November 9, 2006

HOLIDAY SALE – SAVE $$$ ON DORK DVDs!

OK, sorry this wasn't up and ready in time for the last newsletter, but we have a special limited time Holiday Sale on our DVDs. Get $5 off our 2-disc DVD THE DORK OF THE RINGS, no limits! Sale ends December 1 so we can get your orders out in time for Christmas. Buy your dorky presents now at our store.

ANOTHER DISTRIBUTOR

Well, we just landed another new non-exclusive distributor called Midwest Tapes who provide DVDs to 10,000 libraries nationwide. Special thanks to our producer Kevin McInerney for all the work he put into landing us this deal.

GENCON SOCAL SCREENINGS & LUKE SKI

In our last newsletter we forgot to mention our two screenings in California:

NOV. 16 at 7:30 PM and Nov. 18 at noon at GenCol SoCal in Anaheim, CA.

Both screenings will be held in the Marriott Anaheim hotel, in Salon 1. Website: www.gencon.com

The Great Luke Ski will be at the convention selling out DVDs at his booth and introducing the film. If you're attending the event, be sure to check out his performances there. Luke writes:

"Not only am I returning to be the half-time act of the Masquerade on Saturday at 6:30 pm, but I will also be performing at and hosting the Friday Night Live: Comedy Music Showcase" at 8:00 pm in Marriott:
Salon F, featuring Carrie Dahlby, and fellow performers from "The Dr. Demento Show", THROWING TOASTERS, HOT WAFFLES, & RAYMOND & SCUM!!!"

November 2, 2006

NOVEMBER SCREENINGS/APPEARANCES

You can always see our most up-to-date screenings and appearances listed at www.myspace.com/dorkoftherings (sometimes the official website takes a few extra days to catch up)

NOV. 4 from 2 PM – 9 PM: We'll be selling specially priced DVDs at our own table at Borders on Grape Road in Mishawaka, IN during a gamers event.

NOV. 11 at 11 PM: Screening at Ring*Con at the Esperanto Hotel in the main ballroom in Fulda, Germany. Guests include Miranda Otto and Sean Astin. Website: www.ringcon.de

NOV. 28 at 8 PM
Screening and Q&A at the Vickers Theatre at:
6 N. Elm St Three Oaks , MI 49128.

Cost: $5.00

Vickers is "...the hippest spot in town!" - Harlene Ellen, CHICAG0 TRIBUNE.

Website: www.vickerstheatre.com

DORK GETS DISTRIBUTION

We recently signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with Alliance Game Distributors (who also sell movies by our good friends The Dead Gentlemen www.deadgentlemen.com) and now we will be listed as a new release in February 07 in Game Trade Magazine which can get the movie into potentially 2,000 game and hobby stores nationwide. Our invasion of the world continues!

DORK AT MARSCON, WILLYCON, INCONJUCTION & DECONPRESSION

DeCONpression 2007 - January 12-14, 2007 - www.deconpression.org

MARSCON 2007 - March 2-4, 2007 - www.marscon.org

WILLYCON 2007 - April 13-15, 2007 - www.willycon.com

INCONJUNCTION 2007 - July 2007 - www.inconjunction.org

DORKS AT BORDERS LAST WEEKEND

Thanks to everyone who came to support our booth and a special thanks to Steve the manager for the free grub and for putting up with Jack Peterson. You can see the video from our adventure there and a sneak peek at our next film project.

DORK ONLINE REVIEW

Rogue Cinema just did a review of THE DORK OF THE RINGS for their November issue of their website. Rogue Cinema covers the independent/cult/low budget film scene with articles, reviews, interviews and more. I think it was an honest review and he had a lot of fun watching it and was very impressed with its scope.

IUSB PREMIERE & SCREENINGS

Our screenings went awesome. Thanks to everyone who came out. We have a lot of photos and videos to put on the website from all our events so keep checking back for possible updates. You can read Jack's blog right now to hear a bit about the IUSB shows and see a few pics.

September 20 , 2006

RING*CON 2006 IN GERMANY

THE DORK OF THE RINGS will be having its European premiere at Ring*Con at the Esperanto Hotel in Fulda, Germany on November 10 – 12, 2006.
Special guests include Miranda Otto and Sean Astin.

The movie will screen on that Saturday at 11:00 p.m. in the main ballroom (space for 5,000 people) during party time. Woo hoo!

Visit their website at www.ringcon.de for more information.

