Super Spy Fleagol got his hands on the latest Entertainment Weekly and sent us these scans. WOW!


Arwen on Cover of EW. Did Arwen cut herself with that sword??!?! :’P

Here are the closeups of those pages:

Page 38

Page 39

Click on the above images to zoom and and get the text of the EW spread.

From: The folks at Corona

Michael DeLuca has stepped down as head production burrito at New Line Cinema after eight years. 2000 was not a very stellar year for the studio, with films like Little Nicky nowhere near recuperating its costs and Dungeons & Dragons not living up to expectations. As a result, DeLuca is out and is expected to be succeeded by New Line music president Toby Emmerich, who also scribed Frequency for the studio. No definite word yet on what DeLuca will do next, though he has been offered a production deal at the studio.

Ringer Mark sends in a heads up of two stories in today’s Syndey Morning Herald (Jan 18th):

Coming Lord of the ClicksTrue Hobbit fans, prepare to watch and weep as the commercial juggernaut that will carry tonnes of Lord of the Rings merchandise into stores builds speed online and off… [More]

Teasing Australians into a hobbit habitWhen the trailer for the film The Lord of the Rings was released in the United States last Friday, hard-core J.R.R.Tolkien fans queued in the pouring rain for up to 12 hours to see just one minute and 46 seconds of footage… [More]

Observant ringer fan Lindsay sent us this news:

I was watching Access Hollywood today, and they anounced that they would be showing the preview tomorrow(Jan.18).

Great news!!! Get those VCR’s running folks..:) Want to know when Access Hollywood is showing in your neighborhood? Check out their listings page. [More]

It was filmed mainly in Wellington, but Americans will get to see the first Lord Of The Rings film a week earlier than Kiwis. [More]

(I don’t know where they get their info from, but this NZ paper claims that about ’20 or so’ people lined up in LA, I’m sure it was more than that. And they claim alot of people didn’t want to stay for the film ’13 Days’, how would they know? – Xo)

Ringer Spy Dave sends in some interested news from the world of Stuart Townsend, the ‘first’ Aragorn.

For those that do not know or remember way back in October of 1999 I’ll help you refresh your memory.

Townsend, an Irish actor in his 20’s was first chosen to play Aragorn. He flew down to New Zealand and was on the set opening day. A week later we broke the story that he has left, and that Viggo Mortensen is in. There were rumors about ‘creative differences’ and all the typical stuff you hear about ‘trouble’ on a hollywood movie set.

Dave managed to corner Stuart at a charity event and asked him the big question; ‘why did you leave LOTR?’

(Stuart) said he basically went along (to New Zealand), they made him up as Aragorn and he just didnt look old/scruffy enough for PJs taste . He said it was amicable & he would have loved to have worked on it, also he said he’s a huge fan and would be going
along to see it.

Think this is true? I do, Stuart did not have the pull or the clout to start giving enough attitude to PJ, plus he was there only a week, how much supposed fighting could have taken place? Stuarts quote is most likely what actually happened that fall week back in 1999.