Lorien Archer writes: The special sneak peak on ‘Pirates’ did indeed air on Access Hollywood on Thursday the 27th of February. There were comments by Orlando Bloom and the other actors, and even shots on set! There was a scene where Johnny Depp actually accidentally hit Orlando with a sword, but no damage was done.

Decipher is pleased to announce that it will host its World Championships for The Lord of the Rings™ Trading Card Game and Star Trek™ Customizable Card Game, and all related DecipherCon festivities, July 24-27, 2003 at Gen Con Indy at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. [More] [Gaming Havens]

Harry from AICN e-mailed Peter Jackson to get the final word on the trailer, and Peter has confirmed what New Line studio sources revealed just a few days ago – there will be no preview added to the Towers theatrical release because of the demands of making the TTT EE DVD. However, we should see an RoTK trailer in May or June. [More]

From AICN: PJ writes: As far as I’m aware the first ROTK trailer will hit cinemas about May or June. We’re not doing a ROTK trailer for the end of Two Towers like we did last year. The reason is that the TT extended DVD has been so complex this year, it would have taken too many resources away from trying to get that finished. The FOTR extended cut had 35 extra CG shots – the TT extended cut has over 150. Weta are plowing through those, plus starting ROTK. We have a huge TT extended cut sound mix in a few weeks. It’s all very complex and we deemed an early ROTK trailer as simply too much to take on this time around.

If you live in and around the Canton, NY area head on over to St. Lawrence Univserity to catch Viggo Mortensen reading poetry, signing books and watching FOTR! [More]