Brandon Gray writes: ‘Return of the King’ enjoyed a modest post-Oscar bump, increasing 40% over the weekend to $3.0 million after adding 791 theaters. Generally speaking, movies that everyone already saw and that were expected to win Best Picture don’t get much of a boost after the Oscars (‘Titanic,’ for instance, went down). [More]
Month: March 2004
Charlie writes: The London Film And Comic Con was a FANTASTIC weekend! The main highlight being Andy Serkis doing the auction as Gollum/Smegol, to see him sing ‘Your the one that I want’ as Gollum is something I am never gonna forget. [More]
Accoring to Elanor1013: Movie Magic magazine has a section called “Saying So Long to the Lord of the Rings” featuring quotes and some pictures, including Elijah, Billy, Dom, and others. Later in the mag, they also have a book recommendation and quote from Elijah where he recommends “The Giver” by Lois Lowry in a section called “If you like Harry [Potter] You’ll Also Like” or something to that effect. Scans anyone? Send them along!
Lord Of The Rings star Billy Boyd put off hunting for a flat in Glasgow last night to help promote the city’s new slogan. Along with STV newsreader Sarah Heaney, who has been helping him find a new home, Billy was one of the celebrities who launched the Glasgow: Scotland With Style campaign at a party in the Clyde Auditorium. [More]
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Ringer Spy Ataahua writes: The sight of Peter Jackson accepting his Academy Awards while looking scruffy was a particularly warming one for Helen Brown, a New Zealand columnist in Australia. (Translation help: ‘jandals’ are the same casual footwear that some inhabitants of some country somewhere on the globe seem to call ‘flip flops’, and it aint the Australians, as a lot op people have pointed out today – leo) [More]
Elijah Wood Has Hard Time Saying Good-bye to ‘Rings’ Cast, Yet Again. “We became so close making the three movies, we’re like a family. I just don’t know how I’ll handle saying good-bye,” an extremely weepy Elijah Wood told a gaggle of reporters at a recent Oscar party. [More]
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