When auditions for the Lord of the Rings took place, many of the actors were told filming the trilogy would take up about nine months of their time. Not quite true – it was, as Arwen actress Liv Tyler has testified, more like four years. But few are complaining. Taking part in Jackson’s trilogy has transformed careers. [More]
Day: December 11, 2003
GULNAZ BAZ writes: Friday December 12th ‘This Morning’ will be showing exclusives from the ROTK premiere tonight. The programme starts at 10.30am on ITV1.
Jim Rygiel, visual effects supervisor on the upcoming third Lord of the Rings film, The Return of the King, told SCI FI Wire that his team used computer animation to create one of the film’s most fearsome creatures. !!!SPOILERS!!! [More]
Paladin writes: The December issue of New Idea magazine has this article on Karl Urban (Eomer). [More]
With a mere six days to go until The Return of the King hits cinemas around the country, Odeon cinemas reports that the film has already passed the £1million mark in advance ticket sales. This gives The Return of the King the biggest advance sales this year – and let’s not forget, there are still six days to go. That’s 144 hours, or 8640 minutes. Not that anyone here is counting. [More]
TORN broke the internet yesterday. Sales for ‘The Return of the One Party’ went on sale at exactly noon PST time yesterday and we sold out in about 15 minutes. This, needless to say, was unexpected. Last year it took us 2 weeks to sell out. We are currently swamped with processing orders. [More]