Peter Jackson and ROTK are both nominated for a ‘Spacey Award’, an award show presented by the folks from Space: The Imagination Station (our version of the Sci-Fi Channel in Canada). Take a look and vote online! [More]
Month: March 2004
In 2001 Michael Pellerin embarked on a mission. As the producer of The Lord of the Rings DVD trilogy, Pellerin (C87) has spent the last three years shuttling between his home in Los Angeles and his office in New Zealand to film and compile interviews, previously unreleased footage and documentation from the LOTR series. [More]
The official New Line Shop (LOTRShop.com) has started taking pre-orders for the theatrical edition of The Return of the King! [More]
Its that time again! Pre-Orders have begun for The Return of the King theatrical edition DVD and VHS. Currently we have links to the official New Line Shop to pre-order this item. They say they will ship on May 25th.
This two-disc DVD is presented with the enhanced picture and sound quality and contains over two hours of added value material. The DVD set includes exciting behind-the-scenes specials, featurettes, theatrical trailers, TV spots, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy supertrailer, a preview of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings based video game, “The Battle for Middle-earth,” from Electronic Arts and a link to exclusive online content about the motion picture trilogy. Available in both Widescreen and Fullscreen Editions, the DVD Set features Dolby Digital EX 5.1 surround sound, stereo surround sound, English subtitles and closed captions, Spanish subtitles, in-depth programs such as, ” The Quest Fulfilled: A Director’s Vision”, ” A Filmmaker’s Journey: Making THE RETURN OF THE KING”, National Geographic Special – “The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King”, featurettes created for lordoftherings.net: “Aragorn’s Destiny”, “Minas Tirith: Capital of Gondor”, “The Battle of Pelennor Fields”, “Samwise the Brave”, “owyn: White Lady of Rohan”, “Digital Horse Doubles”, and multiple television spots.
Ringer Spy Gott pointed out something interesting: “Thought you might be interested in knowing that Glorfindel (as named so on a WETA-designed Decipher-card) is the Elf that appears right before Arwen’s banner at the coronation! Attached is a comparison pic.” [More]
Dave reminds us: Viggo Mortensen will be the guest on “Sen kväll med Luuk” (“Late evening with Luuk”) on TV4 here in Sweden tonight, Friday March 12th at 22.20. Host/comedian Kristian Luuk is apparently going to test Viggo on how much he knows about Scandinavia, to find out how “Americanized” he has become (it’s all in fun!). [More]