AndrewR writes: Supposedly TTT just took the record for the most pre-bought tickets to a movie ever in Australia – which was set just last month with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and before that by Titanic.
Day: December 21, 2002
Chrisj4 writes that UK’s Widescreen Magazine has a LOTR dedicated issue.
Anyone with scans of the issue, send them along!
Wiredkiwi sends us some additional info on the horses used for the films: A grey Andalusian stallion named Florian was used for close up and stunt work, and his (now) owner was the riding double for Liv Tyler. [More]
Wiredkiwi sends us some additional info on the horses used for the films:
A grey Andalusian stallion named Florian was used for close up and stunt work, and his (now) owner was the riding double for Liv Tyler. Florian now gives displays at equestrian events around NZ and is standing at stud.
Strider’s horse in the film is a very high profile stallion in NZ, being one of the top dressage horses in the country, owned, trained and ridden by Bill Noble. Can’t remember the name of the horse for the life of me though. Rumor has it that Viggio Mortensen, who was the most enthused about horses of the ‘fellowship’ liked him so much he tried to by him after filming. However this was not the bay Andalusian offered for sale.
NZ Horse and Pony maazine would possibly be able to supply you with the full copy and perhaps images of the feature they did on the LOTR horses.
dapascha writes: On Wednesday december 18th The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers opened with a record number of visitors. Over 50.000 people went to see the film on the first day and caused a record box-office opening of over 350,000 Euro. [More]
dapascha writes:
Here’s a translation of a Dutch press release by the distributor of LotR here, A-Film, about new records being set here in the Netherlands:
Amsterdam, december 19th 2002
Lord of the Rings opens with record numbers
On Wednesday december 18th The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers opened with a record number of visitors. Over 50.000 people went to see the film on the first day and caused a record box-office opening of over 350,000 Euro. With this amount the second part of the Lord of the Rings breaks the record previously set by Spider-Man that held an opening day box-office of 259,295 Euro.
Many theaters decided to re-release the Fellowship of the Ring on the day before the premiere of the Two Towers, which caused the unique situation where two parts of one trilogy are in the Box-Office Top 10 at the same time. The Two Towers, based on Tolkiens famous novel, plays at 148 screens in the Netherlands. The third part, The Return of the King is expected in theaters in december 2003.
Other top-films:
Harry Potter, part 1 – 259,271 euro
Harry Potter, part 2 – 214,066 euro
Jurassic Park – 114,809 euro