DORK ON TV & IN NEWSPAPERS

If you live in the South Bend, IN area then watch Fox 28 Wake Up this Friday between 8 - 9 a.m. to see an interview with Jack Peterson and Producer Michael Kouroubetes. There will also be a review and story about the movie in The South Bend Tribune's Weekend section on Friday as well. Other known papers covering us include The LaPorte Herald Argus, The Edwardsburg Argus, The Granger Gazette and the Plymouth Pilot which should also have stories this week or before the second weekend of screenings. We'll also update our news and reviews sections of our website.

LOCAL IUSB PREMIERE AND SCREENINGS

Below are the public screening dates in Wiekamp Hall, Room 1001 at Indiana University South Bend:

Saturday, September 23 – 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 24 – 2:00 p.m.
Friday, October 6 – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 7 - 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m Sunday, October 8 – 2:00 p.m.

We are sponsored by the IUSB Alumni Association. General Admission is $5.00. DVDS and posters will be for sale, with special discounts for audience members and cast & crew.

DRAGON*CON 2006 REPORT

Our 1 a.m. screening of the movie was packed on Saturday night at Dragon*Con, the country's largest Sci-fi/horror/fantasy/popculture/whatever convention in the country.
We were part of two event tracks there: the independent film track and the Tolkien track (for which we were special guests).

Randolf the Wizard worked the lobbies all weekend and had a clicker he used to keep track of how many times his picture was taken which turned out to be over 1,400! He also did a number of interviews for TV, radio, print and a Dragon*Con documentary.

Our two Making of Muddle-earth panels went great and we got to do a panel with actor Kiran Shah Monday morning talking about our experiences making films. Kiran and his nephew Kit were a pleasure to hang out with and it looks like Kiran may be interested in our next project, which just might involve a boy wizard and a dopey magic school or something. You may remember that Kiran was in LORD OF THE RINGS as the stunt/scale double for the hobbits and played the sleigh driver for the White Queen in CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. He also introduces our movie on the Dork DVD.

Naturally, Jack Peterson was there and he wedged his way into the above-mentioned panel and sat right next to Kiran, even offering his bathtub for Kiran to stay in next time he visits New Zealand. Jack shmoozed with other celebs including legendary filmmaker George Lucas (played by George Starkey), David Prowse (the real Darth Vader!), Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer of The Venture Bros. (Jack pissed off Doc, no surprise), and the wacky guys behind the online hit Red. Vs.
Blue.

Thanks again to Ashlee and Rachel Scott for filming some stuff for us (and we filmed for them too!) and The Great Luke Ski and Terrestrial Media for selling our DVDs at their booths.

Be sure to check out the Dragon*Con video!

BIG DORKS AT IMAX

Our IMAX screening went very well and we sold some DVDs, which is always nice. We also got a cut from ticket sales, which turned out to be pretty damn good! Once again, Jack hogged most of the spotlight and we'll have his video report on the website this fall.

PLAY "WHACK-A-DORK!"

Our webmaster obviously has some kind of free time on his hands (though he claims it was a class assignment) and created a cool Dork game you can play right on our website so check it out!

DORK ON MYSPACE AND NEW DORK TRAILERS

Visit our new site on MySpace. It has screenings listed on it and right now it's the only place you can watch our two new trailers edited by fellow filmmaker Brett Fountain. So join our friends list today! You can also join Jack Peterson's friends list.

OWN THE MOVIE YET?

So what are ya waiting for? Buy the 2-disc DVD set!

SPECIAL THANKS TO RANDOLF THE WIZARD

We definitely appreciate the support and sacrifices of everyone on our Dork team, but I wanted to take a moment to especially thank our devoted wizard, Dave Kiefer. Of our 15 event appearances over the last several years, Dave has attended 11 of them. He's gone out of the state with us as well to Seattle, Pasadena and Atlanta. He's never out of costume and always happy to greet folks and smile at the children.

While he may seem old enough to be retired with time on his hands, he's not retired at all and isn't actually that old either, and in fact works full time. He's willingly taken off time from work and journeyed with us mostly at his own expense. His appearances at conventions has been invaluable to the promotion of the movie and he's single-handedly responsible for handing out over several thousand Dork business cards.

Dave, on behalf of myself and every dork in this production, we thank you for your dedicated service. You're a pleasure to have around and we truly appreciate all that you do. Thanks for all your "magic."

August 22, 2006

DRAGON*CON SCREENING AND SEMINARS

Four of us will be attending Dragon*Con (www.dragoncon.org) over Labor Day weekend for our southern fried premiere at Dragon*Con. Me, Ian (Art Coordinator), David (Randolf) and Michael (writer/producer).

The fan films and parody block of the film festival starts Saturday night at 11:30 p.m. so DOTR should screen at around 1:00 a.m. I'm told this is still a decent time for a con that never sleeps. .It takes place in the Hyatt - Learning Center (that's the Film Festival room). Our film description is on the features page of the web site here.

