Troy teaser poster
Latino Review
Latino Review has posted the teaser poster for Troy featuring all Brad.
ROTK soundtrack out on Nov 25
Coming Soon
Coming Soon reports that the original soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings: The Return Of The King, will be released on November 25. You can pre-order the soundtrack at Amazon.com
One Director to be paid like a top Movie Star
New York Times
When Universal Pictures ushered the "Lord of the Rings" auteur Peter Jackson and his team into Hollywood's elite 20/20 club — $20 million in guaranteed up-front salary against 20 percent of the gross receipts — the action underscored a major Hollywood shift: event-movie directors are becoming as valuable as stars like Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson.
Celebrities team up with SAG Foundation for Storyline Online
Business Wire
The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Foundation, the charitable arm of the Screen Actors Guild, has gathered celebrity members in film and television to promote a program to increase literacy nationwide, Storyline Online (www.bookpals.net/storyline). The program streams video programs online featuring celebrities reading children's books aloud and offers books of various themes by award-winning authors. The 2003 line-up showcases readings by Elijah Wood ("Lord of the Rings"), Melissa Gilbert ("Little House on the Prairie" and SAG President), Esai Morales ("NYPD Blue" and "American Family"), Bonnie Bartlett & William Daniels ("St. Elsewhere" and "Boy Meets World") and special guest former Vice President Al Gore.
Pirates is the best Orlando's film
BBC iFilms
Fans have voted Pirates of the Caribbean as the best film Orlando's made.
Pirates of the Caribbean review
Gaywired
Hulk was fun, so was Angels, Nemo was intriguing, and Matrix, was well, you get the idea. But, Pirates of the Caribbean was sidesplitting, swishbuckling hilarity.
I'm not sure that Gore Verbinski realized it at the time, or if he even knows it today, after all his previous entries have left plenty to be desired, but Pirates is bound for greatness. Not that it is a great film. It isn't. But, the acting is priceless. Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom are magnificent in bringing their characters over the top in a brilliant spoof of the great pirate films of the likes of Errol Flynn in the 1940s. Orlando, is equally brilliant as the young blacksmith Will Turner searching for his girlfriend who was snatched by pirates. He turns to Sparrow for help, and we know just how Sparrow would like to help him. Does the old phrase 'ditch the bitch and switch' ring a bell? If Depp is the camp, Bloom is the eye candy, and be assured you will gain ten pounds just watching the candy boy on screen. But don't dismiss him as just another hunky face and body. This is one accomplished actor who is going places.
Troy teaser trailer
Latino Review
Latino Review reports that Troy teaser trailer will be attached to the Matrix Revolutions which will hit theatres worldwide next week. The site posted an exclusive look at the title image of Troy which you will see in the teaser trailer with this voice over narration:
"There is a legend twenty-eight centuries old. That tells of a queen who betrayed her King and the warrior he called upon to lead a war for vengeance. If love is worth fighting for it has known no greater battle than this." Update: Here's a cleaned up version of the title from Elf Lady
Read With Orlando
posted by Jas
Kay reports that YM.com picked the story about Orlando in the poster promoting the Teen Read Week campaign.
Orlando calendar
posted by Jas
Alison reports: Have just been shopping in Telford HMV shop and bought an Orlando 2004 calendar. Not an official one but one done by TV Times. It only cost £5.99 and you get a large full page picture for every month.
ROTK trailer
posted by Jas
Aarien reports: Don't know if you have this info yet, but I went to see 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' at my local cinema this weekend, and they were showing the Return of the King trailer beforehand! All I can say is...wow...and, erm, SHELOB!!!! Aaaaagggghhhhh....
Billy Boyd & Annie Lennox will sing in ROTK soundtrack
The Daily Record
Lord of the Rings Scot Billy Boyd will sing on the soundtrack of The Return of the King, last film in the series.
Billy, who plays Pippin, features on The White Tree: The Steward Of Gondor. Annie Lennox sings the theme tune Into The West for the film, on release on December 17.
