Welcome to Tolkien’s Middle-earth! We’ve got a fantastic schedule of events lined up this year and hope you’ll drop by to visit. We are welcoming back the founders of TheOneRing.net and our Elvish lingustics experts, as well as introducing many new sessions, including one about the new ballet based upon the story of Beren and Luthien. We’ll be posting more information on the specific sessions as soon as possible. Up-to-date schedule information for this programming track can be found [here].
To borrow a term from TheOneRing.net, this track is forged by fans for fans. We’d not be able to do it without you! If you have suggestions for a panel topic or programming event that you’d like to see at the track, or would like to participate in one of the panels, we want to hear from you. Just e-mail Jincey with your thoughts.
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Fans who are trying to avoid spoilers have some difficult questions to ask themselves: Can I resist knowing the running time for The Two Towers and in particular the battle at Helm’s Deep? Can I resist knowing to what extent the Ents appear The Two Towers and in what capacity? If you can, ignore this story. For those of that are only human, get ready for some news that’ll put a smile on your face. !!!SPOILERS!!! [More]
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Thanks to a heads up for Ringer Spy ‘A Fan’ we got news today that The Two Towers current cut of the film is 3 hours and 14 minutes. Here’s more juicy tidbits:
The current cut of THE TWO TOWERS has it at 3:14. The battle of Helm’s Deep is 50 minutes, give or take.
I can say this…there IS an Ent battle filmed. I’m not sure if it’s for the film or for some extended version down the road, but we do see the Ents march on Isengard.
Woo hoo! Ents marching on Isengard…I can’t wait! We have not yet confirmed the details of this story, but as soon as we get word, we’ll let you know.
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Brandon Gray
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The rentals stats for LOTR’s first week on home video are in. People may have been so busy buying LOTR, that it didn’t break any rentals records. The epic fantasy minted $6.02 million in DVD rentals and $6.79 million in VHS rentals top both charts for the week ending August 11. By comparison, Harry Potter did $5.34 million on DVD and $7.41 million on VHS in its first week. [More]
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Brandon Gray
Boxofficemojo.com
The rentals stats for LOTR’s first week on home video are in: DVD Rentals and VHS Rentals.
People may have been so busy buying LOTR, that it didn’t break any rentals records. The epic fantasy minted $6.02 million in DVD rentals and $6.79 million in VHS rentals top both charts for the week ending August 11. By comparison, Harry Potter did $5.34 million on DVD and $7.41 million on VHS in its first week. So LOTR did top Potter in combined rentals, $12.81 million to $12.75 million.
Full rentals charts will be posted later today, including how many times LOTR was rented, not just the money.
Still no word on actual sales, but given the muted rentals numbers, they likely rivaled Harry Potter’s if not surpassed it. Potter’s first week came to 9.86 million in combined DVD and VHS sales, and it has gone on to sell nearly 7 million copies on DVD. Shrek is still the top DVD seller of all time at over 8 million.
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Asarina sends word of new American Library Association posters, this time featuring the Ringwraiths. [More]
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