Yahoo! News have one of their reporters recapping the first day of the New York Licensing Show 2001 and she managed to talk to New Line’s Vice President of Licensing & Merchandising, David Imhoff who revealed some of his thoughts on marketing the films. [More]
Month: June 2001
The June 4 NZ ‘Woman’s Day’ magazine has a short thing on LOTR with a lot of pics we’ve seen, but also this one of PJ. From the size of the table he’s sitting at -given that he’s about 5’3″ tall himself, max – he must be in the small set of Bag End. I didn’t spot that until I thought ‘Funny, I never imagined PJ and Fran having one of those Olde Worlde kitchens with copper pots everywhere…..say, what are those cables doing on the floor there?’ [More]
The film versions of the Lord of the Rings’ trilogy have pumped about $200m (£138m) into the economy of the New Zealand capital city, where much of it was filmed. [More]
I know we’ve reported this beofre, but I just love this story. Here it is again, this time from Greek movie magazine ‘Cinema’. [More]
I know we’ve reported this beofre, but I just love this story. Here it is again, this time from Greek movie magazine ‘Cinema’.
“If you are a maniac Tolkien fan and you can’t wait for the release of the Lord of the Rings, if you are already looking for memorabilia and gadgets from the upcoming trilogy at e-bay, then it’s better that you don’t read further on. The star of the movie, Liv Tyler (Arwen), after the end of filming received as a gift the ears that she was wearing during filming, and instead of insuring them as a future collector’s item, she left them for a week on the dushboard of her car. When she went to look for them she found in their place a sticky substance….. Disaster, but I am sure that even this sticky substance can be sold at a good price….”
Thanks to Unono for the translation!
TORN Staffer Glaurung sends along an article from the story we’ve been reporting on about Mark Ordesky and New Line donating money to local NZ schools. [More]