ROTK running time
Birch.com
According to Birch.com, the running time for ROTK is 210 minutes.
Wizardry heads children's Baftas
BBC News
The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets are set to go head to head at this year's Children's Bafta awards. Both are nominated in two categories, best feature film and the Lego/Bafta Kids best film, voted for by children.
David Wenham delves into Gondor's unlikely hero
lordoftherings.net
The Official site has posted an interview with David Wenham as well as a video clip of the Battle of Pelennor Fields which was posted on the MSN website last week.
Aragorn fights troll in ROTK
Ain't It Cool
That's what you'll see in the Return of the King according to Ain't It Cool
Special extended edition screening engagement
lordoftherings.net
Purchase a ticket for one of the Extended Editions screenings at the Officical site and you are qualified to receive a limited edition The Lord of the Rings Trilogy poster!
See premiere of new 'Rings' movie free with Air NZ
Travelbiz
Air New Zealand is offering free tickets to the world premiere of the final instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Return of the King. In a major promotion for its new Tasman Express class, the airline is giving passengers the chance to win tickets to the exclusive screening as well as entry to the official post-event party with members of the cast, and two nights' accommodation.
Barriers to line route of Rings parade
Stuff Entertainment
Metal barriers will separate onlookers from the stars of the third Lord of the Rings instalment, when cast members parade from Parliament to Courtenay Place on December 1. Wellington City Council events manager John Dawson said the council expected more than 80,000 people to line the two-kilometre route, which included Lambton Quay and Willis St, to the red carpet in Courtenay Place.
Fans wage war after missing precious `Rings' tickets
Boston Herald
The hottest tickets in the country this week aren't for rock concerts or sports events but for a 13-hour movie marathon that will test the backside and bladder of the most ardent hobbit fancier. Tickets for special back-to-back screenings of all three ``Lord of the Rings'' movies - $25 to $49 at the box office - sold out within hours and are now being auctioned online for as much as $600 a pair.
New Zealand Sets 3rd 'Rings' Promotion
Reuters
The New Zealand government has announced a NZ$4 million ($2.4 million) package to promote "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."
The world premiere will take place in Wellington -- home town of the trilogy's director, Peter Jackson -- on Dec. 18, with key events to include a dinner for international media and a prime ministerial reception for the cast and key crew.
Lord of the Rings fans queue three weeks for tickets
Ananova
Lord of the Rings fans in Norway have been queuing in the cold for three weeks for tickets to the premiere of the final film in the trilogy. Some 144 fans, dressed as Tolkien creatures such as hobbits, elves and orcs, have been queuing outside the Colosseum Cinema in Oslo.
War of the Ring game
Yahoo News
Vivendi Universal Games (VU Games) announced today that development of its upcoming PC real-time strategy game based on J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring (War of the Ring) has been completed. In War of the Ring, massive battles erupt as the Men, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits of Middle-earth battle Sauron's minions. Players can choose to play as the forces of good and valiantly fight for the One Ring's destruction or assume command of the forces of evil to claim control over Middle-earth forever.
Rings Pinball Coming
SciFi Wire
Stern Pinball announced the release of a Lord of the Rings pinball machine, themed to the Rings movies, in November. The machine follows the story of the movies, the company said. Players of the Lord of the Rings pinball machine collect the Elf Rings, the Dwarf Rings and the rings of mortal men, thereby forming The One Ring, the company said. The machine features a Balrog toy that pivots; a magnet in the center of The One Ring, which pulls the ball in and then feeds another ramp shaped in the form of Aragorn's legendary Narsil sword; multiball modes, including one for each movie, as well as for Gollum; and the Orthanc and Barad-dur towers. The machine also features the voices of movie stars Elijah Wood (Frodo) and John Rhys-Davies (Gimli).
Otto boards flight on 'Phoenix' redo
Yahoo Movies
"Lord of the Rings" veteran Miranda Otto is in negotiations to star opposite Dennis Quaid in a remake of "The Flight of the Phoenix". Otto will play a geologist in the 20th Century Fox action thriller, which is being directed by John Moore.
