TheOneRing.net staffer MrCere writes: Like many TORn folks I am hammered. The build up and delivery of a line party coinciding with PJ’s movie is an amazing and draining process. The Salt Lake City line bought out the historic Villa theater, the grand old lady of single theater movie houses in the intermountain west. [More]
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AndrewR writes: Supposedly TTT just took the record for the most pre-bought tickets to a movie ever in Australia – which was set just last month with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and before that by Titanic.
Chrisj4 writes that UK’s Widescreen Magazine has a LOTR dedicated issue.
Anyone with scans of the issue, send them along!
Wiredkiwi sends us some additional info on the horses used for the films: A grey Andalusian stallion named Florian was used for close up and stunt work, and his (now) owner was the riding double for Liv Tyler. [More]
Wiredkiwi sends us some additional info on the horses used for the films:
A grey Andalusian stallion named Florian was used for close up and stunt work, and his (now) owner was the riding double for Liv Tyler. Florian now gives displays at equestrian events around NZ and is standing at stud.
Strider’s horse in the film is a very high profile stallion in NZ, being one of the top dressage horses in the country, owned, trained and ridden by Bill Noble. Can’t remember the name of the horse for the life of me though. Rumor has it that Viggio Mortensen, who was the most enthused about horses of the ‘fellowship’ liked him so much he tried to by him after filming. However this was not the bay Andalusian offered for sale.
NZ Horse and Pony maazine would possibly be able to supply you with the full copy and perhaps images of the feature they did on the LOTR horses.
dapascha writes: On Wednesday december 18th The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers opened with a record number of visitors. Over 50.000 people went to see the film on the first day and caused a record box-office opening of over 350,000 Euro. [More]