Shane Hegarty writes: In Wellington on Monday, the première of The Return of the King, the final instalment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was a quiet affair. Just the cast and crew, 100,000 fans, a 470 metre-long red carpet, an Air New Zealand jumbo jet flying low over Wellington harbour, its fuselage painted with movie scenes and daubed with its current slogan “Airline to Middle-earth”, and a tickertape parade for director and local hero Peter Jackson. [More]
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Gulnaz writes: This Sunday (December 7) the UK Newspaper known as “The Mail On Sunday” are doing a ROTK special to celebrate the Movie release, They’ll be giving a Free CD with ROTK Footage such as trailers, pictures, that sort of thing, with a magazine.
LA Premiere post-movie-party
WeeTanya writes: I have pictures from the LA premiere pre- and post-movie parties. They are from TORN staffer Garfeimao, TORN ringer Primmy & TORN ringer Judy. [More]
Ringer Lee sends us his review of the ROTK from a 27 year fan of the literature. While it is generally negative, please note, what is discussed will leave no surprises. So mucho spoilers. MAJOR SPOILERS [More]
frodosam sends along this Oscar ‘For Your Consideration’ ad for Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens’ work for ‘Best Adapted screenplay’. The quote an image they use is both touching and full of !!!SPOILERS!!! [More]
Tom “The Coolest Movie Theater Owner in America” Kiefaber writes from Baltimore: We will be doing drawings each evening starting this Friday 12/5 through Thursday 12/11, before each evening’s 7:30pm show of the special edition of “The Fellowship of the Ring” for two tickets to “Trilogy Tuesday”. [More]