. By adding an unrelenting backbeat, punching up the guitars and horns and funkifying the drums, the electronic overhaul transformed a throwaway tune recorded for a minor Presley movie into a 21st century global smash, catching fire in dance clubs and reaching No. 1 in over 20 countries. The track now lives on as a classic banger. Four years after his glittering bio-drama, Elvis, Baz Luhrmann pulls off something akin to Holkenborg’s magic act with EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. The Australian director doubles down on his worship of a subject whose flamboyant showmanship, soaring emotions, perpetual motion and ravenous taste for bling make them very much kindred spirits. It’s as if Luhrmann were conducting a séance, awakening Elvis from the afterlife with a raw vitality and outsize energy that …