Torquemada writes: Empire magazine will have a live webcast from Leicester Square on the 10th. Check out the Empire Online website. [More]
Day: December 4, 2001
LONDON (Reuters) – “The Lord of the Rings” will be a blockbuster film, according to a critic who saw it ahead of its London premiere on December 10. [More]
Playing the wizard Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings may make Sir Ian McKellen the world’s best-known gay man. And he’s armed and ready to carry the fight for equality along with him. [More]
Mikko writes: Tens of thousands of tickets were sold for the Fellowship of the Ring, 21 000 tickets were sold during the first 6 hours – twice the amount of advance sales for Harry Potter. [More]
Both Kjartan and Sam mailed in to say that the first Norwegian review of Fellowship of the Ring is now available on the ‘Net. [More]
Peter Jackson sounds calm. But he always sounds calm. For a man at the centre of a grand $600 million gamble – the three films of his Lord of the Rings adaptation – he comes across as so self-possessed it’s weird. [More]