We are pleased to give you some more information about our upcoming Oscar celebration: The Return of the One Party. Follow the link for details! [More]
Day: December 3, 2003
Tiriel writes: I just had a mail from my local UCI cinema after I mailed about possible midnight showing, that also goes on to suggest that the classification could still be changed, in UK at least. Entire mail copied below. Have there been any other, similar reports?
We now have tickets on sale from Wed 17th Dec only to Thurs
1st Jan 2004 there is no midnight show after the directors chair on Tuesday 16th Dec. I think there was a problem with the licence.
Details are as follows:
Screen 5 371 seats
Film Times 10.30am, 14.45, 19.00
Screen 6 296 seats
Film Times 11.30am, 15.45, 20.00
The First show on Boxing Day and New Years Day is after 12.00pm
The last show on Christmas Eve and New Years Eve will be 16.45.
There will be 5 screens showing this film but we only have the times for two screens at the moment the others will be advised shortly. The other screens will be screen 4 and screen 8.
At the moment the film is classified as a 12A but we receive confirmation on Thurs as it could change to 15 cert.
Tickets are available from CBO, Internet and our box office but only the times shown above at the moment.
The folks from bruce-hopkins.com write: I just added his Wellington premiere photos to his site. He sent along photos from the airport tarmac of the cast and other photos showing fans and others. He wrote the captions for each photo. [More]
Elisa Lipsky-Karasz writes: I hear that New Line Cinema is out for blood over Monday’s catastrophic Washington screening of its Christmas blockbuster “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.” I’m told that the first full-dress battle scene, more than a hour into the 3-hour, 17-minute epic, was run upside-down for some 30 critics at the Loews Georgetown. “At first I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a totally cool camera angle, from the perspective of someone who was felled in the battle,” one witness told me yesterday. Baltimore Sun movie critic Michael Sragow said: “It was the first massing of forces, and you got these elephant creatures coming on screen upside down. Obviously, it was about the worst way to see a movie.” Worse still, the influential audience had to wait 45 minutes while the projectionist re-threaded the film, only to restart it after a huge gap in the action. In due course, an upside-down Frodo appeared, and the screening was halted again for another 45 minutes. “Obviously we’re upset as anyone would be, and we’re in discussions with Loews,” a chagrined New Line spokeswoman told me. “We want to know if Gollum was in the projection booth.”
Kristina: I just wanted to give you guys a little report on what my sister’s and I saw on the red carpet at the DVD Awards last night. Apparantly Billy, Dominic, John Rhyes, and Andy Serkis were supposed to be there but, only Dominic, John, and Andy showed. In any case, we met all three and were able to get our Fellowship Visual Companion autographed (It was already autographed by Viggo, Peter J, Fran Walsh, Philippa, Sean Astin, and Sir Ian McKellen). They were all verious gracious and ever willing to interact with their fans. I even got a kiss from John. He was very sweet. [More]
Kristina: I just wanted to give you guys a little report on what my sister’s and I saw on the red carpet at the DVD Awards last night. Apparantly Billy, Dominic, John Rhyes, and Andy Serkis were supposed to be there but, only Dominic, John, and Andy showed. In any case, we met all three and were able to get our Fellowship Visual Companion autographed (It was already autographed by Viggo, Peter J, Fran Walsh, Philippa, Sean Astin, and Sir Ian McKellen). They were all verious gracious and ever willing to interact with their fans. I even got a kiss from John. He was very sweet.
There is one thing that we witnessed that I just had to let you guys in on: When Dom arrived he was really cool. He signed our Visual Companion and took some pictures with us before we were asked to step aside. We obediently did so and stepped around to the side of the velvet ropes were other Rings fans were standing. At that point we saw Dom talking on his cell beside a doorway (I believe it was a service entryway).
Well, as soon as he was done with his conversation he, he headed towards the red carpet. Then out of no were, a extremely large body guard stepped in front of him and refused to let him pass. We think that the man mistook him for your average joe just trying to get into the theatre and did not know who he was. We all stood back watching silently until we saw the man physically push Dom back towards us.
At that point I think everyone standing there knew what was going on because all of us who were standing there immediately became very angry and started screaming at the body guard. We were yelling things like “Do you know who that is!?” “That is Dominic Monaghan!” along with other phrases that I can not repeat. We all felt bad because we could see that Dom was very embarrased. Also we did not agree with how the man got rough with Dom. Immediately, however, the guy realized his mistake and eased off. We could see the look of foolishness on his face… it was great.
Afterwards Dom came over to us and signed more stuff for the people and stood there for a while with my sister’s and I and conversed with us. We took more pictures with him, thanked him and then watched him take his walk down the red carpet. He was just so cool. They were all very cool. I don’t think anyone loves there fans as much as the cast of the Lord of the Rings. They were the only celebrities that immediately came over to interact with us when they arrived. Thanks Dom, Andy, and John!