From: feebleslover1
I work at Blockbuster and was able to watch Rush Hour 2 on dvd, due out 12/11. To find the trailers, go to the scene selections screen. It is designed as a slot machine with the scenes in the three slot windows. Highlight the yellow left arrow and click, which will display the previous 3 scenes. The left slot window contains a question mark. Click on that window to watch one of the trailers in widescreen, dolby digital 5.1!! For the other, keep clicking the yellow left arrow until you see a red circle with a black (dragon?) in the left slot window. Click on that for the other trailer. They look and sound fantastic. Also, the final trailer is also on the Rush Hour II vhs tape.
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We can reveal the name of another character actor in FOTR: Noel Appleby.
ProudFEET!
I happened to be talking to Kiwi actor Noel Appleby recently, and it turns out that he played a character called Everard Proudfoot in the opening Shire scenes. The name confused me at first – there’s an Everard Took mentioned in the book, but the only Proudfoot we know of is Odo. Nevertheless, Noel Appleby’s line was to shout out “ProudFEET!” as per the scene at Bilbo’s party.
Noel’s is one of those familiar faces in Kiwi film – I remembered him playing Ulf in Vincent Ward’s The Navigator, in which role he was awarded Best Supporting Actor
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Peter Orphanos, the producer for TORN Digital was recently invited to the press junket events in NYC. While he was there he saw a screening of the film (review to come soon) and met most of the cast!
Peter will have a full report soon, but here are a few tidbits for you to enjoy!
– All the cast seemed incredibly humble, they knew they are involved in something bigger than themselves.
– Peter Jackson revealed that he is almost done editing The Two Towers, and WETA are about 80% complete with regards to digital effects.
– Liv Tyler said that Viggo Mortensen was extremely adamant about adding lines from the appendix and ensuring that the lines were ver batum.
– Ian McKellen was extremely proud to be involved with the entire event.
– Elijah Wood seemed as cool and approachable as ever.
– Much more to come soon!
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Tolkientheo writes: I Don’t know if anyone has reported this yet but between 10:40-11:10 CT at a commercial break during Saturday Night Live tonight, I saw what was in my opinion the best of all of the FOTR tv spots. It couldn’t have been more than 30 seconds long. It began with (bear with me, saw it once, went by really fast) the shot of the trail in the forest during hobbit lunch break, than Frodo giving his “get off the road” line. Then I thought it showed a shot looking at expansive middle earth landscape from atop the misty mountains but close to the snow. You then see the chained ring being lifted in front of the camera. Next a few shots from previous trailers (battling orcs, uruk hai) than a shot of what looked like an exhausted Borormir in the forest looking RFG saying “Do you really think we stand a chance?” Than some more shots than one that stands out in my memory is one of the Cave troll attacking legolas – looks like the same part shown on Quest for the Ring w/ the troll attacking using the chain, only this time it was a shot from behind Legolas and the troll almost looked as if it was climbing up to the balcony part (not sure) then the music quickended and the trailer ended with a blur of dozens of shots – none of which lasting more than a second long – One of the shots I saw had to have been Saruman’s lair, it was raining.
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A fax came across my desk today from Disney Publicity, with Peter Travers’ 2001 Top Ten List on it. I couldn’t believe my eyes, however, when I saw what the #1 movie is… you guessed it: Lord of the Rings!! This is a huge development! I frankly wasn’t expecting this kind of critical response, and Peter Travers is a very well-respected critic. This list will be in the December 27th end-of-the-year double-issue of Rolling Stone, which hits newsstands on Dec. 7th. Here is Peter Travers complete top ten list…
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Ali
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Shrek
5. Vanilla Sky
6. Moulin Rouge
7. Black Hawk Down
8. A Beautiful Mind
9. A.I.
10. Ocean’s 11
Here is another confirmation of this through Ringer spy Beorn Jr.:
Hi, this is my first spy report to a website so I’m sorry if it comes out sounding all strange…. I am just SO excited by this news. I believe what my source tells me, but who knows until we really see it in print?
My friend (who was one of the people working with New Line) told me that Peter Travers, prominent movie critic for Rolling Stone magazine, had seen a very early screening of “Fellowship of the Ring” over a week ago….. like way before anyone else did. He was so blown away by it that he declared it BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR.
And that’s not all…… the early Oscar buzz has started to change a lot since the screenings this week! People are reacting with more and more enthusiasm so that now New Line is beginning to realize what they’ve got on their hands! Looks like a whole big campaign for Oscar voters will soon kick in.
I double-checked with my friend who is a director and he said it’s true, Travers’ praise of the film will soon be out in Rolling Stone. Can you imagine the other large critics from Time, Entertainment Weekly, and of course Roger Ebert doing the same thing? What will happen next??!! I can’t wait to see this movie even more!!! Maybe we finally will have a fantasy movie that will rock the critical establishment and bring Tolkien the due praise he deserves for writing the greatest story ever! 🙂
Beorn Jr.
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From: Tony
This morning NZ Breakfast TV showed footage from inside the WETA workshop of the construction of a ‘scale’ model of the Cave Troll which attacks the Fellowship in Balin’s Tomb. This thing was HUGE. The Cave Troll was on it’s back and WETA guys were clambering all over it sculpting the legs and the torso – one guy looked like he was using a chainsaw. The head looked just about finished, and it looked AWESOME! They also showed what looked to be about a six foot model of the same thing, with it’s arms above it’s head holding a weapon aloft. But the six foot model – and the workers – were truly dwarfed by the ‘scale’ model. The finished Cave Troll is going to stand outside the Embassy Theatre for the NZ premiere of FOTR – can’t wait!
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