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]
Month: August 2002
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.
Brandon Gray
Boxofficemojo.com
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]
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.
Asarina sends word of new American Library Association posters, this time featuring the Ringwraiths. [More]
Last year, the American Library Association used The Lord of the Rings for their teen read week with the theme “Make Reading a Hobbit” and nice posters and bookmarks with both Frodo and Arwen holding books and actually reading. A short time later, a new set comes out to include Gandalf, who was holding an absolutely huge volume and encouraging those kids to pick up a book and read. But this summer it looks as though ALA has changed tactics with a new poster featuring the nine Ring Wraiths fleeing from the flood-waters called up by Arwen at the Ford. Wowsers! Are they trying to tell us that if we don’t read, the Ring Wraiths will get us? Maybe insinuating that the Ring Wraiths are all wet for not spending quality time at their local library? You decide– go to ALA then go to the fantasy/science fiction collection.
Actually, many local public libraries carry videos and DVDs now, right along with the print materials they’ve always carried. So this poster isn’t inappropriate but struck me as funny. It’s also intersting that Darth Vadar is the only other ‘evil’ charactor to earn a poster at ALA at this time.” Thanks to Asarina for that.
[Well, I can only wonder what would happen if we encouraged teenagers to think that reading was rebellious and bad….Tehanu]