I wouldn’t usualy post these on the front page, but I REALLY want everyone to see these. Mad Magazine’s latest issue has some great ‘outtakes’ from TTT. Be sure to check out Gandalf and Theoden!
Month: February 2003
MJ12 writes: LotR has made it to the second round of nominations for the 3rd Annual Cinemarati Awards in 12 different categories: ‘Best Film,’ ‘Best Ensemble Cast,’ ‘Outstanding Design,’ and ‘Roundtable Film of the Year. For awards going to individuals or small groups of people Andy Serkis is nominated for ‘Best Supporting Actor,’ Peter Jackson for ‘Best Director,’ Frances Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair and Peter Jackson for ‘Best Adapted Screenplay,’ Andrew Lesnie for ‘Best Cinematography,” D. Michael Horton and Jabez Olseen for ‘Best Film Editing,’ and Howard Shore for ‘Best Musical Score,’ Other LotR nominations are the FotR Extended Edition DVD for ‘Best DVD Award’ and www.lordoftherings.net for ‘Best Official Film Site’ (*cough* -Xo).
Cully writes: Doug A. Anderson, author of The Annotated Hobbit, will be coming to Illinois Central College on February 18. He will begin his talk at 7:00 p.m. that night, and will give another at the same place at 11:00 a.m. on February 19. Also, on March 25, Professor Mike Foster along with others, will give a talk entitled The Two Towers: From Book to Movie at 7:00 p.m. at the Lakeview Center Auditorium in Peoria, IL.
Twentieth Century Fox is pushing the DVD envelope. The company has created “MovieBuzz,” a full-sized DVD that will be attached to 85 ounce bags of popcorn at Regal, Cinemark, Clearview,. Century, Hoyt’s and Famous Players screens in in North America. The DVD is a marketing tool, through and through, pushing five upcoming Fox features (Daredevil, Down With Love, X-Men 2, Master & Commander and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen).
Jody from NZ writes: I was looking through some of my old photos the other day and came across this picture. It was taken by a press photographer on location filming PJ’s movie, The Frighteners. [More]
The Oscar-nominations were announced just now and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers picked up a nomination for Best Film alongside ‘The Hours’, ‘Chicago’, ‘Gangs of New York’ and ‘The Pianist’. Unfortunately no Best Director-nomination for PJ or Best Supporting Actor for Andy Serkis this year.
In the ‘smaller’ categories The Two Towers picked up nominations for:
Film Editing
Sound
Sound Editing
and Visual Effects!
Check out the entire list of nominations here!
What do you think of the TTT noms, or the Oscars in general? Post your feedback here!