Making sense of Middle-Earth
FilmStew.com has an in-depth feature on the LOTR films which includes interviews with the cast. They also have a roundtable with Peter Jackson (as well as a brief interview with Elijah Wood).
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CBS Early Show interview
If you missed Elijah Wood’s recent appearance on CBS’s “The Early Show”, you can read it here.
Gotta go?
A recent San Francisco Chronicle article makes the case that long movies (specifically RotK) should have intermissions, and gives tips for the bladder-challenged.
For all ye nitpickers, RotK blunders
The website Moviemistakes.com lists dozens of blunders and errors from Return of the King. They have found nearly thirty so far. Click here to see what you might have missed!
Empire’s exclusive photos!
Empire Online has a new gallery of exclusive LoTR’s cast photos, that weren’t included in the special December issue.
Jackson to be presented with Modern Masters Award
The 19th Annual Santa Barbara Film Festival will be presenting Peter Jackson with their Modern Masters Award.
For more info see here.
USA Today highlights Fran Walsh’s role in the LotR movies
An article at USA Today highlights PJ’s reliance on Fran Walsh including her role in bringing Gollum to the screen.
Marquette University adds to collection
Marquette University, Milwaukee, which owns the original manuscript of “Lord of the Rings” is obtaining 2,376 more items from collector Grace E. Funk. Archivist Matt Blessing is quoted as saying it has “”tremendous intellectual value”. The new items will go on display mid-2004. For more information go to Yahoo! News.
Be part of an online LotR research project
Be part of an international survey on the LotR films. (This project has funding support from the Economic and Social Research Council). They hope to have more than 100,000 replies. To complete the survey and for more details go to The Lord of the Rings Research Project.
RotK starts smashing box office records!
The final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy has set a US box office record for a film released on a Wednesday. The Return of the King sold £19.2m in tickets in the US and £13.2m in the rest of the world. Distributor New Line hopes the Return of the King will go on to break the $1 billion (£570m) global box office barrier.For more on the story, please click here.
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