Mike sends us the latest happenings all the way from South Africa, check it out!
I didn’t win this week’s ‘Quest for the Ring’ competition in the Sunday Times Newspaper, someone else (who’s probably never heard of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ won). Oh well, I guess I’ll have to enter again this week. Speaking of which, this week you can win five tickets to the South African premiere for the film which is also on December 10th. The press will be invited to this screening and, since South Africa is ahead of London, I think our premiere will actually be before their’s. Don’t know if any celebrities will be here, but I know Ian McKellen loves coming to South Africa (nah, he’ll probably go to the London one – so would I). I think the screening will be followed by champaigne and interviews for TV (i.e. what did you think?), so I don’t know if you can buy tickets or not, but if you can, they’ll probably set one back a bit.
South African advance ticket sales for the film go on sale this Friday I think. Also, a new cinema called ‘The Labia on Kloof’ (Kloof Street) is opening on December 19th with – yeah, ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ as there first film. They’re getting huge banners and cardboard standups and guess who’s been promised one? (he he he).
There’s also a new LOTR competition for DSTV subscribers this month, where people can win books, rings, soundtracks etc.
Also tonight on ‘Carte Blanche’ on M-NET at 19.00 they’re having a special on LOTR and tracing back its South African origins (Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein – if I was born there I’d also move).
That’s it for all the LOTR stuff happening in South Africa. Something tells me the hype’s begun.
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Lars writes: The Danish newspaper ‘B.T.’ is running a theme on The Lord of The Rings, and qoutes Danish actress Iben Hjejle (eee — bin yie (like tie) — lee) as saying she was offered a part in the third movie as “warrior princess” – presumably she means Eowyn. Iben has played together with Ian Holm in the movie Napoleon. She declined the offer, though, as she did not fancy going to New Zealand for seven months. Maybe she will live to regret that!
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RoboGeek from AICN writes: Robogeek from Ain’t It Cool News here. Just thought I’d take a break from
killing orcs with my new Sting replica, as I have a few tidbits to pass along to your most excellent site…
According to my trusty TiVo, here are three forthcoming LORD OF THE RINGS specials airing over the next couple of weeks. (Make sure to double-check your local listings.)
LORD OF THE RINGS PREVIEW
TNT (:10)
The making of the upcoming movie “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” Fri. 12/7, Sat. 12/8 and Sun. 12/9 @ 10:50 pm / 9:50pm CST (*Airs immediately following THE MATRIX.)
PASSAGE TO MIDDLE-EARTH
SCIFI (1:00)
Interviews with cast and crew spotlight the trilogy “The Lord of the Rings”
Sun. 12/9 @ 8pm / 7pm CST
Mon. 12/10 @ 1am / 12am CST
Mon. 12/10 @ 10pm / 9pm CST
Mon. 12/10 @ Midnight / 11 pm CST
MAKING THE MOVIE: LORD OF THE RINGS
MTV (:30)
Elijah Wood stars in the film
Mon. 12/10 @ 10pm / 9pm CST
Tue. 12/11 @ 5pm / 4pm CST
Also, our good buddy Elijah Wood will apparently be interviewed on Monday’s “E! News Daily” @ 6:30pm / 5:30pm CST. He is also tentatively scheduled to appear on “Late Night With David Letterman” on CBS Tue., 12/11.
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Quebec Newspaper had a Lord of the Rings supplement with it today, using art from favourite Tolkien artists to help summarise the story of Lord of the Rings, from a chart showing the 9 members of the Fellowship of a list of Frodo’s friends and enemies. Thanks to Frederic we have the supplement scanned, and is a great read even if you aren’t a French-speaking ringer!
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Thanks to Neil, we have scans from the Empire Magazine special Collector’s Edition for the Fellowship of the Ring. Some nice pics, along with some great interviews with the cast and a new advertising poster!
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From Maya:
Since parts of the nordic countries get to se the swedish tv channel TV4 I thought it would make a few ringers happy to know that they are sending a Behind the sceens program on thuesday 4th at 20.00 (8.00 pm and a second one the 19th (obviusly) at 16.30. Here’s what the program descrition from their site say in swedish:
Världen har väntat på filmerna som bygger på JRR Tolkiens böcker Sagan om ringen och snart är det världspremiär för den första filmen. För första gången i filmhistorien har tre filmer spelats in samtidigt. Peter Jackson, som står för regi, manus och som även är medproducent, har ägnat sju år åt planering inför den två år långa inspelningen som ägde rum på Nya Zeeland.
I två program handlar det om Sagan om ringen-filmerna. I det första, som sänds i kväll, tittar vi in bakom kulisserna där filmskaparna och deras produktionsgrupp delar med sig av alla erfarenheter de fått under de mest omfattande filminspelningarna någonsin. Vi träffar regissören Peter Jackson och några av skådespelarna: Elijah Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett med flera. De berättar om hur de flera månader före inspelningen, började öva på de udda dialekter de skulle tala med, och om hur de sedan kändes att nästan leva i Tolkiens mystiska värld under den långa inspelningsperioden. Vi får även en exklusiv förhandstitt på delar ur den första filmen och tittar närmare på några av de spektakulära specialeffekter som använts.
Det andra programmet som handlar mer om själva filmen visar vi den 19 December kl. 16.30.
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