From: Ita
I’m a LotR fan from Hong Kong. Maybe it’s not a fresh news to you, but i’d be glad to send you a pic. I found it in the gift package of The Hobbit available in the beginning of 2001. A brilliant ad that I love it so much! [More]
Month: March 2001
From: home.nzcity.co.nz
“Filming for the 360-million dollar budget trilogy finished in December, and the films are tipped to be bigger than “Star Wars”. [More]
From: Kimi
There is a chance we won’t have to wait a week longer than the US, depending on just when and where the premier is (probably Wellington).
“Filming for the 360-million dollar budget trilogy finished in December, and the films are tipped to be bigger than “Star Wars”.
Roadshow Film Distributors Special Projects Manager Susan Leigh says there will probably be a New Zealand premier of the first film, “The Fellowship of the Rings”, in early December.
However, she is unsure whether this will be the official premier, or whether others will be held overseas before the New Zealand screening.
Ms Leigh says part two of the trilogy “The Two Towers” will be released around Christmas 2002, and the final film, “The Return of the King”, will be released a year later.”
The Peter Jackson mockumentry ‘Forgotten Silver’ has been chosen as the movie of the day over at imdb.com. [More]
The Peter Jackson mockumentry ‘Forgotten Silver’ has been chosen as the movie of the day over at imdb.com.
IMDb Movie of the Day
Peter Jackson (who’s helming this winter’s The Fellowship of the Ring) has made sublime films (Heavenly Creatures) and silly ones (The Frighteners).
In the sublime category for Mr. Jackson is Forgotten Silver, an inventive, entertaining short film (54 minutes) about legendary New Zealand director, Colin McKenzie. That name doesn’t appear in the IMDb database because Colin McKenzie is a fiction, a creation of Jackson, and writer/director Costa Botes, and the film is a wry faux-documentary presented as film history. Jackson himself appears in Silver, claiming to have happened upon the cache of McKenzie footage by accident.
McKenzie is discovered to have been an amazing film innovator: he shoots the first tracking shot, the first close-up, the first color test, and synchronizes the first sound to his footage. Eventually, his magnum opus is his biblical epic, “Salome;” the film both ruins him and sets him off as a director to rival D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Cameos by Harvey Weinstein, Leonard Maltin , and Sam Neill all help to perpetrate this fraud, all in the service of this splendid, creative movie. [More]
From: Dúnadan
Behold brazilian fans! The brazilian magazine Veja, one of the biggest in Brazil, brought a small report about Tolkien and the production of the movies. The report came with a (possibly new) picture of Cate Blanchett (Galadriel) and one of the four hobbits.