Our times for "Making of Muddle-earth" are Saturday at 4:00 p.m. & Monday at 1:00 p.m. They've also invited us to do an additional seminar with Kiran Shah at 12:00 p.m. on Monday.

GENCON 2006 REPORT EXCERPT

This was it. All the sweat, toil, and (minimal) bloodshed over the last several years came to fruition as Richardson Productions held its world premiere and multiple screenings of the epic parody "The Dork of the Rings" at GenCon '06, the country's largest gaming convention with fantasy and sci-fi geeks from around the world in attendance.

Thursday's sneak preview was jam-packed with squished standing room only. A very enthusiastic film reviewer from Silven was present, as well as a representative of the Indiana State Museum who wants the film to be screened at the museum. Both the Friday premiere and Saturday screening were completely filled, so that meant about 200 eager dorks per screening. After the premiere the cast and crew answered lots of questions and signed autographs for all their adoring dorker fans.

Somehow (no one is claiming responsibility), our infamous co-director Jack Peterson made the scene at the end of the premiere and amazed the crowd with his total lack of knowledge about basically everything.

For the full report click here.

BIG DORKS AT IMAX – COME SUPPORT US!

THE DORK OF THE RINGS will be super-sized on Saturday, August 26 at 8:30 at the IMAX in Indianapolis. Cast and crew will be on hand for a Q&A after the screening and DVDs, t-shirts and posters will be for sale in the lobby. Visit the websitefor directions. Tickets are $12. Last time we looked the info about our screening wasn't up on their website but hopefully it will be soon.

LOCAL IUSB PREMIERE AND SCREENINGS

The public Indiana University South Bend screening dates are:

Saturday, September 23 – 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Sunday, September 24 – 2:00 p.m.
Friday, October 6 – 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 7 - 4:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m Sunday, October 8 – 2:00 p.m.

We are sponsored by the IUSB Alumni Association. General Admission is $5.00 and a portion will go to IUSB alumni scholarships. DVDS and posters will be for sale, with special discounts for audience members and cast & crew.

**CAST & CREW: Please mark your calendars for 8:00 p.m. on Friday, September 22. That will be our cast & crew only premiere at Indiana University South Bend. Due to limited space and the amount of people involved, everyone must e-mail me at reserve@rpstudios.net to reserve one spot for just yourself. This will be on a first come, first served basis. ALL cast & crew members get free admittance to all of the IUSB screenings listed above. Your name must be on my master cast & crew list in order to make reservations and get in.

FRUDO'S MUSIC VIDEO ONLINE

Watch Frudo's catchy new music video here.

This video appears along with The Great Luke Ski's music video on the DORK OF THE RINGS bonus DVD. Our lead actor Bryce Cone, wrote, performed and edited this video himself.

July 1, 2006

WORLD PREMIERE, SCREENINGS AND SEMINARS AT GENCON IN INDIANAPOLIS

Join us at GenCon August 10-13 in Indianapolis for our World Premiere at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, August 11. Our total Dork schedule for that weekend is as follows for screenings and presentations:

Thursday 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM:
Sneak Preview: "The Dork of the Rings" screening

Friday 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM:
Creating 3-D Computer Effects For Movies

Friday 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM:
"The Dork of the Rings" world premiere screening with cast & crew in attendance for introduction and Q&A

Saturday 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM:
The Making of Muddle-earth: Behind the scenes of "The Dork of the Rings"

Saturday 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM:
"The Dork of the Rings" screening

Sunday 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM:
"The Dork of the Rings" screening

Anyone who wishes to attend will either need to buy daily or weekend passes at the event or at the GenCon website at www.gencon.com

We will have a booth there all weekend selling our DVDs and other merchandise.

DRAGON*CON SCREENING AT SEMINARS

We just found out our film was accepted to screen at Dragon*Con in Atlanta over Labor Day weekend. This is the larget Sci-fi/fantasy/horror convention in the country. Our trailer screened there last year as you may remember. Several of us will be journeying down there for the screening and to take part as panelists for the independent filmmaker track and also run two seminars of our own about making DORK OF THE RINGS through the Tolkien track. Their website is www.dragoncon.org and we'll share more details as they become available.

LOCAL IUSB PREMIERE AND SCREENINGS

Please mark your calendars for the evening of Friday, September 22. That will be our cast & crew only premiere at Indiana University South Bend (time TBA). Due to space and the amount of people involved, I have not determined how many guests can attend the IUSB premiere and I may have to do two screenings that night. However, any cast and crew (any name that appears in our credits list) can attend any of our IUSB screenings for free. The public IUSB screening dates are:

Saturday, September 23 (afternoon & evening)
Sunday, September 24 (afternoon)
Friday, October 6 (evening)
Saturday, October 7 (afternoon & evening)
Sunday, October 8 (afternoon)

Hope to see everyone there!

