Private Ryan sends in his own little tale on how he finally found the FotR DVD, after an exhaustive search – with a happy ending. [More]
Day: August 5, 2002
Chuck writes: I have a complete report of my experience at Comic-Con, complete with pictures of Dom, Richard, and some of the most impressive items at WETA. [More]
Gannoum writes: Today (August 5), I called to a Blockbuster store in São Paulo, Brazil next to my house and they already have the DVD and VHS! I’ve made a “pre-order”, so I am with the DVD in my hands! Yeah!
Helen writes: Just writing to let you know that the DVDConcept.com shipped their LOTR FOTR and I received mine last Tuesday 30 July 02. Friends really jealous, but it is region 1 and you do need a multi region player. Don’t know if any region 2 have shipped in UK.
Xoanon here, seems our reports about Sean Connery being Gandalf all those years ago were NOT far from the truth!
It has emerged that Sir Ian McKellan was not the first choice to play pointy-hatted wizard Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings film. Bizarrely, the film’s makers first offered the role to Sean Connery, of all people, who turned it down as soon as he had read the script. ‘I had never read Tolkien, and I didn’t understand the script when they sent it to me. Bobbits? Hobbits?’ [More]
lilcritter writes: There is a store in Houston, but I’m not sure if it’s Circuit City or Best Buy, that is having a midnight release party, too. In addition, our little Blockbuster is now open til 1 a.m. so that we can go get our DVDs at 12:01 tonight instead of waiting til tomorrow morning at 10:00.