From: Dave M
Just thought I would inform you that the internet trailer has been getting airtime on NumberOne in Turkey (a music TV channel) in their computer/internet spot.
Month: August 2001
Don’t get him wrong – Lawrence Makoare would not for one moment want to be seen as pulling rank on his senior colleague. But he does let slip that they’ve made two (count ’em) dolls of his Lurtz, one of Saruman’s “big fighting beasts” in The Lord of the Rings – and he enjoyed telling Temuera Morrison that he’d outscored his Star Wars character in the race for plastic immortality. [More]
Thanks to RJ for the tip!
Ringer Spy PT follows up on yesterday’s news about the LOTR premieres around the world and more info on what they plan to do about pirates in Asia:
Apparently a contract between New Line and the cinemas displaying the films will be enforced world wide. [More]
Ringer Spy PT follows up on yesterday’s news about the LOTR premieres around the world and more info on what they plan to do about pirates in Asia:
Apparently a contract between New Line and the cinemas displaying the films will be enforced world wide. This contract is something that apparently American cinemas have already had a chance to see.
The contract has been re-written to include rules on the viewing of the films. The document includes restrictions such as “No person may enter the theatre with any form of recording device” these devised include cameras, laptops, tape recorders etc etc.
“No employee of the theatre may view the film during work hours” – so all you projectionists will have to put it on then turn away. It apparently goes on and on and I questioned the validity of some of the things I heard such as enforced searching of patrons however it does appear the New Line are trying to put the emphasis on the theatre to stamp out illegal practices and spoilers. Not that much different to the way the release of Star Wars went down.
However the Asian release will be late due to some apparent translation problems – or is this just a cover for the truth (pirates in Asia beware)…
The Argentinian Tolkien Society (Asociación Tolkien Argentina, ATA) is doing ‘Tolkien 2001’ which is their big annual party about the writer. There´ll be live music, fan art, movie trailers, Middle-earth products, and much more. They’ve done it for the past two years and more than 2000 people came.
Thanks to Fabius Feadur for the news, who also adds, “We are a little association, but growing, 250 members – the first and greatest in South América!”
This sounds like we’re making it up but we’re not. Finally somebody’s found out more details: we have the NPR’s morning edition to thank for this interview on Realplayer. Thanks to Jonathon for the tip. [More]