THE GREAT LUKE SKI RECORDS "DORK" THEME SONG

Comedy phenomenon The Great Luke Ski has recorded "The Theme Song From The Dork of the Rings." Luke has been the #1 requested artist for the past 6 years on the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show. We shot a music video for the theme song and some of our Dork cast and crew helped shoot Luke's "Stealin' Like A Hobbit" video. The video will appear on his DVD to be released at GenCon this year. We'll be doing a lot of cross-promoting with Luke and we're thrilled to have him on board. You can check out his comedy movie website at www.lukeski.com.

HOLLYWOOD ACTOR JUSTIN LONG JOINS "DORKERS"

Co-director Jack Peterson caught up with dorky actor Justin Long (GALAXY QUEST, JEEPERS CREEPERS) at the Waterfront Film Festival. He interviewed Justin who was instantly enamored with his fuzzy beard…and rightly so. Justin pimped the film and will appear in our DORKERS dorkumentary which screens at The Gathering of the Fellowship and Elf 2 this summer and will be on the final DORK movie DVD.

April 30 , 2006

'DORK' WORLD PREMIERE THIS AUGUST

Details are still being worked out, but as it looks right now we will be having the World Premiere of THE DORK OF THE RINGS at GenCon in Indianapolis at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, August 11. GenCon runs from August 10-13 and we'll have additional screenings, seminars and appearance throughout the event. Their website is www.gencon.com and please continue to visit our website www.dorkoftherings.com for updates. We'll let everyone know if the premiere time changes for any reason via our website and newsletters.

LOTR ACTOR KIRAN SHAH VIDEO ARRIVES

We now have the footage of LORD OF THE RINGS actor/scale double Kiran Shah, filmed by his nephew Kit. Kiran was gracious enough to do a funny introduction for us to precede the film and he also did some amusing bits for our DORKERS documentary. A very special thanks to Kit and Kiran for being a part of our exciting project. Kiran will be appearing next at The Gathering of the Fellowship in Toronto this July and Dragon*Con in Atlanta in September.

DORK FAN FILM WINNER!

We are proud to announce that the fan film by Mars Productions is the winner of our Dork Fan Film Contest. The young creators of this remarkable film, Ashlee Scott (17) and Rachel Scott (15) have won copies of DORKS GONE WILD! and THE DORK OF THE RINGS. They also get a cameo in THE DORK OF THE RINGS and they'll appear in DORKERS with excerpts of their fan film. You can view their 12 minute fan film and behind-the-scenes featurette on our website.

New month we will feature another amazing fan film called THE DORK OF THE PEEPS. It is an amazing story of friendship, honor and marshmallows directed by Jack Peeperson.

'DORKERS' IN TORONTO & NEW YORK

Check out our next two big previews at these conventions:

GATHERING OF THE FELLOWSHIP – July 1- 4, 2006 in Toronto

ELF 2 in New York

We'll be having the Canadian and East Coast premieres of our dorkumunetary DORKERS at these huge events!

DORKERS SUPPORT DORK!

We thank each and every one of you reading this for following our project and supporting our efforts. We are now in the final push for the film's release this August and could definitely use a financial boost to help us with GenCon and distributing expenses. So if you haven't bought a Dork t-shirt or ordered a copy of DORKS GONE WILD! We hope that'll you'll consider doing so now. The shirts are a limited time design and about half of the content on DORKS GONE WILD! will not be included on the final DORK OF THE RINGS DVD. You can purchase them by credit card, money order or check at The Dork Store.

April 30 , 2006

KIRAN SHAH FILMING

LORD OF THE RINGS actor/scale double Kiran Shah is being taped in England this week for interview bits to go in our DORKERS documentary.

He is also doing an introduction that will appear before the DORK OF THE RINGS feature. We are very honored and excited to have him on board as a loyal Dorker.

DORKS AT BUY ME TOYS STORE

We got some great filming done for DORKERS at the local collectible and comic book store Buy Me Toys, despite the thin crowd. Must've been the big shoe sale next door. A special thanks to the cast and crew who showed up to help out: Bryce (Frudo), David (Randolf), Jason (artist), Andy (costumer), Trish (production princess), Michael (writer/producer), Jim (cinematographer) and Ian (art coordinator).

FAN FILM COMPETITION UPDATE

So far there are six filmmakers (that we know up) creating fan films for our DORK FAN FILM CONTEST and it's not too late to enter with the deadline being May 25. We don't want to show any favoritism, but Mars Productions shared with us some still from their fan film shoot that you can check out on their website at www.marsproductions.net. They are displayed on the last few pages of their photo gallery.

