Eee! As a LOTR fan, this is some exciting news!

I’m also pleased to announce that Lee Pace will be playing the Elven King Thranduil. Casting these Tolkien stories is very difficult, especially the Elven characters, and Lee has always been our first choice for Thranduil. He’s going to be great.  We loved his performance in a movie called “The Fall” a few years ago, and have been hoping to work with him since.  When we were first discussing who would be right for Thranduil, Lee came into mind almost immediately.

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Congrats Lee!

After meeting M & M (Max Winker and Michael Angarano) back at SXSW, I was excited to hear they were in town with a new edition to their delectable duo, actor Lee Pace of their movie CEREMONY. At the top of the Empire State Building, I met with the three lads to catch up on their experience traveling with the film, sporting fake mustaches, British accents, the power of Uma Thurman and future upcoming projects (including the much anticipated TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN).

How has it been since SXSW, traveling the festival circuit and getting ready to release in theatres this weekend?

Max: We’ve had a lot of fun! We’ve been getting to go to really cool cities and talk to people about the movie. Our New York premiere was just last night which was very exciting for us. It seems like people like the movie which is very nice for us to hear.

Michael: So exciting. Like we always say about the movie, it’s a very personal movie and it’s very important. You know, I am very encouraged when people say they like the movie. It feels much more personal and very special. It’s very exciting now that people are going to finally see it.

Lee: I just had a fun time making it. I had fun working with these guys! My memory of the movie is just living in that house together, the cast spent a lot of time together. I just remember messing around and then to see the movie cut together, I’m really proud to be a part of it.

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Lee did a special exclusive greeting for the Twilight fans which was released via Twilight’s official facebook and you can check out his greeting below!

Thank you for helping THE TWILIGHT SAGA Facebook page hit 20 million fans! In celebration, watch this exclusive video greeting by Lee Pace from the set of BREAKING DAWN!

Caps have also been added to the gallery!

GALLERY LINK:
– The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) > Special Greeting

After winning us over as a hapless pie maker in the critically adored Pushing Daisies, Lee Pace takes on a new kind of role in this month’s Ceremony: the bad guy. Helmed by first-time director Max Winkler, the story follows Sam (played by Michael Angarano), a recent college graduate so head-over-heels in love with Uma Thurman’s Zoe that he crashes her wedding. Pace plays Whit, the documentary filmmaker about to marry Zoe, who may or may not be on to Sam’s plan to steal away his fiancé. As the self-obsessed Whit, Pace still manages to be a charmer even with a whopper of a British accent. We caught up with Pace to talk to him about working with a first-time director and Uma Thurman’s sense of style.

GILLIAN MOHNEY: The movie is set at a weekend wedding, so you basically had to party for about a month—what was that like onset?

LEE PACE: That’s basically what making the movie was—it was just really fun. Every day was fun. It was really good group of people. It was a really enjoyable movie to make. You hope it translates to the screen—sometimes it doesn’t. You can be having a good time and it’s a bad movie.

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Photos from the Ceremony New York screening are starting to trickle in and I’ve added the first few images from the event.

GALLERY LINK:
– Appearances > 2011 > “Ceremony” New York Screening

Hopefully more will be added soon, so check back for updates later!

Yesterday, Lee attended the after party for “Henry’s Crime” over in New York. A photo of him at the after party has been added to the gallery.

GALLERY LINK:
– Appearances > 2011 > The Cinema Society & Moving Pictures with Deleon Tequila host the after party for “HENRY’S CRIME”

Lee turns 32 today and from us at LPN, I’d like to wish him an amazing birthday!

In honor of his birthday, I’ve also added screencaptures from the second season of Pushing Daisies to the gallery! The captures from the missing episodes will hopefully be uploaded by next week. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINKS:
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×01: Bzzzzzzzzz!
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×02: Circus, Circus
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×03: Bad Habits
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×04: Frescorts
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×05: Dim Sum Lose Some
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×06: Oh Oh Oh… It’s Magic
– Pushing Daisies (2007 – 2009) > Season Two > Screencaptures > 2×13: Kerplunk

Some very lucky fans ran into Lee and his Breaking Dawn co-star, Mia Maestro, two days ago and managed to get a photo with the two. You can check out the fullsized image by clicking the pic below!

Thanks to epnebelle on twitter!

Here’s another recent interview Lee did, this time with the New York Post!

Lee Pace’s small and big screen work has been populated by projects that vary in plot, tone and aesthetic but could all be described as having an indie sensibility. Except for “Marmaduke” … but like everyone else (Lee included) I’m going to forget that even exists. Yes, from “Pushing Daisies” to “The Fall,” everything Lee attaches his name to manages to land a few inches off center, yet leaves you with the distinct impression that was its intended target all along

“Ceremony” is the latest notch in Lee’s indie belt which sees him play Whit, a slightly pompous documentary filmmaker whose wedding to Zoe (Uma Thurman) hits a speedbump when her wise-cracking, oddly-talking, crazy in love ex-boyfriend Sam (Michael Angarano, in a star-making performance) shows up uninvited.

But what makes Whit greater than your average groom is just how wholly he welcomes Sam, leading to a series of ingenious situations that make “Ceremony” one of the most surprisingly charming films of the year. I recently sat down with Lee to talk about making this movie, life after “Pushing Daisies” and why a vampiric role in “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn” doesn’t actually diverge from his indie sensibility.

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Hulu recently posted this clip from Ceremony which features a bit of Lee.