Take a look at this link to the ‘All Time Box Office’, LOTR is now #20. Just above Toy Story 2′. [More]
Month: January 2002
David writes: The largest TV company here in Sweden were airing a commersial about some kind of a olympic games documentary. It was named something like “The Olympic Rings” refering to the olympic symbol. [More]
From: David
It was only a few minutes ago that I heard my sister scream for me to turn on the TV. Channel 2 of SVT, the largest TV company here in Sweden were airing a commersial about some kind of a olympic games documentary. It was named something like “The Olympic Rings” refering to the olympic symbol.
The thing that made me jump up and scream was what they used to play on the rings theme in the commersial. They used the LoTR trailer.
What I saw was the full third trailer played by Swedish actors dressed up as athletes. Instead of nazgûls there were hockey players from Finland, instead of the ring there were the five olympic rings and so on. It was hilarious! The whole show ended with “Spelen kan börja” (May the games begin) and someone dressed as Gandalf smashing his staff to the ground!
siverjam sends this in from Roger Friedman with Fox News: The big surprises of the night: that Lord of the Rings was completely shut out of the winning. This movie was the odds-on favorite, and certainly a perfect Golden Globe winner if ever there was one. But a lot of people I spoke to said that the movie’s made “too much money” – how do you like that! – and that the Hollywood Foreign Press (which has suddenly become the bastion of respectability after years of being loony) wanted something more artistic. Thus, their choice of A Beautiful Mind.
CBS is re-broadcasting the December 11th ‘David Letterman’ show with Elijah Wood (Frodo) as a special guest. The re-broadcast will air on Friday, January 25th.
A number of people – including LOTR film languages expert David Salo – wrote in to warn us that the books about Tolkien’s languages that we recommneded are out of date and contain some errors. [More]