I’ve got a theory that if you are a complete nerd and ignore all fashions, eventually you fall so far behind that you find yourself ahead of the pack – voila, a trendsetter. (That was a ‘voila’ missing the little line over one of the vowels, BTW. Not a miss-spelled viola.) So is this true of being a Tolkien fan, or do we just come to this website to delude ourselves that we’ve got friends?
According to USA Today, Tolkien fandom is hip enough that the official LOTR site features in their Web Guide’s “Hot Sites” list today.
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Way to go, Michael 🙂
From: WonderBroad via IMDB
New Line Cinema and Fine Line Features, which remained distinct entities insulated from the Warner Bros. monolith after being acquired by Time Warner in the Turner Broadcasting merger, began downsizing Tuesday as part of an overall retrenchment following the takeover by America Online.
The online magazine Inside reported that New Line alone will be forced to cut 20 percent of its overhead, resulting in deep staff cuts. More than 100 employees of the unit are expected to be pink slipped, the magazine noted, with 18 layoffs coming in the New Line Home Video operation alone. The firings occur even as the New York Daily News was reporting that Mike De Luca, ousted last week as New Line Cinema studio chief, was being offered a $100-million deal to set up a production company at the same studio that fired him. “Who would walk away from that?” an unnamed source remarked in an interview with the newspaper. “It’s one of the most lucrative production deals ever, similar to what Peter Guber got when he left Sony or what Sid Sheinberg got from Universal.”
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The NZ Listener chimes in again with a report on the WB and the strong arm tactics the film production company is using against Harry Potter online fans. Two 15 year old webmasters have been sent legally threatening letters from Warners (yes, 15 year old). We can all be thankful that New Line runs a fan friendly production house.
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From: MSNBC.com
In this Manhattan movie house, at 10:30 a.m., you can tell who isn’t here to watch Kevin Costner handle the Cuban missile crisis in “Thirteen Days.” You, sir, with the tattoos and the FRODO LIVES! T shirt? Bet you came to see the trailer for “The Lord of the Rings”? Knew it. [More]
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Bad jokes heard after the LOTR Trailer….and they don’t pull any punches either, these are horrible. [More]
Thanks to Brian from Rockheads for the tip!
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Somebody wrote recently to complain that ‘all the reporters ever talk about in relation to LOTR is the money.’
Articles like the following, from digitrends.net make me sympathise with him. According to this we’re all ‘Consumers’ and things like ‘The Lord of the Rings’ are just ‘Properties.’ (I’m still not sure if that’s more or less insulting than referring to books and music etc as ‘Product’) .
“RealNetworks Helps Launch Tolkein Film [sic]
“New Line Cinema’s “Lord of the Rings” film trilogy is one of the most greatly anticipated film series of the new millennium. The studio is shooting all three installments concurrently and will release one a year through 2003. And with a little less than a year before the first film hits theaters, the marketing push is already underway. New Line and RealNetworks have formed a four-year partnership to jointly promote the movies. The two companies will create and promote the Lord of the Rings RealChannel as the exclusive online source for all material from the making of the three films. Through the month of January, the Lord of the Rings trailer will be available only via the RealPlayer and the Lord of the Rings RealChannel.
“The Lord of the Rings RealChannel will set a promotional benchmark that is unparalleled and marks the most significant entertainment Internet promotion to date,” says Gordon Paddison, senior vice president, Worldwide Marketing and Business Development, New Line Cinema. “In addition to establishing an ongoing relationship with the broad fan base for the Trilogy, this promotion with RealNetworks is in line with our strategic marketing objectives to expand our Internet marketing reach to include hundreds of millions of consumers who currently may not have any exposure to the property.”
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