I arranged a pre-movie party at the Unison pool hall in St.Laurent, the manager George was very very accommodating and helped us out with all the little details you need to get in line for events like this. Nicole and Seb, two ringers who were such a great help last year, arrived again to help us, you guys were amazing help thanks! [More]
Day: December 20, 2002
Mikko writes: According to the distributor, FS-Film, The Two Towers broke all previous records: 30 427 people saw it on 18th December. That is 23 percent more than with FotR a year ago! They are now expecting TTT to attract even more viewers than FotR which was seen by 714 000 Finns.
It’s hard to believe that such a serene, refined actress could be the offspring of a rowdy rocker, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler. Yet, it’s Liv Tyler’s natural-born grace, intelligence, and beauty that make her perfect for the role of Arwen, the Elven enchantress of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. [More]
The Star reports: The Paramount theatre in downtown Toronto had the top opening day box office gross in North America for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, ringing up $114,124 in the first 24 hours of release. When three of the theatre’s screening rooms sold out for the midnight opening Wednesday morning, two more screens were added. Across Canada and the U.S., The Two Towers grossed $26 million on its opening day, smashing The Fellowship of the Rings, which opened with $18 million in its first day of release.
The actor who plays Gollum in the latest Lord of the Rings film has revealed details of a spoof take he shot for The Two Towers. The scene involved Andy Serkis as Gollum pretending to be interviewed as if he was on American TV channel E! In the comedic scene Gollum reveals that he auditioned for the role of Dobby in Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets. [More]
Director Peter Jackson doesn’t ease us back into the world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy at the beginning of the second film, The Two Towers. Instead, he hurls us headfirst into the movie screen, as if through the windshield of a crashing car. Towers begins not with a stately summary of the prior film, The Fellowship of the Ring, but by reprising one of its most famous moments and then going on to show the grand pyrotechnics previously kept “off-stage.” [More]