Good luck to all our creative fan filmmakers! Also, please check out the updates regarding the fan film rules.

Basically, we stated that no copyrighted video, audio or music can be used in the fan films. However, you are welcome to use anything found on our website (including video, etc).

POST-PRODUCTION UPDATE

Well, we have three months to finish this bad boy up before August 1 so it will be ready for GenCon. We are giving another call out here for anyone that wants to help with the film in some way. Below are the positions needed and brief descriptions. We will reply with more detailed info to anyone who contacts us at dork@rpstudios.net.

GRAPHICS ARTISTS/ILLUSTRATORS
We need artists to create original poster art, create graphics and images for within the film and for our DORKERS documentary, and other publicity materials.

3-D VIDEO EFFECTS ARTISTS
We still need to add some special effects to the film. These can be created in programs such as 3-D Studio Max, Video Vegas, Premiere, Adobe After Effects, etc.

MARKETING
We need people to help promote the film online through websites and user groups. We also need people who can help promote the film at conventions around the country (since we can't attend them all ourselves).

All position are non-paid, but will receive screen and/or website credit and special offers depending on the amount of work provided.

March 31, 2006

SCREENING AT SOUTH BEND LIBRARY

Our previews and Q&A went very well a few weekends ago. We had a very enthusiastic crowd and we got a lot of footage for DORKERS afterwards and sold some of our dorky wares as well. Jack Peterson crashed the event as usual and you can read all about it in his blog at http://jackblog.grandpotato.com/ accompanied by a few snapshots from the event.

'DORKER' PREVIEW AT IU SOUTH BEND FILM FEST

The 4-minute preview of our documentary Dorkers will premiere at The 5th Annual IU South Bend Independent Video & Filmmakers Festival on March 31 and April 1. The website is www.ivff.net We will also have a booth whoring our usual merchandise at bargain prices: Dorks Gone Wild! DVDs for $5, posters for $5 and t-shirts for $15.

NEW VIDEO ONLINE

See the DORKERS documentary preview online now and you might even see yourself in it! Go here to take a look!

DORKS AT BUY ME TOYS STORE

Our next appearance will be at Buy Me Toys at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, April 8. We'll be screening some clips like at the library, doing a cast & crew Q&A and doing more filming for Dorkers. Cast and crew should arrive by 6:15 PM. The website for the store is www.buymetoys.com.

Buy Me Toys.com is located in University Commons, in South Bend, Indiana. Buy Me Toys.Com is the largest Comic Retailer in the Northern Indiana/Southern Michigan Area!

Open 7 Days a Week: Wed - Sat: 11am-8pm, Sun, Mon, Tues: 12-6pm

6327A University Commons
South Bend, IN 46635
Phone: 574-271-TOYS

WIN A "DORKS GONE WILD!" DVD BY PROMOTING THE MOVIE

OK, fans, our last cry for help, er, I mean, REQUEST for increasing our mailing list resulted in ZERO new additions. Well, it's our fault really. We needed to offer you all some cheap prize in exchange for gathering new Dorkers. So here's the deal…

We will give away 10 free Dorks Gone Wild! DVDs to the top ten of you on our current mailing list who get us the most new sign-ups. Here's how it works: Simply have your friends send us an e-mail at dorkcontest@rpstudios.net with their e-mail address, as well as your e-mail address (make sure it's the same one we have on our e-list) so we know you referred them. It's that easy and you have from now until April 25th to do it so we can announce the winners in our next newsletter.

On your mark….get set…GO!

DORK FAN FILM CONTEST

Alright, all you Dorker filmmakers out there, we are proud (if not
self-indulgent) to announce the DORK FAN FILM CONTEST. Pull out your cameras and shoot your own movie using characters, themes, whatever from THE DORK OF THE RINGS. Explore our website, watch our videos and read the forum to get your inspiration. The entry form is posted on the website here and it's free to enter. Here are just a few guidelines:

• The film should not exceed 10 minutes.
• The finished film can be submitted on DVD, Mini DV or VHS (first 2 formats preferred)
• Deadline for submissions is May 25, 2006

The films will be judged by director extraordinaire Jack Peterson who will evaluate them based on creativity and cash bribes. The top three films will be showcased on our website and the filmmakers will win copies of DORKS GONE WILD! and THE DORK OF THE RINGS once it comes out. Winning films and/or filmmakers may appear in some fashion in our documentary DORKERS.

Send your completed entries to:

DORK FAN FILM CONTEST
26065 Kirkland Dr.
Edwardsburg, MI 49112

Contact us at dorkcontest@rpstudios.net with any questions. May the best dork win!

