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]
Month: December 2001
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]
While we knew that our popularity would increase with the approach of Dec 19, it still caught us with our pants down to some degree. Over the last couple of days, significant changes have been made to the site which have resulted in a dramatic speed up.
The change that will be most noticed is a change to the poll on our front page. Previously if you had not voted it would present you with your choices and allow you to vote on the front page. Now you will need to click the “Vote Now” button to go to where you can vote. Poll results will still be displayed on the front page. Those results are updated every 5 minutes.
Hope you all enjoy the site. And I hope we can continue impoving things.