Don’t forget to come on down to the Silent Movie theater on Fairfax this Saturday [Dec 21st] for a day of Middle-earth Gaming brought to you by the folks at Black Label Games. Join the Gaming Havens crew and all the Tolkien Gamers for a day filled with news and artwork from the new book based titles from Black Label Games. Also, fans from the official TORn Line Party at the VISTA will receive a limited edition Faramir card just for showing up. Best of all, it’s totally Free! [More]
Day: December 19, 2002
Ankh writes: The opening of “the Two Towers” just set a new record in Denmark on the night of the 18th. With 80.000 tickets sold and a gross of 6.2 million Danish kroners it is the biggest opening ever. The first movie was seen by more than 1.3 million and it looks as if teh sequel is goring to just as well!
From lewrockwell.com: An article by John Yatt from the Guardian of December 2, 2002 attacks Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings with amazing hostility. He not only dismisses the book as “a fake, a forgery, a dodgy copy” but he also attacks it as harmful, “The Lord of the Rings is racist.” He ends with this judgement, “Strip away the archaic turns of phrase and you find a set of basic assumptions that are frankly unacceptable in 21st-century Britain.” [More]
Shelagh sends along some other TTT nominations, including Gollum and other TTT things at Critic’s Choice Awards. [More]
And the Critic’s Circle nomination for Peter Jackson as Best Director. [More]
Brandon Gray – BoxOfficeMojo.com
‘The Two Towers’ is estimated to have taken in a whopping $27-28 million at 3,622 theaters and an estimated 6,500 screens on Wednesday. That shatters the $18.2 million December opening day record that ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ posted last year at 3,359 venues and around 5,700 screens. It also stands as the sixth biggest opening day ever: Opening Day Chart. The estimate is based on the $21.8 million it generated at 2,526 theaters reporting to Nielsen EDI, the firm that tabulates over 80% of theaters’ box office revenue for the industry. The actual number will be posted at the site at around noon Pacific time in the daily section.
According to a Salt Lake City newspaper TORnados really know how to line party. Here is a report that chronicles the exclusive Salt Lake City TORnsibs only event! [More]