Our good friend Brandon Gray from BoxOfficeMojo.com sends us this news today: ROTK’s hit $767.3 million worldwide this weekend, eclipsing ‘The Matrix Reloaded’s $738 million to become the 14th highest grossing movie of all time. [More]
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Rodnik Vodka, Nimbus Pictures and TheOneRing.net are set to host a private party at the Sundance Film Festival saluting the efforts of all those involved in bringing LOTR to the big screen. If there are any cast or crew member going up to sundance please contact TORN asap for details. Check back next week for a report on the highlights (including Rodnik’s special “Mordor Martini”) and pictures from the event!
Andy Serkis Book Tour: NYC
Diana W writes: I went to the event. I arrived at Barnes & Noble at 2:30pm and I waited until 7:00. At first, there were not that many people except for more enthusiastic LOTR fans. When he came, the crowd was whooping and cheering. [More]
Movie critic Roger Ebert addesses Serkis’ Oscar chances in his “Movie Answer Man” article at suntimes.com [More]
The Lord of the Rings trilogy has reached its climax by setting a new record for having the longest closing credits in Hollywood history.
The Return of the King wraps up with an impressive nine and a half minutes of credits, listing hundreds of names. [More]
Most casual moviegoers, particularly outside of the UK, were probably only vaguely aware of Ian McKellen before he scored a pop cult one-two punch second only to Hugo Weaving’s (Agent Smith in The Matrix and Elrond the prognosticating Elf in LOTR). Before his roles as Magneto in X-Men and X2, and of course, as Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, they might have heard of his singular 1995 Richard III, which he adapted, executive produced and starred in; and probably of his Oscar-nominated performance as James Whale in Gods and Monsters (1998). [More]