Sir Ian McKellen is backing The Fellowship Of The Ring to win this year’s Oscar for Best Picture. He thinks it will win because Tolkien’s world is so popular amongst Hollywood filmmakers. “I’ll stick my neck out and say it’s going to win Best Picture.” [More]
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David writes: While standing in line to see “A Beautiful Mind”, my wife and I were chatting with the ticket taker. As this was only a week or so ago, I asked how attendance was holding up for FOTR. She said that it had quieted down considerably, but then added this tidbit: she claimed that a new last reel to FOTR was going to be released “in two weeks”. It would contain scenes from TTT as well as footage cut from FOTR.
Kristen writes: Just a reminder, if you haven’t heard, US Skater (and current National Champion) will be skating to a montage of LOTR soundtrack tunes on Thursday night (Feb. 14th) as part of the 19th Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City, Utah. The Mens’ Long Program Event will be aired on NBC (in the US) at 10:00-12:00 pm Eastern Time and 9:30 – 11:30 PM Pacific. [More]
Back in October 2001, we reported here on a trivia contest run by Barnes & Noble. Well today, Tita Arce from Texas found a box full of Sideshow/Weta merchandise at her front door as the 1st prize winner in the competition! Congratulations Tita!
Sean wrote in to say that he noticed something on Amazon.co.uk that suggests that the ‘Art of Fellowship of the Ring’ book is being released in conjunction with the VHS and DVD versions of Fellowship of the Ring – between May 20th and early June. [More]
Brandon from Boxofficemojo.com chimed in to quite rightly point out that IMDB‘s All-Time Worldwide list isn’t up to date, and in fact Fellowship of the Ring has overtaken Forrest Gump to claim #9 spot. Next up? Steven Spielberg’s E.T. [More]