Ataahua writes: Here’s the lead story from today’s edition of The Daily News in New Plymouth, New Zealand. I was one of the unfortunates who attended this screening! Other stuff-ups around the country included reels being wound on in the wrong order – this happened at one Auckland cinema, and viewers at a 12.01am screening found that the movie jumped from Bree to Moria, missing out Rivendell entirely. [More]
Day: December 20, 2001
It’s rare for a visual-effects facility to focus on only one project for years on end. But it’s expected-one could say necessary-when that project involves bringing to the big screen author J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic trilogy, “The Lord of the Rings.” [More]
New Line Cinema has reported an estimated opening day gross of $18.2M for its fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings which bowed on Wednesday, December 19th, after months of hype. Playing in 3,359 theaters with over 5,700 total screens, the Peter Jackson-directed adventure generated the third-largest Wednesday opening in history after 1999’s Star Wars Episode I ($28.5M from 2,970 theaters) and last summer’s Jurassic Park 3 ($19M from 3,434). [More]
Now that The Fellowship of the Ring has been playing to audiences across the world for a couple of days, it is becoming apparent that the film is every bit as much a success as we always knew it would be! Check out the current numbers. [More]
Check out this LOTR related comic from gamespy.com, thanks to Twenin for the link! [More]
Now that The Fellowship of the Ring has been playing to audiences across the world for a couple of days, it is becoming apparent that the film is every bit as much a success as we always knew it would be! The critics are unanimous, the box office numbers speak for themselves, the award nominations are beginning to roll in, and reactions from Tolkien fans as well as the previously uninitiated are through the roof! Check out these numbers:
- At the Internet Movie Database, FOTR has an average viewer rating of 9.7 out of 10, with over 3,000 votes so far. The film is currently ranked by users as the #6 film of all time, and that ranking continues to steadily rise!
- Here at TheOneRing.net, we tough-to-please fans have given the film an overall average rating of 4.6 out of 5.
- At Rotten Tomatoes, a site which provides summaries of critical reviews from a variety of sources, the movie has an astonishing 96% freshness rating (that’s 88 positive reviews from established film critics out of a total of 92).
- Business is booming: On its first day of release, FOTR grossed an incredible $18.2 million, the biggest take ever for a single day in December, and the third-biggest Wednesday opening in history (after The Phantom Menace and just behind Jurassic Park III). Expect big numbers from the upcoming holiday weekend!