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30 April

Xena DVD News

Good News / Bad News for Aussies and Kiwis

After a long delay of not getting word about whether Season 4 to 6 will be released in Australia on DVD, I've received word today from Dave that Seasons 4, 5 and 6 will be released on 28 July 2004 for Australia and New Zealand (Region 4) - each season will be a six disc boxset similar to Seasons 1 to 3. Unfortunately, it seems that we won't be getting any of the extras that Region 1 is getting - just the episodes. Bummer.
Many thanks to Dave for the information

Xena Articles

  • Added scans of an article from Oprah Magazine - May 2004 which looks at female role models / action heroines from Wonder Woman, Cagney & Lacey, Xena and the rest of the action heroes that followed Xena.

 

Updated: 29 April

Lucy Articles

Xena Articles

Xena DVD News

  • Updated Region 1 (US/Canada) DVD News with Season 4 Press Release of the upcoming extras which include: Interviews with Actors, Producers, Writers, Directors and Costume Designers including: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Michael Hurst, Rob Tapert, Hudson Leick, Ted Raimi, R.J. Stewart, Steven L. Sears, Donald Duncan, Robert Field, Jane Holland, Rick Jacobson and many more!

    Video & Audio Commentaries with Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Executive Producer Robert Tapert and Co-Producer Chris Manheim

    Director's cuts of the episodes: "Between the Lines," "A Good Day" and "Locked Up and Tied Down"

    Special Featurettes
    Bringing Monsters to Life at K.N.B. EFX Group
    "Adventures in Sin Trade": An Exploration
    Bruce & Ted "Cabin Fever"

    Bloopers / Outtakes

    Photo Gallery

    CD-ROM features including:
    Actor, Director and Writer Biographies
    Series Trivia
    Xena Chronicles
    Extensive Original Production Designs and Sketches
     

 

Updated: 28 April

Lucy News

More about the "Naked Samoans" cartoon that Lucy did a voice for one of the characters. It's actually called "bro'Town". and will be seen on TV3 in NZ

The series is described in an interview with Oscar Kightley in NZ Listener and it discusses the cartoon show that willbe called "bro'Town" which is based on the Naked Samoans comedy group

Philip Matthews talks to Oscar Kightley, playwright and sports presenter.
As well as writing Niu Sila, you have been involved in transforming your Naked Samoans comedy group into cartoon characters for a show called bro'Town. Let's talk about both.

Bro'Town is a primetime animated sitcom that's going to hit New Zealand in a few months on TV3. It's going to be awesome. We grew up watching Fat Albert -- it was a cartoon and they were dark as well.

Read entire interview on http://www.listener.co.nz/default,1773.sm

Lucy Magazine Alert

  • Kiwi Attic has two magazines from NZ for those interested. One of them is the NZ TV Guide and the other is NewsDay - if you wish to purchase these two magazines contat Crispian from kiwiattic kiwiattic@xtra.co.nz

Updated: 27 April

Many thanks for the suggestions for the Lucy Card 'n' Quote section - I've now added a Xena section with Xena quotes, artwork and the Xena theme music. Click here to view the Xena Card 'n' Quote section

I will be adding a Renee and Gabrielle Postcard sections shortly. I haven't forgotten Renee <g>

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Lucy News

  • News from the WIFTI Summit that Lucy attended in New Zealand is that she revealed she has done voice work as a character in an upcoming NZ animated film called "The Naked Samoan".

Articles

26 April

New section

  • Added a new Lucy postcard section called "Lucy Card 'n' Quote". Send a friend or yourself Lucy artwork with a Lucy quote! Feedback and suggestions for improving this section is most welcome :)

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New MaryD Art

Lucy News

There is an interview with Zoe Bell (Lucy's stunt double) about her work on Kill Bill on the BBC site http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/04/16/zoe_bell_kill_bill_interview.shtml

I'd done all the wirework before when I was working on Xena: Warrior Princess, so it was second nature to me. The hard part was stylistically making the change. When I worked on Xena I had to concentrate on fighting like Lucy Lawless. In Kill Bill I not only had to stop fighting like Lucy, after three years of copying her moves, but start fighting like a Wu Shu martial artist. I'd never done Wu Shu before so mentally it was a massive challenge

Updated: 25 April 2004

Lucy Lawless


Added transcript and scans from The Sunday Telegraph TV Guide - 25 April - 1 May 2004. Lucy talks about the Warrior Women series that will be on Discovery in Australia, a little about a possible Xena movie and Eurotrip

The following is from Stuff.co.nz about the WIFTI summit that was held in NZ from 21-24 April.

....Some of the country's best-known film and TV faces were in the crowd, including former Xena star Lucy Lawless, actors Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Cliff Curtis and Perfect Strangers director Gaylene Preston.

Lawless, based in LA for the last eight years, came home for the summit and told the Sunday Star-Times she hoped to soon move here for good.

"I'm trying to get something down here, that's the dream. It feels like I've been away too long. I think there's a real sense of excitement here, like it's a burgeoning spirit."

Click here to read entire article

 

Updated: 24 April 2004

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Warrior Women News

I got a bit of a thrill (I need to get out more...) on seeing the Lucy advert on the Discovery Channel for Warrior Women in Australia. The doco is also featured in a composite for shows on the Discovery Channel which does show Wang Cong'er on a horse but one thing to notice in the advert - the story of Wang Cong'er- is missing from the advert and only Joan, Grace, Lozen and Boudica are shown along with Lucy. 

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Boogeyman News

 

Updated: 23 April 2004

Xena DVD News

Xena: DVD - Season 4 preorder from Amazon.com


The cover for the Season 4 DVD has been released and I'm very happy to see that Gabrielle is on the cover with Xena - as it should be and about time.

Click on the thumbnail for the larger image

Warrior Women

News for US Fans

  • It's not good news. The official word back from Discovery USA is that they don't have the rights to the doco and it won't be shown. The only way it will be seen in the US is if it comes out on video/dvd or rental.
    Many thanks to AJ for passing that along.
  • If you are in the US and want to see WW there is an online petition underway - not sure how successful this will be but you'll never know if you don't have a go..so sign it and see what happens - there are 654 signatures so far http://www.petitiononline.com/ll61701x/petition.html
     

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