Mary sends in word that Elijah Wood (Frodo) will be on the cover of the latest issue of ‘Parade’ Magazine (on newsstands this Sunday December 15th). Keep an eye out for that!
Day: December 12, 2002
Ianthe sends in word about Vivendi’s ever-growing financial issues, interesting to note that they sold off Houghton Mifflin (publisher of all the works of Tolkien in the US) to raise some much needed cash. [More]
‘While anyone with the sense of a common greenfly will be curled up over the Christmas holiday with a copy of the Extended Fellowship of the Ring spinning happily in their DVD player, director, Peter Jackson has already got the next set of home releases planned. While we’ll doubtless see a standard release of The Two Towers next year, we’ll very likely see a second extended edition emerge towards the tail-end of 2003, including a wealth of material that didn’t make the film’s final cut.’ [More]
Ianthe writes: You might like to track today’s news announcements about the French raid on the headquarters of Vivendi Universal. That omni-industry supergiant owns Houghton Mifflin – which in turn is the publisher of LoTR. It’s also under close Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.
Part of what’s being looked into is mis-stating of financials that made the firm look healthier than in fact it was. One of the results of the disclosure of Vivendi’s liquidity crisis was their selling Houghton Mifflin to raise cash.
Tracking the thing from the LoTR perspective is a bit like watching one spot on the back of a leaping jaguar, but it’s interesting none the less.
Here’s one link from the Boston Globe. I am sure just about every other news outlet has similar articles: [More]
TimD writes: I work for a telephone directory publishing company. Occasionally we will include erroneous listings in the white pages to help us track the use (and misuse) of our directories. As a lark we included a couple of famous Middle Earth denizens with my home address and I got some correspondence a couple of days ago from a major credit card company. It’s nice to know even hobbits and elves can get a good line of credit! [More]
Andrew writes: On a local news program tonight they had a clip of the London and Paris TTT Premieres and said that the premiere in Australia would be on Thursday, 19th December at Fox Studios (Home of the Matrix), Moore Park, Sydney. The movie doesn’t actually open nationally till the 26th.