Paladin writes: The December issue of New Idea magazine has this article on Karl Urban (Eomer). [More]
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With a mere six days to go until The Return of the King hits cinemas around the country, Odeon cinemas reports that the film has already passed the £1million mark in advance ticket sales. This gives The Return of the King the biggest advance sales this year – and let’s not forget, there are still six days to go. That’s 144 hours, or 8640 minutes. Not that anyone here is counting. [More]
TORN broke the internet yesterday. Sales for ‘The Return of the One Party’ went on sale at exactly noon PST time yesterday and we sold out in about 15 minutes. This, needless to say, was unexpected. Last year it took us 2 weeks to sell out. We are currently swamped with processing orders. [More]
The last two telecasts of the Academy Awards have featured, if fans looked closely at Peter Jackson’s jacket lapel, two “good luck” pins from TheOneRing.net made by the hand of Paul Badali. Badali is a long-time fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s books and has always been fascinated with the Middle-earth jewelry. [More]
And the raves just keep on coming! Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gives ROTK a grade of “A,” the magazine’s highest possible rating. You must be a magazine subscriber to read the online review; the print copy should hit newsstands in a day or two. [More]
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) – If Ian McKellen has his way, he will be reprising his role of Magneto in the third “X-Men” film. After recently seeing “X2: X-Men United” for the first time — “much more recently than I should confess” — he tells Zap2it.com, “I immediately called up Bryan Singer and said, ‘What can I do to make sure I’m in the third film. And are you going to direct it?” [More]