Todd Eldredge, a US figure skater, placed 6th in the Men’s Figure Skating competition at the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics. What makes this newsworthy is the fact that Todd chose the soundtrack from Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring as the music for his 4 1/2 minute skate. I have to admit, I watched it, and besides a bad fall at the very beginning, Todd nailed the rest of the skate. Congrats to Todd for his accomplishment and for his quality choice in music! [More]
Month: February 2002
arien sends this in: Don’t miss the opportunity to meet director, writer and producer Peter Jackson; writer and producer Fran Walsh; co-writer Philippa Boyens and actor Sean Astin as they discuss the popular and critical hit film and sign J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic trilogy, The Lord of the Ring. Brentano’s, Century City Mall, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. Monday, February 18th at 2pm.
BW writes: Just to say that Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, has made another increase on its daily box office. Its Monday total was: $295,000(#11) and was on a steady decrease. Seems as though Academy award results have made some impact as Tuesday’s total was: $372,000(#8), thats an increase of 26.1%. Looks like it could also stay in the top 10 for the weekend total.
Shelia writes: There is an Academy Awards Survey over at the Suntimes website. We all need to get out there and vote for Lord of the Rings and the associated awards. Right now, FoTR isn’t doing too well. We need to show Ebert and Roeper what we think of their choices. [More]
Trae writes: Read the “Lord, Almighty” nypost.com article. Very interesting. I’m a stats guy, so here are a few more points that bode well for LOTR: FOTR’s chances of winning best picture. [More]
From Trae:
Read the “Lord, Almighty” NYpost.com article. Very interesting. I’m a stats guy, so here are a few more points that bode well for LOTR: FOTR’s chances of winning best picture.
1. The movie receiving the most nominations has won best picture for the past 9 years.
2. In the past 20 years (I was too lazy to go back farther), the movie receiving the most nominations won best picture 90% of the time.
[Caveat: the two exceptions are 1981 and 1991…so, 2001?]
3. In the past 20 years, when only one of the movies up for best picture has double digit nominations, it wins 87.5% of the time.
4. In the past 20 years, when a movie has 3+ nominations more than its nearest competitor (it’s happened 6 times), it wins 100% of the time.