Marcel writes: I found a fantastic interview with Andy Serkis and Barrie Osborne which was aired on the Holmes Show.(N.Z Talkhost)It deals with the making of Gollum, the Oscar nominations and ROTK. Go to video archive and scroll down to Wed. 12th of feb. [More]
Day: February 16, 2003
Irascian writes: A new series starts on BBC Radio 2 in the UK this coming Tuesday. Should be of interest to all LOTR score fans as Howard features in all four programmes in the series. The four-part series is called ‘The Sound of Movies’ and can be heard on BBC Radio 2 on Tuesday evenings beginning on 18th February from 20.30 – 21.30. The series is a celebration of movie music as well as an exploration of how composers write for the cinema. Howard Shore will be heard in all four episodes in company with other composers including: John (‘Star Wars’) Williams; Henry (‘Pink Panther’) Mancini; Elmer (‘Magnificent Seven’) Bernstein; Danny (‘Edward Scissorhands’) Elfman; David (‘Die Another Day’) Arnold; Basil (‘Conan the Barbarian’) Poledouris; Anne (‘The Full Monty’) Dudley and Stephen (‘Shakespeare in Love’) Warbeck.
Jo writes: I Just walked past our main movietheatre here in Uppsala, Sweden and to my great surprise Lord of the Rings; The Fellowship of the Ring is still running….I asked the staff and they said it has been running non-stop since is opened in December 2001 and it’s the longest running film ever. Pretty impressive…
Ingve G writes: I’ve have the official magazine for DVD rental in Norway, and it has a report on the Two Towers DVD release date. It says that a double disc theatrical version will come (to Norway anyway) on 4.august. The special extended edition and collectors box will come out 3.november.
We just wanted to take a moment to recap the answers to some of the very-frequently-asked questions that we receive from readers via email. And there are plenty of them! [More]
I just wanted to take a moment to recap the answers to some of the very-frequently-asked questions that we receive from readers via email:
- Although rumors abound, there is as of yet no definite, officially confirmed date for the release of The Two Towers on video/DVD. It will be sometime in mid-to-late summer. As soon as we find out, we’ll post it here on the front page.
- Yes, there will be an extended version DVD of The Two Towers released a few months after the theatrical version. However, we don’t know an exact date for the release yet. As soon as we find out, we’ll post it here on the front page.
- Yes, there will most likely be a preview of The Return of the King attached to The Two Towers later in its theatrical run. This is not officially confirmed yet, however. As soon as we find out, we’ll post it here on the front page.
- We don’t know how long The Return of the King will be. As soon as we find out, we’ll post it here on the front page. (It will be months before a final cut is locked, though.)
- We don’t know when The Two Towers will be leaving your local theater, nor do we have any means of finding out. This depends largely on the theatrical corporate management. Your best bet is to call your local theater yourself, and ask them.
- No, we do not know the personal email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses, romantic interests, or favorite colors of Peter Jackson, or any of the cast and crew of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (especially not Orlando Bloom!).
- The name of the actor originally cast as Aragorn is Stuart Townsend, who left the film production after a few days of shooting because of creative differences (no, we don’t know exactly what that means). Viggo was called in on very short notice to replace him. Townsend went on to star as the Vampire Lestat in the film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned.
Thanks for your attention! We make a courageous attempt to personally respond to each reader email, but we get flooded with so many redundant questions that it can be very difficult to keep up. We sometimes feel like the Ents at Isengard, digging in with our toes to keep from being washed away by the flood!