Partial to a little Hobbit history? Sideshow/Weta Collectibles has just placed their Stone Troll Environment on pre-order. It is limited to 750 pieces worldwide and each is individually hand numbered. Check it out! [More]
Month: January 2003
Thanks to the various Tampa Bay Buccaneer (American) football fans who sent us the following link. Tampa Bay will be fighting to become ‘The Lords of the Ring’ this sunday at Superbowl XXXVII. Check out this highly creative flash animation at the official Tampa Bay website. [More] (PS – While I wasn’t cheering for any particular team, this my lure me to the Bucs side – Calisuri)
With the incredible success of The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, many members of The Lord of the Rings cast have sensibly used their appearances in Peter Jackson’s epic as a springboard for their movie careers. This year will see the actors and actresses we know and love so well as characters of Middle-earth appear in places such as Australia and Mexico as many of the LotR cast dabble in various genres, from action to drama to comedy. [More]
SYDNEY, Australia (CNN) — One of the world’s largest travel publications has picked clean, green but quiet New Zealand as its top hotspot for 2003. New Zealand came out trumps after a survey of 450 Lonely Planet staffers, who were buoyed by the country’s “breathtaking appearance” in the Lord of the Rings films, the group’s global travel editor, Don George, said. [More]
‘The Lord of the Rings” executive producer Mark Ordesky is lashing back at a claim that “The Two Towers” may be racially insensitive. [More]
Rudy sends in word from Italy that TTT has broken the Italian box office records held since 1994, it raked in 7.233.506 euro.