February 27, 2006

CONVENTION PREVIEWS THIS SPRING & SUMMER

Here are some upcoming conventions that will be screening our trailer and/or other sneak preview footage from the film:

MARSCON - March 3-5, 2006

WILLYCON - March 31-April 2, 2006

CONCINITTY April 1-2, 2006

MOBICON - May 19-21

GATHERING OF THE FELLOWSHIP – July 1- 4, 2006

February 27, 2006

"LORD OF THE RINGS" ACTOR GOES DORK!

Kiran Shah, who was a hobbit scale/stunt double for the famed trilogy, has agreed to be appear in our documentary DORKERS, hosted by RINGERS star Cliff Broadway. You will remember Kiran most recently as Ginarrbrik, the spunky sleigh driver in THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA. His other films include THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINATY GENTLEMEN, THE DARK CRYSTAL INDIANA JONES LEGEND and many others. You can visit his website at http://www.littlekiran.com. Welcome aboard, Kiran!

February 27, 2006

SCREENING PLUS Q&A AT SOUTH BEND LIBRARY

We will be screening more previews and doing a Q&A for the South Bend library Saturday, March 11 at 2:30 p.m. Cast and crew, mark your calendars and show up to participate in this cool event! For more information visit the library site.

February 27, 2006

‘DORK’ WORLD PREMIERE AT GEN CON 2006

It is official, my dear Dorkers. The world premiere of THE DORK OF THE RINGS will take place during GenCon in Indianapolis August 10-13. The exact date and time has not been set yet, but they are extremely excited to have us screen it there, as well as us doing 2 or 3 panels about making the movie. We have reserved a booth and will be selling the movie and other Dork merchandise during the four day convention. We will keep everyone updated regarding a local South Bend area premiere, which will likely be after GenCon, as well as other conventions and film festivals it will be screening at worldwide.

February 27, 2006

DIRECTOR INTERVIEW

I was interviewed once again for Gary Joy's online radio program called The Casting Couch Online Radio Show. Click on the star marked "Listen" and you can download my 30-minute interview to hear it in all its glory. There is also, quite naturally, an interruption made by Jack Peterson.

January 30, 2006

DORK FORUM

Now you can connect with your fellow Dorkers by creating an ID and posting on our new Dork Forum on the website. Get access to timely announcements, updates, discuss the film, and exchange messages with members of the DOTR cast and crew. What could be better?

January 30, 2006

DORK VIDEO – MEANIES PART 2

Part two of “Meanies In Muddle-earth” is now up in the video section of our website. Next month we should have our video from O.R.C. up on the website so stay tuned!

January 30, 2006

SMASH AT THE ONE RING CELEBRATION

Jack Peterson met with Elijah Wood again and also got to be a surprise presenter at the One Ring awards ceremony. We also managed to con Cliff Broadway (RINGERS) into helping us shoot some video for our parody documentary DORKERS. (click here to read more)

November 22, 2005

INDIANA ALUMNI MAGAZINE

In the November/December issue of Indiana Alumni Magazine (which goes out all across the country) there is a glowing review of our film as represented by our website. A few excerpts from the review:

“Here is one spoof to rule them all.”

“’Dork’ is full of laughs and nearly makes as good a website as it does a film.”

“… Richardson has created an admirable send-up on such a small budget, further establishing South Bend as the state’s little Hollywood.”

Wow, and the film’s not even done yet!

November 4, 2005

DORKS GONE WILD! SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING

Meet the cast and crew of the film and watch the movie trailer, the documentary THE MAKING OF MUDDLE-EARTH (which has screened internationally), footage of co-director Jack Peterson at conventions, new and improved computer enhanced scenes from the film and much, much more.

This sizzling event will take place Saturday, December 10 at 2:00 p.m. Indiana University South Bend at Wiekamp Hall in lecture room 1001. Visit www.iusb.edu to find the address and map information.

October 22, 2005

DORKS TO RETURN TO WEST COAST AT O.R.C. CONVENTION

All right, start packing your bags to join us at The One Ring Celebration in Pasadena, CA January 20-22. 2006. If you visit their website at http://creationent.com/cal/one_ring.htm you can see we are already scheduled to be part of the event (It’s run by the same folks who did Elf) and among the celebrity photos they have displayed you’ll notice our very own Legoblocks the Elfis grouped with LORD OF THE RINGS stars.

October 22, 2005

NEW ELF CONVENTION VIDEO ONLINE

This is the footage you’ve all been waiting for from our trip to Orlando in August. See Jack Peterson get bombarded by crazed fans and is forced to scribble his autograph on various body parts. Jack waited in line to get his mugshot taken with Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins) and we documented all his antics along the way. Check out the clip on our website in the Trailer & Videos section.

