Bruce has been nominated for a 2010 Corporate Events Guide Awards(People's Choice Award)
CATEGORY: BEST NATIONWIDE DJS AND MCS
VOTING DATES: 21st Feb 2010 - 1st Oct 2010
www.peopleschoiceawards.co.nz
Bruce
sent along this link to an interview he did recently with Leo
Oorschot of Dehobbit. Check it out Here at
www.dehobbit.net
Gidday, Bruce Hopkins here, I am wanting to inform
you I have posted a link to my latest blog on the RadiolIve
website. I host a graveyard talkback show 1am-6am, every
second weekend... and you thought the breakfast show on radio
was the top slot, well know you know, all breakfast show hosts
are just hoping that one day they too will be elevated to the
shift before theirs!...oh yes the graveyard... RadioLive are
aiming to create a strong online presence and have asked hosts
to post blogs and youtube video links each week. Here is my
latest blog effort posted a few days ago. If you have time
check out the first one I posted also, and I invite you to
leave comments at the end of the blog, your comments make a
difference...tell me an idiot if that's what you feel, or
simply that you agree or disagree with any sentiments I post.
I will be posting weekly. At the end of the latest blog there
is a link to a couple of photos from my first ever trip to
Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf, just in case anyone
feels like a reminder of what a beautiful place we are blessed
to live in here in NZ. Radio Live
Blog
Cheers,
remember, only 10 1/2 months till christmas
View the trailer for Taika Waititis new film Boy which was shown at Sundance. Note from Bruce:"
The film played in competition at Sundance this year. I am a huge fan of Taikas, and he was one of the directors on the Flight of The Conchord series. His short film 2 cars 1 night,
was an academy award finalist for short film a few years ago."
Note from Bruce:"This one is a trailer for a doco being made by award winning doco maker Annie Goldson and follows the journey of Rob hamill as he seeks justice for his brothers execution by the Khmer Rouge during Pol Pots barbaric regime in Cambodia. Rob Hamill is a kiwi who broke the record for rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. During his arduous journey he made the decision to seek justice for his brother Kerry who had been sailing around the world. While off the coast of Cambodia, Kerry and his 2 crewmates were seized, interrogated tortured forced to sign 'confessions' and executed. The doco titled "Brother Number One", follows Rob as he pursues his mission, travelling to Cambodia to attend the trial of his brother's torturer, Comrade Duch.
I met Rod and Annie before they travelled to Cambodia in 2009.
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Welcome to Bruce-Hopkins.com
Gidday, and welcome to
this web site.
My name is Bruce Hopkins,
(in fact Raymond Bruce Hopkins, however not even my
parents,
Bill and Coe, call me Raymond, so Bruce it
is!).
This web site was created in 2003 to respond to
interest
in my work as an actor, in particular my role of
Gamling in
Peter Jackson's trilogy of films based on JRR
Tolkien's
renowned book, 'The Lord Of The Rings'.
I have however, been around the thespionic scene in
New Zealand for many moons, and so my resume in
fact
includes such shows as the acclaimed American tele
features
'Murder in Greenwich', and 'Ike: Days Of Thunder'.
There are also numerous appearances in various
television
series including 'Xena', 'Hercules' and
'Lawless'.
On stage, young Willie Shakespeare's ‘MacBeth’,
Steven Berkoff's
‘East’ and ‘West’, and a number of shows with the
world renowned
Inside-Out Productions team of Mike Mizrahi and
Mari Adams, are
particular highlights of a now 20 year career.
I will endeavour to keep in touch by updating this
site,
so feel free to pop in from time to time. With the
aid of the
wonderful webmaster Janet Sella we will post photos
etc.
from fan conventions etc.
Cheers and thanks for dropping by, feel free to let
other
people know about the site, and if you have time
check out
a new venture I am taking part in, creating
webcasts for websites with a company called The
Radio Agency, to check it out click here.
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BRUCE CONVENTION SCHEDULE (all dates subject
to change):
None at this time.
PROJECT LINKS:
Jennifer Ward-Lealand sent along two photos of a new show she and Bruce are making now.
They're behind-the-scenes photos from an episode of The Jacqui Brown Diaries that is slated to air sometime in the fall(NZ spring).
This is a New Zealand TV3 project. Exact dates will be posted as they are known.
Bruce
passes along this info:"I am in Toa Fraser's new
film "My
Talks with Dean Spanely" starring Sam Neill and
Peter O'Toole, which
apparently got a huge reception at the Toronto
Festival. I also just
shot a scene in Jonathon King's film "Under the
Mountain".
Bruce
wrote:"The last film I did was a low ( very low!!!
) budget thriller on the
gold coast of Australia called
The film features a reknowned
US wrestler Scott Levy "Raven".
I got asked to do it by one of the producers who is
a friend of my
australian nephew Jed Cahill, who by the way is
achieving incredible
results with both his short film festival and film
making education
programme that he takes on the road across
australia, out to outback
areas etc. He has driven the whole thing himself
and is in fact at a
pivotal point for his future direction as money is
also something he
has to address. Despite having Jack Thompson as his
patron and receivng
massive accolades for all he is doing he finds
paying the bills a
challenge. This is a bit of an aside but check out
his set up on
http://www.inthebin.net.au/welcome/page1.php
'Hired Guns' is a HD
digital feature that is in the works.
Visit their website at Hiredguns.vec
tortv.com
for more information. Bruce is slated to portray
the character of Ace High Caulder. Others are
in talks for the other roles.
Bruce just did the movie
You Move You Die.From Bruce: "I got
called in
at the last minute when the film maker, Ketzal
Sterling, decided he
wanted to change the ending. He wrote the scenes in
that I play and it
ended up being a great experience which by all
accounts has worked a
treat." You can also find out more about the movie
at the IMDB page for You Move You
Die.
Bruce worked with Andy Serkis on a new Play Station
3 game, release date to be announced. Heavenly Sword.
Bruce sends along this photo of the crew: "Members of the Heavenly Sword fraternity
training, using empty bottles in which to conceal
said swords!!! From
left, Ewan "the boss", Tameem "the real boss",
Chris "an Aussie in
London" , sober driver, a guy from England and the
beaming Stewart." Otherwise known as: Ewan,
Tameem, Chris, Bruce, Andy and Stuart.
Currently in Auckland, Nz
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