When is a movie tie-in toy more than a bit of marketing opportunism? When it sits on your desk and you play with it instead of doing work. I’ve never been a believer when it comes to commercializing movies beyond the simple box-office ticket transaction. [More]
Day: December 7, 2003
From Scotland’s Sunday Herald comes an interesting article on the Lord Of The Rings films and the dispute between the Tolkien estate (Christopher Tolkien) and Newline/Peter Jackson. Thanks to cnu nick for the link. [More]
Vincenzo writes: Medusa Film has announced the plans for the theatrical re-realase of the movies and the “Wopping Marathon” of the Full Monty version of the LOTR. [More]
Vincenzo writes: Medusa Film (the distributor of the LOTR movies in Italy) announced the plans for the theatrical re-realase of the movies (in the extended version) and the “Wopping Marathon” of the Full Monty version of the LOTR (the three movies back to back, with the extended editions of the first two before “The Return of the Kings”).
The cities are:
Milano
Roma
Cerro Maggiore
Bologna
Livorno
Torino
Montebello della Battaglia
Lecce
Salerno
And the dates are:
January, 9-15 2004: The Fellowship Extended
January, 16-20 2004: The Two Towers Extended
January, 21 2004: the Big One!
Price for the Marathon is 20 Euro (about $22), and it will include a gift of 5 original posters and an “undisclosed” additional surprise. The Main Event, on Jan 21, will be around 11 hours long. Medical assistance wii be provided if needed!
No surprise here, but The New Zealand Herald has reviewed “Return of the King” and given it an enthusastic thumbs-up. With a five-star rating, I think they’ve invented a new class of excellence 😉 [More] Spoilers
Haejin writes: The extended editions of Fellowship and Towers are being screened at the moment in Sang Am CGV theater in Seoul from December 5th to the 15th. I booked tickets last week for 2 viewings each, and “danced around like a mad thing” a la Gollum. [More]