HOBBIT FORMING: The hottest movie here yesterday drew a capacity crowd that needed a secret location and two sets of I.D. to get in – and all we saw was 25 minutes of it. But when you’re talking The Lord Of The Rings, the biggest thing since Star Wars, it’s to be expected. [More]
Category: Movie Fellowship of the Ring
`Rings’ preview is the Lord of the Cannes Film Festival
by Stephen Schaefer
The scene was a theater not far from the Grand Palais at the Cannes Film Festival, but the occasion was a trip to Middle Earth.
New Line Pictures yesterday gave a select group of international entertainment journalists a 24-minute preview of its epic “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. [More]
From: BBC News
Cannes preview for Rings
A select band of film industry members and journalists have been given a 20-minute preview of the first Lord of the Rings movie at a chateau outside Cannes. [More]
Ringer Spy Orgship sends along word what the french television site Canal + will be showing some footage from CANNES (not LOTR footage, just from out and about in Cannes) on their show, as well as online! Check out the link, and look for that to happen later this evening. [More]
We’ve also got word of a possible live chat on the site! Peter Jackson involved! More to come!
VENDREDI 11 MAI A 17:02
Cannes, May 10, 2001, 5.00 pm: The Olympia Theater screening room is almost full with journalists from all over the world. Before Sunday’s big party, the huge worldwide publicity campaign is just starting here. [More]
The Daily Telegraph (via lotr.nl) has a great article covering CANNES, with some really great photos!!