This report quotes somebody who saw the 25 minutes shown at Cannes through his games manufacturing connections:
“He said he and his boss were tearing up within the first few minutes of the showing and they didn’t stop for the entire footage. Once done he said that the press and people gathered went nuts applauding and asking for more. He said that if he had any doubts about it being a great movie they were squelched. He said everything was perfect, from the score to the actors…. he said that it was the most beautiful thing he has seen on film. The visuals were stunning… the people he works with are betting on how fast it will outrank Titanic and Star Wars….Just thought you might be interested.”
Indeed we are. Thanks for that.
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Nicolas sends us word on the release date in France, as well as some insider info on movies dubbed in french.
I saw in a french TV show that the movie release in France would be the 19th December. It is logic because the 19 th is a Wednesday, the normal release day for movies in France.
Apart from that, I saw the trailer 1 dubbed in French. Usually I always prefer original versions, but this dubbing was AWFUL! (I can attest to this, we get the same french movies here, and most of the time it’s horribly done -Xo) I hope they will make efforts for the real thing, because if they don’t they won’t get anyone to see the movie.
And I hope there will not be only the dubbed version released. It is not usually the case, but it happens sometimes even for blockbusters (Dinosaurs for example was released only in dubbed version)
Nicolas D
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Ringer Spy Becky sends along details from the latest Total Film magazine.
I was able to pick up the Total Film (Ben Affleck cover) in question this weekend – of course just for the trailer CD (and the free cinema ticket too:)). I can inform you that the trailer is not the new one – which we Brits should see in front of Pearl Harbor, but the ‘teaser’ – which can also been seen on the trailer reels shown at Basildon UCI cinema (I’m assuming this goes for all UCI cinemas).
Talking of UCI cinemas – they have just produced a leaflet detailing family movies that can be seen between now and February next year. Apart from the obvious (Harry Potter, Shrek) and the bizarre (Help I’m a Fish) they list Fellowship – along side a rather cute picture of Legolas (headshot). The blurb gives a rather succinct summary of the story (dangerous quest, go see Elrond etc) of the film and then entreaties people to read the novels to find out what’s going on!
It gives the release date as being 19th December and all in all a very nice piece of advanced publicity and a lot better than what Harry Potter got!
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Ringer Spy Darth Frede sends along a translation of the Viggo RealVideo.
Woman: “And know to the realm of adventures. Tolkien’s piece: “The Lord of the Rings”, has been read by 100 million people.
Now the trilogy has been made into a movie, and with the biggest marketing campaignin movie history, which began these days in Cannes, “movie-go’ers” all over the world will be tempted to the cinema and watch the hobbits fight against evil.
Narator: 400,000,000 crowns (the danish coin), or the equal to 50 danish “dogme-movies”, is what the movie company “New Line Cinema” is spending on the promotion of “Lord of the Rings” alone.
The first step was taken at a castle outside of Cannes. Press from all over the world was invited to a party with the actors and the director, in an adventure set populated by hobbits, eleves and trolls (they clearly meant orcs).
As the book is known by many, the movie company has been very secret about the project, untill the film festival in Cannes.
Peter Jackson: [I’m in a hurry, so I’m not gonna write the english parts]
Narator: It takes alot to make a movie over Tolkien’s masterpiece. 2000 people were involved in the project. Hardcore fans of the book, are allready discussing if it’s okay to make a movie over the classic from 1954.
It took more than a year to film the three movies in New Zealand. The first will premier on the 19. of december.
The total cost of the movies 2,500,000,000 crowns.
The Danish-American actor, Viggo Mortensen, has been part of the cast, and has played one of the main characters.
Viggo Mortensen: “It was a great cast and crew. And I must say, that it was probably the best experience I’ve ever had with a crew. It’ll probably never happen again for me.”
Woman The interest in the movies is allready huge. The official site, which has been up since februrary (last year ; She doesn’t say that), 365,000,000 visitors.
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News from Australia, thanks to Mark:
“I am pleased to tell you that the new LORD OF THE RINGS trailer should be on screen by Thursday May 31 ( that’s subject to getting the copies delivered on time ). It will screen with MOULIN ROUGE / THE MUMMY RETURNS / and either JOE DIRT / HEAD OVER HEELS / or FIFTEEN MINUTES.
The film will release nationally on December 26.”
Chu (who is building the first Chinese-language LOTR website I’ve heard of) wrote to say “because our Chinese New Year is the longest vacation possible, so they picked next February to be the film’s date.”
Nick read in a local paper that the FOTR will be released in Switzerland on December 20th.
From Leandro in Spain: “I suppose this could be of some interest: in Spain, the trailer will be associated to most of the copies of “Town & Country” (with Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Andie McDowell) More details on Elfenomeno
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Some great new pics for you to behold, check these babies out!
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