From: Ryan I frequent a movie-review site called rottentomatoes.com and it is always wonderful. I just saw that…
Continue ReadingFrom: Ryan
I frequent a movie-review site called rottentomatoes.com and it is always wonderful. I just saw that they have a page rating the newest trailers for upcoming movies. Guess what? Our little FOTR is the ONLY movie trailer that the guy gave all five stars (the best rating) to, even beyond Apocalypse Now Redux! [More]
From: Derceto
While none of the two trailers have been shown in theaters here, Kinowelt Hungary (the hungarian distributor of FOTR) intend to release the film on the 19th of december. More precisely, they said they want to start showing the film before US theaters do on the very same day, Hungary is in CET-zone. It’s not official, but they were pretty sure about it.
Hollywood one-one-one did a short insert on the upcoming movies this evening. Several comments were passed about how unusual it was for the show to run an slot on a movie only coming onto circuit in December, but that it looked like “one of the greatest stories ever told” could well turn into “one of the greatest movies ever made”.
Some stats about the number of copies of the books sold and the number of languages the story has been published in were thrown about, along with a few comments about the size of the project undertaken.
The slot showed footage from the Cannes festival along with interviews of PJ and the hobbits and film footage from the first cinematic trailer (twice!!), which was great to see again on a screen bigger than my 13″ monitor!!
The whole article gave the impression that film was definitely something worth looking forward too and had the potential be something truly great.
We here at TORN have just learned of the passing of Brother Theodore, one of the finest dark comedians in history, and also, the talented man who did the voice of Gollum in Rankin-Bass’ 1978 animated production of [The Hobbit]. He died April 5th, 2001 at the ripe age of 94. [More]
From: Max Castle
Hey there – not sure if you’re still posting notices about the LoTR trailer being seen in theatres, but I can report that it’s finally here on the east coast of Canada – saw it attached to “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”.
From: Druid64
At the Westbank Palace Theatre in New Orleans, I just saw the second FOTR trailer in front of Tomb Raider.
From: Bruce S
I’m shooting you a quick email to let you know that there is a piece on Cannes in the latest (July 3, 2001) issue of The Advocate, the national (US) gay & lesbian news magazine.
The title of the article is “Lord of the Cannes” and the first paragraph is about LOTR, focusing on Ian McKellen. Both of the pictures that accompany the article are party-related LOTR shots. One is a picture of McKellen and the hobbit actors (he really is taller than all of them!), and the other is a small inset shot of the castle where the party was held.
The article describes McKellen as heroic and says that the hottest ticket in town was the 25 minute screening of LOTR. Elijah Wood is described as looking “delectable” in the footage. Next there was some familiar info about the Cannes party, and finally there was one new bit (to me): an awful pun from one of the Hollywood trade periodicals, “Be a Frodo; be very a Frodo.”
The rest of the article talks about the non-LOTR Cannes scene.
