In Box Office news, Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers has finally passed the US mark set by its predecessor Fellowship of the Ring.
In the US all-time moneylists, Towers just leapfrogged Fellowship to nab 10th spot and push toward Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in 9th position. Towers now has amassed a US$315 million box office in just 44 days compared to the US$313 million that Fellowship took last year.
- 10 Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers NL $315,800,000 2002
- 11 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring NL $313,364,114 2001
Source: Box Office Mojo
Outside the US, Towers is yet to overhaul Fellowship. But it only US$120 million in arrears. Box Office mojo reports that as at 31/1, Towers had grossed an enormous US$423.1 million, with the Japanese release still due to occur. Towers will release in Japan on February 22.
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A great resource online for people wanting to learn or teach LOTR. If the link’s playing up weirdly, go to www.collinseducation.com and look round their ‘Free Downloads. [More]
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Miggie writes, “Today I found a LoTR Teacher’s Guide at collinseducation.com, that, according to the site, is “full of great ideas for KS3 English with suggestions for reading, comprehension, discussion and essay questions, as well as vocabulary work. Also biographical information on J.R.R. Tolkien and extracts from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien on Middle Earth and its residents, providing lots of motivating material to work with in the classroom.”
It’s a 1.45MB download and a great resource for J.R.R. Tolkien’s fans who also happen to be teachers. But also great for finding questions if you feel inclined to create a home-made LoTR Trivial Pursuit. 😉 Go here and search on their ‘Free Downloads’ page.
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A spy report from Ithil Draug discusses a version of Arwen’s character that seems to have been filmed then discarded. [More]
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We used to get a lot of these are the kind of spy reports that really get the rumour mill going. It’s always fun to speculate on what might have been…..Bear in mind that these films are made with dozens of possibilities that are filmed, developed and discarded before the final cut. We KNOW Arwen started out at Helm’s Deep….but didn’t stay in the final theatrical cut. But…will she reappear in the DVD? I don’t think so myself – it seems like an idea that the filmmakers toyed with and then decided, once they saw the rushes and did some of the first edits, that it really didn’t work with the direction they wanted to take the characters. However, here’s some evidence about some of the versions of Arwen’s role that they played with in the beginning.
Ithil Draug wrote in: “One of my friend’s cousins actually helped work on Lord of the Rings and when I saw the report on the possibility of Arwen at Helm’s Deep, I told him about this and told him to ask his cousin. About a week later he told me that his cousin said Arwen was indeed at the Battle of Hornburg. Arwen was supposed to have run away with Asfaloth from the Elves going to the Havens and joined the Rohirrim riders with Gandalf. He further went on to report that New Line was going to have a scene with her riding down the hill and talk[ing] to Aragorn saying something about her “choice” or “I am with you.” New Line [or Peter Jackson, perhaps – Tehanu] cut this scene out and decided to put her scene in the background in order to make it look like many riders charging down the hill.
She may be clearly visible or say the lines she says in the special edition DVD or she may have a large role to play in RotK(the battle and the mortality stuff) but don’t quote me on this. My friend’s cousin is a reliable source but my friend says he isn’t positive about her appearing in the special edidtion or in battle scenes in RotK but at one time Arwen did have some lines and is at Helm’s Deep so my friend says.”
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Sean Bean was very recently on the Jonathan Ross radio programme on UK’s BBC2 and mentioned that his next project may be Troy in the part of the Greek hero Odysseus. Troy already has Orlando Bloom cast in the role of Paris. Thanks to Nona for the heads up. [More]
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