Jonathan sends in good news: Peter Jackson has picked up the Cinemarati Award for Best Film Director! In these awards, each nominee has gone head-to-head with another nominee in three prior rounds of voting. The winners indicated were selected from the final two “survivors” of the first two rounds. [More]
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Elfstone sent in this link to a site which specialises in screen captures from all the recent documentaries on the creation of FotR: Fox’s Quest for the Ring, TNT’s Behind the Scenes, Sci-Fi’s Passage to Middle-earth and E! TV’s Force of Hobbit. Definetly worth a look. [More]
The Dunadan writes: The title of the main Olympics article in this week’s Sports Illustrated is “Fellowship of the Rings”. Nice big bold letters and the five botanical rings, spread across two pages.
Nicky and Colleen write: NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website has a nice pic of Saturn for today, captioned The Lord of the Rings, and promises something called the Lord of the Weekend. [More]
Karina sent in an article from Movie Request magazine which features an interview with Elijah Wood, and his ‘quest to avoid being typecast’. [More]
Pallando writes: According to several newspaper ads beyond the Sea of Rhun, FOTR will premiere on Feb. 23rd in Japan, with the regular showings beginning on Mar. 2nd. It’s 1300 yen for advance tickets and 2100 yen for same day shows, at least for northern areas in the bitter cold of Forodwaith such as Hokkaido.