PIPE-WEED AT THE READY… AS THEY REUNITE FOR EMPIRE , IAN Mc KELLEN , ELIJAH WOOD , SEAN ASTIN , DOMINIC MONAGHAN AND BILLY BOYD LOOK BACK AT THEIR UNBREAKABLE — AND ENDURING — FRIENDSHIP

PETER JACKSON AND PHILIPPA BOYENS TELL US ABOUT THEIR EPIC QUEST TO FORGE A FAMILY – AND HOW THEY PUT TOGETHER A CREW THAT ENDURES TO THIS VERY DAY…

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‘There’s a fly floating around in my milk! There’s a foreign body in it,” the strange young man said as he sat in the back of a car. His interviewer, another Englishman, had asked him a question about

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