The Howard Shore concert promoters wrote to say that there has been a slight delay on tickets going on sale and these will now be available via Ticketek as on Saturday November 1.

All Ticketek operators should now be aware that this is a pending event. The concert is now called, ‘Lord of the Rings Symphony: Live!’ and it will feature music adapted from Mr Shore’s scores from all three films of Peter Jackson’s astonishing LOTR trilogy.

Ranger writes: I was on the Greater Union Birch Carroll & Coyle (Australia’s biggest and oldest cinema chain) website and saw on their page for ROTK the running time listed as 210mins (3 hours and 30 mins). I filled out their online contact us form and asked them if this was the offical running time or not. I got this reply a few mins ago…[More]

Ranger writes: I was on the Greater Union Birch Carroll & Coyle (Australia’s biggest and oldest cinema chain) website and saw on their page for ROTK the running time listed as 210mins (3 hours and 30 mins). I filled out their online contact us form and asked them if this was the offical running time or not. I got this reply a few mins ago:

Thank you for your email.

This is the confirmed runnning time for Return of the King.
Kind regards,

Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle

So there you have it! You cant email them directly, you have to fill out the online form thing. This seems pretty concrete to me!

The Greater Union site is “a 50/50 joint venture” with Roadshow Distributors according to their website. So I guess we can hardly get a better confirmation than that. Roadshow are the ones who distribute the prints to the cinemas in Australia!

The 2003 ‘Men of the Year’ edition of GQ Magazine is out. Viggo Mortensen and Peter Jackson are included on the list. [More]

More Dallas ComicCon 2003 Images - Sala Baker
Sala Baker at Dallas ComicCon 2003

Teri sends along another great batch of images from this past weekends Dallas ComicCon which saw Sala Baker, Brad Dourif and John Rhys-Davies as special guests. [More]