Regular readers will know how good Sir Ian McKellen’s ‘Grey Books’ reports are, with their insider’s observations of the LOTR film project and his experiences while playing Gandalf. Sir Ian’s latest update is available here
Month: January 2001
From: MSNBC.com
In this Manhattan movie house, at 10:30 a.m., you can tell who isn’t here to watch Kevin Costner handle the Cuban missile crisis in “Thirteen Days.” You, sir, with the tattoos and the FRODO LIVES! T shirt? Bet you came to see the trailer for “The Lord of the Rings”? Knew it. [More]
The ‘LA TIMES’ (via DarkHorizons) has some new pics for movies to look out for in 2001. Our very own LOTR film is listed of course, as well as the Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) film ‘Heaven’. In the film Cate ‘takes justice into her own hands’, it is directed by Tom Tykwer. ‘Heaven’ was filmed in Germany and Italy, and is currently in post production.
Thanks to DH and Tim for the article!
Bad jokes heard after the LOTR Trailer….and they don’t pull any punches either, these are horrible. [More]
Thanks to Brian from Rockheads for the tip!
Somebody wrote recently to complain that ‘all the reporters ever talk about in relation to LOTR is the money.’
Articles like the following, from digitrends.net make me sympathise with him. According to this we’re all ‘Consumers’ and things like ‘The Lord of the Rings’ are just ‘Properties.’ (I’m still not sure if that’s more or less insulting than referring to books and music etc as ‘Product’) .
“RealNetworks Helps Launch Tolkein Film [sic]
“New Line Cinema’s “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy is one of the most greatly anticipated film series of the new millennium. The studio is shooting all three installments concurrently and will release one a year through 2003. And with a little less than a year before the first film hits theaters, the marketing push is already underway. New Line and RealNetworks have formed a four-year partnership to jointly promote the movies. The two companies will create and promote the Lord of the Rings RealChannel as the exclusive online source for all material from the making of the three films. Through the month of January, the Lord of the Rings trailer will be available only via the RealPlayer and the Lord of the Rings RealChannel.
“The Lord of the Rings RealChannel will set a promotional benchmark that is unparalleled and marks the most significant entertainment Internet promotion to date,” says Gordon Paddison, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing and Business Development, New Line Cinema. “In addition to establishing an ongoing relationship with the broad fan base for the Trilogy, this promotion with RealNetworks is in line with our strategic marketing objectives to expand our Internet marketing reach to include hundreds of millions of consumers who currently may not have any exposure to the property.”
Rigner Spy Fran sends in a small article from the UK newspaper ‘The Editor’. [More]