October 22, 2005

DESIGNING RANDOLF

Find out how costume designer Janice Bennett created this award-winning ensemble for our very own Randolf the Wizard. The Randolf The Grey costume recently won the Staff Choice Award at GenCon 2005 in their annual costume competition, which is quite an accomplishment. Check out the article on our website main page which includes sketches and photos of the Randolf costumes in various stages of completion.

September 12, 2005

SCREENING AT ORANJE ART FESTIVAL

ORANJE, the Midwest's premiere contemporary art & music event will take place on Saturday September 17, 2005 from 8pm until 3am in Indianapolis. They will be screening independent films, including the DOTR trailer and possibly the documentary as well. Visit www.oranjeindy.com for updates.

September 12, 2005

RADIO INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR TIM RICHARDSON

Gary Joy (Bobo Buggins) hosts his own radio program www.castingcouchradio.com. Tim will be interviewed about DOTR on Wednesday, September 14 at 5pm PST, 7pm Central time, 8 pm Eastern. It airs on the VoiceAmerica Channel at http://www.voice.voiceamerica.com and you can find more details on the website on how you can tune in and listen to the program online.

September 12, 2005

NEW GENCON TRIP VIDEO ONLINE

You can check out the new GenCon video hosted by Jack Peterson and our own fight choreographer Derek Stoelting documenting our trip down to the big event in Indy last month. Go to www.dorkoftherings.com and select the area for Trailer & Videos to check it out. You even get to watch Jack get his caricature drawn by parody singer/artist The Great Luke Ski (www.lukeski.com).

August 30, 2005

SHMOOZING WITH WOOD & ASTIN

We just got back from Orlando where we attended Elf: Weekend of Wonder with over 1,000 LOTR fans. Lots of people stopped by our booth where we had clips from the film running and Legoblocks made the rounds handing out cards and Sarah donned the infamous Nosedrool costume. Our panel presentation on Sunday went awesome, apart from a few technical difficulties, which were saved by co-director Jack Peterson’s wit.

Tim got to meet Sean Astin and plugged the film but the biggest contact was surprisingly made by our very own Jack Peterson who showed up out of the blue on Sunday, stood in a long ass photo op line, and then got his picture take with Elijah Wood himself! Elijah laughed and told him “Nice costume,” but little did he know Jack was 100% authentic. Jack told him about the film, gave him his business card, and asked him if he’d wash his car.

August 30, 2005

GENCON: WHERE TRUE DORKS RESIDE

The weekend before, a bunch of us trekked down to our very own Indy for Gen Con, a huge gaming convention with over 25,000. We handed out cards like mad and Jim (Arrogant) even gave a card to Jared the Subway guy as he passed through the convention center on his way to the Colts game. Our two panel sessions were well attended and everyone was enthusiastic and had great questions. Like why the hell we are making this thing.

The crowning moment was when David won Staff Choice Award in the annual costume contest. He didn’t place in his own category (Fantasy Characters) but won the staff’s love out of all the contestants with his costume and delightful monologue (which shamelessly promoted the film to the 1,000 audience members). Janice and David split the $50 prize and got themselves a decent meal I imagine.

August 9, 2005

DORK-UMENTARY GOES INTERNATIONAL

Our new 20-minute documentary “The Making of Muddle-earth” hosted by Jack Peterson will be screening in Germany along with the trailer at Ring*Con this October. Their website is http://www.ringcon.de We will be using the documentary as part of our seminars at future events including GenCon in Indianapolis and Elf in Orlando.

August 9, 2005

SOUTHERN FRIED DORKS

The trailer to the film will have multiple screenings at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia on September 2-5. This is one of the largest Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy conventions in the country. Visit their website at http://www.dragoncon.org.

August 9, 2005

DORK TALK AT GENCON

Our next public appearance will be at GenCon (http://www.gencon.com) and we’ll be there the evening of Friday, August 19 through Sunday, August 21. Our two seminars are Friday at 7:00 p.m. at Embassy Suites: Coronation and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. at Hyatt: Harrisons.

August 9, 2005

ONE DORK, TWO CONTINENTS

Tim, Michael, Shayne (Legoblocks) and his lovely Elvin wife Sarah will be attending Elf in Orlando on August 24-26. We will have a booth and be running a panel discussion on the making of the film. Celebrity guests include Sean Astin, Elijah Wood and John Rhys-Davies. Their website is http://creationent.com/cal/elf.htm. The very same weekend the trailer and documentary will screen at The Fellowship Festival in the UK (http://www.aaaevents.co.uk).

