MrCere writes: “RINGERS: Lord of the Fans” will play its final time at the Slamdance Film Festival Thursday at 9 p.m.. This will be the final time for Utah audiences to demonstrate to movie studios that fans want to see this film in wide release. [More]
Month: January 2005
“RINGERS: Lord of the Fans” will play its final time at the Slamdance Film Festival Thursday at 9 p.m.. This will be the final time for Utah audiences to demonstrate to movie studios that fans want to see this film in wide release.
The Utah fans (and Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and Nevada among others) bear the responsibility of seeing this film Thursday so that Ringers all over the world will have the same chance.
Festivals like Slamdance, which runs concurrently with the more famous Sundance Film Festival, is a showcase for independent films where studios can gather and purchase select films and give them distribution so they can be seen by a wider audience.
Last year documentaries like “Super Size Me” and Metallica’s “Some Kind of Monster” played in Park City and Salt Lake City before finding a wider theatrical audience and both are now available on DVD. Studio cheifs and members of the media will be attending Thursday’s showing.
Through TheOneRing.net’s own Line Party database, a costume contest and line party is being planned for Thursday’s events. Many fans will be awarded RINGERS and TheOneRing.net t-shirts, hats and books. Tickets can be purchased before the 9 p.m. start time. For ticket details call 801-548-116. Do NOT call this number to express suport for the film as the box office workers have no influence about the distribution of the film and are busy with a job to do.
RINGERS: Lord of the Fans documents 50 years of fandom of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The Murray Theater, located just a few miles from downtown Salt Lake City (4945 So. State Street), changed its marquee Tuesday to reflect the high interest in the RINGERS film. The theater also hosts a number of other Slamdance selections and seats over 400 viewers in comfort.
The folks from the Coolidge Corner Theatre write: Before Peter Jackson tackled J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic story of Middle Earth, the television animation team of Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass (known for their classic stop-motion holiday specials like RUDOLPH, FROSTY and MAD MONSTER PARTY) took a stab at THE HOBBIT – and produced a cel-animated version that is a certified classic. Featuring the voices of Orson Bean, Otto Preminger, and John Huston as the first great version of Gandalf, the film also terrified many a 9-year-old’s psyche with a truly creepy lizard-like Gollum (voiced by the legendary comedian Brother Theodore). And let us not forget that final battle with the evil dragon Smaug. “I am strong, Strong, STRONG!” [More]
The Coolidge Corner Theatre presents THE COMPLETE LORD OF THE RINGS!
Fri-Sat Jan 28-29 @ midnite
Special FREE screening!
THE HOBBIT
Before Peter Jackson tackled J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic story of Middle Earth, the television animation team of Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass (known for their classic stop-motion holiday specials like RUDOLPH, FROSTY and MAD MONSTER PARTY) took a stab at THE HOBBIT – and produced a cel-animated version that is a certified classic. Featuring the voices of Orson Bean, Otto Preminger, and John Huston as the first great version of Gandalf, the film also terrified many a 9-year-old’s psyche with a truly creepy lizard-like Gollum (voiced by the legendary comedian Brother Theodore). And let us not forget that final battle with the evil dragon Smaug. “I am strong, Strong, STRONG!”
Special 11pm shows in February Peter Jackson’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS (showtime subject to change based on our other features, please check week before show to confirm)
Fri-Sat Feb 4-5 – THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Fri-Sat Feb 11-12 – THE TWO TOWERS
Fri-Sat Feb 18-19 – THE RETURN OF THE KING
All shows $6
Or buy special 3-pack of tickets, one for each film, for only $12! Includes first seating at all shows!
Oh sure, you know THE LORD OF THE RINGS films by now – they’re only the biggest phenomenon in popular film since, oh, STAR WARS (and they are better, too). And while you may have worn out those special edition DVDs (we have), there’s still nothing like seeing these stunning cinematic epics ON THE BIG SCREEN! Don’t miss another chance to live the riveting, exciting, and amazingly lush (thank you New Zealand! You are the perfect Middle Earth) adventures of Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, and Merry & Pipin, as they form an unbreakable fellowship with one mission: to destroy the one true ring before it falls into the hands of the uber-evil Dark Lord Sauron – or gets snatched away by the lovably treacherous Gollum, perhaps the best CGI character to yet grace the screen (take that Jar Jar!). Sure, it may be three epic films, but as Gimli says “It still only counts as one”, and this is one you must see once again on the GIANT screen! Come in costume for free popcorn and a chance to enter our prize drawing for collectable Tolkien stuff! (note: films are showing in original theatrical versions)
The Coolidge Corner Theatre is located at 290 Harvard St. in Brookline, Massachusetts. For more information about the theatre, visit coolidge.org
Stars including Paris Hilton, Jared Leto, LOTR pals Billy Boyd and Elijah Wood were forced to party in the streets of Deer Valley, Utah, on Sunday morning after a SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL party was shut down. Party organisers were forced to turn everyone out into the cold after a fire alarm sounded, leaving the celebrities dancing in the streets at 3am. [More]
A convention featuring the works of C. S. Lewis and the other inklings has been announced at Belmont University in Nashville, TN. [More]