From Entertainment Weekly: Less than two months before The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’s Dec. 17 opening, even the most wary and sequel-burned of moviegoers assumes the third Tolkien installment will be a masterpiece. And why shouldn’t they? It was shot concurrently with the other two near-flawless installments, which were mostly faithful to the same written epic that King will be concluding. [More]
Day: November 1, 2003
From Entertainment Weekly: Less than two months before The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’s Dec. 17 opening, even the most wary and sequel-burned of moviegoers assumes the third Tolkien installment will be a masterpiece. And why shouldn’t they? It was shot concurrently with the other two near-flawless installments, which were mostly faithful to the same written epic that King will be concluding. But let’s consider this heresy: What if something goes horribly awry? Don’t forget wrong turns by other fanboy-fave series in round three: What if cutesy animals or tykes rush in to save our Middle-earth heroes, like Return of the Jedi’s Ewoks or Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’s lost children? Or Frodo shaves his head before luring Shelob into a molten-metal jacuzzi and committing suicide, ¨¤ la Alien3? And if Gandalf somehow ends up in the Old West like Back to the Future Part III, we¡¯ll tar and feather Peter Jackson. Sure, this is all unlikely, and King will probably rule, but it never hurts to lower your expectations. Nobody wants a relapse of The Matrix Reloaded heartbreak.
True-Hearted Easterling writes: The December 2003 issue of Barbie Bazaar magazine has more details on the Lord of the Rings giftset, as well as a picture (sorry – no scanner). Yes, the magazine really spelled it “Aragom.” [More]
Mary Ann writes: Verlyn Flieger, author of two books on Tolkien (Splintered Light, and A Question of Time) and a professor of English at the University of Maryland College Park will be giving a lecture series on Tolkien with the Smithsonian Resident Associates program in Washington, DC starting November 2003. [www.si.edu]
Celebrities ‘Shoot for The Stars’ with Sony Ericsson and Raise Money for Kids. Actors, Musicians, Sports, and Fashion Favorites Share “Slice of Life” Moments with Mobile Phone Camera; Pictures to be Auctioned at Charity Event. This fall, stars from music, sports, television, fashion and film worlds will join together to raise money for charity while snapping pictures of everyday life with their Sony Ericsson T610/T616 camera phone. Participating in Sony Ericsson’s “Shoot for the Stars” are celebrities such as Lenny Kravitz, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd and more. [More]
Ringers Lee and James have both reported that the Vancouver Famous Players Capitol 6 is inexplicably not selling tickets to TT until DECEMBER 16th, as per their business office. If anyone was able to purchase tickets to that theater over the web, those tickets should be verified with the theater.
UPDATE: Lee writes in with more information regarding Capitol 6 ticket sales. [More]