Ian sends us this great comic from NZ ‘Doctor Fun’, take a look! [More]
Day: April 7, 2002
Tomi writes: Just wanted to let you know that Riot-E (which has/had “exclusive rights to manufacture, sell and distribute accessories to mobile phones, in relation to the Lord of the Rings but also rights to wireless games and services concerning the same legend”) has filed for bankruptcy. Riot-E isn’t the first mobile company in Finland to go under.
Several folks have written in to report that they have spotted Sean Bean (Boromir) singing a couple of lines in the new Moby music video playing on MTV, “We’re All Made of Stars.” UPDATE: André was kind enough to send us a link to view the video! [More]
News from Random Pseudonym: “National Geographic’s ‘Beyond the Movie’ documentary is now available in the UK, priced £9.99 on video or DVD. I had no idea it was out until I stumbled across it in the DVD section of my local Woolworths on Friday. Just out of interest, it was number 12 in the DVD chart – not bad for a 52 minute documentary!”
Thanks to ‘ree for this link to UK paper The Sun, which has done the tricky maths necessary to convert movie earnings to ‘bums on seats’ as they say – allowing for inflation, different currencies and so on, it turns out that the alltime most popular movie is Gone with the Wind. LOTR is only sitting at 26th by this count. Still beats ‘Home Alone’ for which I’m grateful. [More]
Seems that the TTT trailer is popping up on TV here and there, though most people say there’s only bits of it shown. [More]