Why bother coming up with a new movie when you can just trot out another episode of an old one? 2002 is the year of the sequel, says Andy Milburn [More]
Month: May 2002
Ringer Spy Criz sends us info on a TTT trailer in theatres this month, and a teeny bit of info on the SECOND TTT Trailer! [More]
From: Criz
The Houghton Mifflin stand at the NYC Book Expo was playing the preview trailer of TTT on their 41″ plasma screen over and over again (watched it about 5 times during the weekend), and they also had two flyers on their marketing campaign and how it tied the book releases and the film trailers and releases ending with TTT released in December of 2002.
What I first saw that was interesting was they had March 2002 preview trailer attached, and then below they had the line:
May 2002 – The Two Towers teaser trailer released in cinemas
I will try and get some scans to you tomorrow if you haven’t already been sent them…BUT Later on I can’t remember a specific month – (end of summer, beginning of fall), there is a SECOND teaser trailer being released. As I said, I will try and get appropriate scans for you.
Well here’s another great ‘poll’ to swamp, on June 6 MTV is handing out their MTV 2002 Movie Awards and naturally LOTR:FOTR is nominated. Now the great thing is we can vote for the movie we would like to win, and we can vote all we want! So if you have a few minutes spare, head over to MTV.com and vote for LOTR:FOTR! It’ll only take about five minutes of your time so we can all vote 15 times an hour, 360 times a day and, with June 6 being 30 days away we should be able to get a good head start! [Vote Now!]
There’s a chance that the Hobbit Drinking Song may be included in the longer DVD, according to The Speaking Clock. [More]
News from the Speaking Clock, who writes: “In the forum at Billy Boyd’s website BillyBoyd.net “Nimrodel” has left details of a drinking song that didn’t make it to the final cut of FOTR. She says that the four hobbits sang it with Peter Jackson during an interview at Cannes last year. If, as has been promised, the Green Dragon scene is put back into the extended DVD version, maybe we’ll get to see it as well as hear it.”
For those of you who missed our Cannes news coverage last year, there’s an audio file here Here’s the words – notice the song cleverly blends TWO of Tolkien’s originals, Pippin’s Bath Song that he sings at Crickhollow, and one that the hobbits sing on their walk across the Shire.
“Hey! Ho! To the bottle I go
To heal my heart and drown my woe.
Rain may fall and wind may blow,
But there still be many miles to go!
Sweet is the sound of falling rain
and the stream that leaps from hill to plain
better than rain or rippling brook
is a mug of beer inside the Took.”