Brandon Gray
http://www.boxofficemojo.com

“The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring” relinquished the top spot for the first time after a 23-day reign as the new MTV comedy “Orange County” surprisingly bowed at No. 1 on Friday with an estimated $5.39 million from 2,317 theaters. [More]

Brandon Gray
http://www.boxofficemojo.com

“The Lord of the Rings” relinquished the top spot for the first time after a 23-day reign as the new MTV comedy “Orange County” surprisingly bowed at No. 1 on Friday with an estimated $5.39 million from 2,317 theaters. “Rings” came in third place with an estimated $4.33 million from 3,381, edged out by the Russell Crowe drama “A Beautiful Mind” with $4.35 million from 2,220.

However, “Rings” still has a shot at claiming the top spot for the weekend as realistically these numbers indicate that the weekend is too close to call. “Orange” is tracking at $15 million, while “Mind” is pointing to around $14.5 million. “Rings” is in the same $14-15 million range.

“Rings” domestic total stands at $216.4 million in 24 days.

Overseas, “Rings” reached $253 million as of Thursday, 1/10. The domestic take was $212.1 million as of the date for a worldwide total of $465.1 million, ranking No. 3 among movies released in 2001 and No. 28 on the all time list. [More]

I finally managed to get some scans of the LOTR articles from the February issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly and the Official Xbox Magazine. They have all kinds of new info on the upcoming LOTR video games, including never before seen screen shots and concept art. [More]

I finally managed to get some scans of the LOTR articles from the February issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly and the Official Xbox Magazine. They have all kinds of new info on the upcoming LOTR video games, including never before seen screen shots and concept art.

EGM: [Page 1] [Page 2]

OXM: [Page 1] [Page 2] [Page 3] [Page 4] [Page 5] [Page 6]

SK writes: For some reason, the makers of Dungeons and Dragons (Wizards of the Coast) have decided to give a (primer? history? movie review?) of the LOTR movie on their website. Inexplicably though, they’ve decided to break it up into 3 parts to be released weekly! [More]

Kevin writes: Today in Scotland I got a free videotape that accompanied the Daily Mirror. About 10 and half minutes into it there is a clip where two Weta technicians are pointing at a screen with what looks like an early rendering of (spoiler) Gandalf falling into Khazad Dum. It was a shot from the side so it wasn’t from FotR.