August 9, 2005

YOU DON’T KNOW JACK

A new weekly to bi-weekly blog by co-director Jack Peterson will start running on the website starting this month. He’ll talk about his experiences on the film, discuss post-production, and praise the cinematic value of eating cheese puffs by the score. Jack is also the host of “The Making of Muddle-earth” and each month a new clip from the documentary will appear on this website. The clip for August contains interviews with the actors and visuals from the film.

June 28, 2005

JOLLY OLD DORKS

June 18, 2005

TV INTERVIEW ON “NIGHT SHIFT”

Director Tim Richardson will be appearing with Bryce Cone (Frudo) on local (Elkhart, IN) WNIT’s live talk show Night Shift on Thursday, June 23 at 8 p.m. He’ll be showing the movie trailer as well as showing an excerpt from the film featuring Jason Mumaw (the show’s host) in his role as the multi-limbed accountant Schlaab. Website: http://wnit.org/nightshift/index.html

June 18, 2005

DORKING AT GEN CON

The cast and crew of THE DORK OF THE RINGS will be appearing at the colossal Gen Con in Indianapolis August 19-21. Be sure to check out their two excellent seminars on the making of the film Friday night at 8 p.m. and Saturday at 7 p.m. Check out Gen Con’s schedule to see where the seminars will take place. Website: www.gencon.com

June 18, 2005

DORKS TO INVADE FLORIDA

DOTR creators Tim Richardson and Michael Kouroubetes (and hopefully an actor or two) will be guests at a LOTR convention called Elf: A Weekend of Wonder in Orlando on August 26-28. They will have a promotional display and do a seminar on the making of the film, as well as showing never before seen excerpts from the film in progress. Special guests include Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd and John Noble. Website: http://creationent.com/cal/elf.htm.

June 18, 2005

NET-DORKING AT FILM FEST

Some of the dork crew attended the Waterfront Film Festival in Saugatuck, MI last weekend and hobnobbed with some celebs, including Wendie Malick (“Just Shoot Me”) and Skyler Stone (Comedy Central’s “Con”). Our dorks hyped the film to them and handed out press kits and t-shirts to only the most fortunate. Website: www.waterfrontfilm.com.

June 18, 2005

CARICATURES & DORK T-SHIRTS

Director Tim Richardson will be drawing caricatures August 1-6 at the Cass County Fairgrounds in Michigan. He’ll also be promoting the film and DOTR t-shirts will be available. We still have limited edition DOTR shirts available from this website for just $10 plus postage. Remaining sizes of this style shirt are large and extra-large. Website: http://www.casscountyfair.com.

June 18, 2005

DORK TRAILER

Our long anticipated movie trailer can now be viewed on our website in several different formats. Enjoy!

May 20, 2005

TOLCON 2005

Our cast and crew faired well in Seattle May 13-15 as we attended TolCon (www.tolcon.org) and did several panels about how we made the film and premiered our new trailer. We got to rub elbows with Kiran Shah (Elijah Wood’s scale and stunt double) and Peter Lyon (who designed and constructed many of the main swords for LOTR). You can read all about our trip and see photos in our features section of the website.

May 20, 2005

NEW T-SHIRTS

We now have our new DOTR shirts that we wore at TolCon for sale in the store section of the website. Only $10 to look like a dork!

May 20, 2005

THEONERING.NET

That famed LOTR news and rumors website theonering.net featured our story and photos from TolCon on their website May 19th. Awesome publicity!

March 9, 2005

TOLCON 2005

Our cast and crew are special guests at TolCon 2005 in Seattle May 13-15. We will be doing a panel discussion on the making of the film and have a promotional exhibit as well. For more information on the event visit their website at www.tolcon.org.

March 9, 2005

FILM FESTIVAL

The new trailer for the film will premiere at the 4th Annual IU South Bend Independent Video & Filmmakers Festival April 8 & 9. Some of the cast will be appearing in costume and we'll have a display as well. Visit www.iusb.edu/~ivff for more information.

March 9, 2005

POST-PRODUCTION

The second cut of the film has been completed and actors and doing voice recordings throughout March. Our composer Mark D'Errico has created several pieces of music and will be building from there. The art department is hard at work creating special effects so contact lead artist Ian Strandberg at recruiting@rpstudios.net if you want to join the post effects team.

March 9, 2005

INDY NEWS CHANNEL

Director Tim Richardson appeared on the IMC in Indianapolis to plug the IUSB film fest and was also able to talk a little about this film as well. Tim will go back to talk about DOTR exclusively this summer. Much thanks to Tino Marquez Jr. and Indianapolisfilm.net for setting up these interviews.