Brandon Gray
Boxofficemojo.com
With the five new wide releases for the weekend (“A Walk to Remember,” “The Mothman Prophecies,” “The Count of Monte Cristo,” “I Am Sam” and “Kung Pow”) posting solid numbers on Friday and three strong holdovers (“Black Hawk Down,” “A Beautiful Mind” and “Snow Dogs”), “The Lord of the Rings” was pushed down to 9th place, according to estimates. The epic adventure shed 563 theaters for a total of 2,703 and pulled in an estimated $1.98 million.
“Rings” gross points to a sixth weekend of around $8 million, which will likely put it at 8th place for the weekend (ahead of “Kung Pow” and possibly “I Am Sam”).
After 38 days, “Rings” has earned $252.63 million to rank No. 17 on the all time list and No. 90 on the inflation-adjusted chart.
Weekend studio estimates will be issued Sunday, followed by the actual weekend tallies on Monday evening. [More]
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Ringer Spy Lee sends along these scans from the latest issue of ‘Starlog Magazine’.
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Jamii sends a few pictures from Viggo Mortensen’s (Aragorn) truly amazing photo collection. Viggo has a wonderful vision and a great eye! This are really wonderful.
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Ringer Fans can thank Speaking Clock for this abundance of UK LOTR News:
– Maybe this will be the chance for UK Ringers to snap up a home-grown One Ring! The British shopping channel QVC is having a one hour Lord of the Rings Showcase at 23:00 on Monday 4th February, featuring LOTR merchandise.
– The London Evening Standard British Film Awards 2002 will be shown live at 23:30 on Monday 4th February on ITV Carlton and LWT. LOTR is a nominee but I haven’t been able to find out in which categories.
– The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) nominations will be announced on 28th January – http://www.bafta.org. The final awards will be announced on 24th February.
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DarSpi writes:
YPSILANTI – Critics have generally praised and audiences flocked to The Fellowship of the Ring, Peter Jackson’s first installment of three films intended to bring J. R. R. Tolkien’s master fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, to the silver screen. But does Jackson’s recreation of mythic Middle Earth, down to the elves, orcs, wizards, warriors and hobbits, pass muster for tried-and-true Tolkien fans?
That’s the question that will be examined by a cadre of these fans 7 p.m. on Feb. 7 at Ave Maria College, where a mock trial of Peter Jackson will be staged and students at the Catholic liberal arts college will render verdict.
“This will be very tongue-in-cheek, and we plan to play up very big,” said AMC writer-in-residence and Tolkien biographer Joseph Pearce, one of the two Tolkien experts to present evidence at the “Trial of Peter Jackson for the desecration of The Lord of the Rings.” Pearce is the author of Tolkien: Man and Myth, and most recently, Tolkien a Celebration: Collected Writing on a Literary Legacy.
Admission will be free to the event, which will be held in the college auditorium in the academic building at 302 West Forest Avenue in Ypsilanti. The mock trial is expected to last about one and a half hours, including time allotted for the audience to participate in a cross examination of the Tolkien experts.
While Pearce serves as defense attorney, literature professor Henry Russell, Ph.D., will serve as prosecutor and Ave Maria Radio talk show host Al Kresta will moderate the mock trial as judge and pronounce sentence if a verdict is rendered for the prosecution.
Both professors spoke to packed theaters at Quality 16 and Showcase during the movie’s opening week, presenting background on the literary importance of the trilogy authored by the late John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, professor of Anglo-Saxon language and literature at Oxford University in England. The Lord of the Rings trilogy has been popular since it was published in the early 1950s and has been named “the book of the century” in several reader polls.
Russell has already laid down the gauntlet, remarking that Jackson’s rendition of Tolkien, “has all the depth and intellect of a video game.” Pearce declined to make a statement, because, he said, “I’m waiting until the trial to present my evidence.”
Because Tolkien and his fantasy world have popular appeal in the local community as well, Pearce said the college “expects to have a lot of fun with this one.”
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Great news for fantasy buffs thanks to Rosie:
“I found a magazine at Brook’s Drugstore called “Fantasy Worlds”, brought out by Starlog. [I assume she’s talking about the US – Tehanu] This is the first issue (February 2002) and it is a “Premiere Collectible Edition” featuring LOTR and Harry Potter. The LOTR articles include…
“One Ring to Rule Them All” – ‘Peter Jackson & company film JRR Tolkien’s epic trilogy’ “Hobbit Talk” – joint interview with Wood, Astin, Monaghan and Boyd “Fellowship of the Four” – 4 separate interviews with McKellen, Mortenson, Bean and Rhys-Davies “Warrior Elf” – a two page article/interview about Orlando Bloom
They’re some great articles, with a lot of pictures, some new but no revelutionaty or anything. There’s also a lot of great articles on Harry Potter, a fantastic article on Neil Gaiman (heralding him as “Fantasy’s Great Hope”), news about the Dinotopia miniseries, and various other things… (apparently there’s a miniseries of Madeleine L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle in Time” coming this February *short scream*). Definitely worth the $6.99! Unfortunately I couldn’t find anything in the magazine telling you how to subscribe…too bad, because it seems like it would be a great magazine to get in the mail for next year or so, what with all the great Fantasy stuff going around!”
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