A real mess seems to be developing at the Uptown Theater in Washington D.C. A computer glitch and error by Fandango appears to have caused each movie in Trilogy Tuesday to be sold separately. Some folks bought tickets to film one, FOTR, assuming it would gain them entrance to the whole marathon. Some bought tickets to all three, just to be safe. People also bought tickets to ROTK or TTT, thinking there was a typo, but not to FOTR, because that had sold out! Confused? I know I am… Hear what our Ringer Spies in D.C. have to say [More]
Day: October 10, 2003
William writes: I can attest to the fact that most, if not almost all, of the tickets to the Plano, Texas (a suburb of Dallas) Trilogy Tuesday were purchased by scalpers online. People from across the country purchased 10 tickets apiece even though they may live a thousand miles away for the sheer purpose of selling them on E-bay for profit. [More]
UPDATE: The manager of the Plano Cinemark responds to fans’ concerns. [More]
When we sold out of tickets for our Premiere Party in less than 48 hours, the battle was on! We had to find a way to fit more people in without losing our fantastic hilltop vantagepoint at the Skyline Restaurant. . After frantic phonecalls and some mighty wrestling with budgets, we prevailed. Our gracious hosts at The Skyline have organised a superb summer pavilion which will be set up to accommodate more guests. If you plan to be in Wellington to celebrate the World Premiere of Return of the King, why not join fans from all over the world and party with us? [More]
We don’t honestly know how we feel about this, but here you have it: ‘Trilogy Tuesday’ tickets can be found on eBay. Well, we’re actually of mixed opinion about it. We understand that this might allow a few more of you to get your hands on tickets than have been able to… but on the other hand, maybe if people had only bought the amount of tickets they could personally use, there would have been more at the box office. Perhaps this could be a sign that MORE SCREENS should be added, don’t ya’ think?
BTW: If you live in Maryland, you’re still in luck — Tickets don’t go on sale until TOMORROW. (And some other theaters reportedly still have tickets as well) Visit our Trilogy Tuesday page for details.
Rebmik writes: Here’s an esoteric item for you, illustrating the pervasive influence of the LOTR movies. The new issue of Inside Photoshop (October 2003) includes an article based on the FOTR movie poster: “Text Effects: Combine Filters and Styles to Make Movie Poster Titles.” The author, Jim Whitcomb, analyzes the text in the movie poster title and discusses the Photoshop layer styles and filters needed to make similar gold chiseled text. Thanks to Kimber for the pics! [More]
Odile writes: I spoke with someone at the Film Society recently and I thought you guys might be interested to know that tickets for the Film Society at Lincoln Center event in January will go on sale at their box office on Monay, October 27. No idea how much they will cost or what the availability will be, though. I was told that Viggo Mortensen and Elijah Wood are confirmed to be among the actors present.