Mike sends us the latest happenings all the way from South Africa, check it out! [More]
Month: December 2001
Mike sends us the latest happenings all the way from South Africa, check it out!
I didn’t win this week’s ‘Quest for the Ring’ competition in the Sunday Times Newspaper, someone else (who’s probably never heard of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ won). Oh well, I guess I’ll have to enter again this week. Speaking of which, this week you can win five tickets to the South African premiere for the film which is also on December 10th. The press will be invited to this screening and, since South Africa is ahead of London, I think our premiere will actually be before their’s. Don’t know if any celebrities will be here, but I know Ian McKellen loves coming to South Africa (nah, he’ll probably go to the London one – so would I). I think the screening will be followed by champaigne and interviews for TV (i.e. what did you think?), so I don’t know if you can buy tickets or not, but if you can, they’ll probably set one back a bit.
South African advance ticket sales for the film go on sale this Friday I think. Also, a new cinema called ‘The Labia on Kloof’ (Kloof Street) is opening on December 19th with – yeah, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ as there first film. They’re getting huge banners and cardboard standups and guess who’s been promised one? (he he he).
There’s also a new LOTR competition for DSTV subscribers this month, where people can win books, rings, soundtracks etc.
Also tonight on ‘Carte Blanche’ on M-NET at 19.00 they’re having a special on LOTR and tracing back its South African origins (Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein – if I was born there I’d also move).
That’s it for all the LOTR stuff happening in South Africa. Something tells me the hype’s begun.
Stephen writes: Just to let you know in the Mail on Sunday today in the UK you get a souvenir magazine and a CDROM with some of the ‘Behind the scenes” bits from the official website, 2 songs from the soundtrack, all three theatrical trailers and wallpaper and theatrical savers.
The helicopter floats toward Kahurangi National Park, and New Zealand unrolls beneath you. You see farmlands almost fluorescent green. Mountains straight out of a model-train set. [More]
Tolkientheo saw a new LOTR:FOTR commercial during SNL tonight, he sent us the details. [More]
Tolkientheo writes: I Don’t know if anyone has reported this yet but between 10:40-11:10 CT at a commercial break during Saturday Night Live tonight, I saw what was in my opinion the best of all of the FOTR tv spots. It couldn’t have been more than 30 seconds long. It began with (bear with me, saw it once, went by really fast) the shot of the trail in the forest during hobbit lunch break, than Frodo giving his “get off the road” line. Then I thought it showed a shot looking at expansive middle earth landscape from atop the misty mountains but close to the snow. You then see the chained ring being lifted in front of the camera. Next a few shots from previous trailers (battling orcs, uruk hai) than a shot of what looked like an exhausted Borormir in the forest looking RFG saying “Do you really think we stand a chance?” Than some more shots than one that stands out in my memory is one of the Cave troll attacking legolas – looks like the same part shown on Quest for the Ring w/ the troll attacking using the chain, only this time it was a shot from behind Legolas and the troll almost looked as if it was climbing up to the balcony part (not sure) then the music quickended and the trailer ended with a blur of dozens of shots – none of which lasting more than a second long – One of the shots I saw had to have been Saruman’s lair, it was raining.