SiriCerasi
Cadet
but of COURSE it is nad! :lol:hmm i loved all of Gimli's funny lines, of course :lol:
But my fav is, of course, Eowyn: "I am no man"
but of COURSE it is nad! :lol:hmm i loved all of Gimli's funny lines, of course :lol:
But my fav is, of course, Eowyn: "I am no man"
'Return of the King' Takes Crown at Weekend Box Office
Sunday December 21 2:10 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Unlike most movie franchises, the hugely successful "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is ending with a bang at the box office.
According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, the much-hyped fantasy saga "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" sold $125.1 million worth of tickets in its first five days of release across North America, setting several new records in the process.
The final installment in director Peter Jackson's hobbit series performed 24 percent better than its predecessor, "The Two Towers," which opened with $102 million one year ago and went on to make $341 million domestically.
The five-day haul for the new film ranks as the best for a Wednesday release, surpassing the old record of $105 million set by "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" in 1999.
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Its Friday-to-Sunday tally of $73.6 million is the best three-day opening for a December release, beating the "Two Towers" mark of $62 million. On this basis, it also ranks as the third-best opener of 2003 behind "The Matrix Reloaded" ($91.8 million) and "X2: X-Men United."
The franchise kicked off in December 2001 with "The Fellowship of the Ring," which earned $47.2 million in its first three days, $94 million in five days (including Christmas Day), and finished up with about $314 million.
The films, shot in New Zealand for about $100 million each, were released by New Line Cinema, a unit of Time Warner Inc.
KING Reigns Over Box Office
Monday December 22 4:00 PM ET
New Line's The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King smashes domestic and worldwide box office records in its opening.
By Claire Runitz, FilmStew.com
New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King moved out of Middle Earth and took over the planet this weekend as the third installment in the popular Peter Jackson trilogy dominated the box office and shattered records along the way. During its five days of worldwide release, over $246.1 million worth of business bowed before the King, making it the biggest worldwide opeing in history.
Domestically, the final installment in the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy brought home $73.6 million over the three-day weekend and $125.1 million since its opening on Wednesday. The film crossed the $100 million mark after four days in release and scored a record $121 million from 28 territories around the world.
King's $246 million purse cruised past Warner Bros.' The Matrix Revolutions to become the biggest worldwide opening ever. During its first five days in relase, Revolutions pulled in $202.8 million. King also became the biggest opener of the LOTR films. The Two Towers' opening weekend saw $62 million in receipts and $102 million after its first five days. The Fellowship of the Ring grossed only $94 million in its first seven days in release.
The King also reigned over several domestic box office records. The film now holds the title of having the biggest Wednesday opening ever with $34.5 million and has the distinction of having the biggest first five days ever, beating out 20th Century Fox's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, which garnered $105.7 million in its first five days. King also walked past The Two Towers to take the title of the biggest December opening ever.
Sunday December 21 2:10 PM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Unlike most movie franchises, the hugely successful "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is ending with a bang at the box office.
According to studio estimates issued on Sunday, the much-hyped fantasy saga "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" sold $125.1 million worth of tickets in its first five days of release across North America, setting several new records in the process.
The final installment in director Peter Jackson's hobbit series performed 24 percent better than its predecessor, "The Two Towers," which opened with $102 million one year ago and went on to make $341 million domestically.
The five-day haul for the new film ranks as the best for a Wednesday release, surpassing the old record of $105 million set by "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace" in 1999.
This Week's Guests:
John Calley and
Anthony Minghella
Watch this week's entire episode online!
click to watch now
at Yahoo! Movies
Its Friday-to-Sunday tally of $73.6 million is the best three-day opening for a December release, beating the "Two Towers" mark of $62 million. On this basis, it also ranks as the third-best opener of 2003 behind "The Matrix Reloaded" ($91.8 million) and "X2: X-Men United."
The franchise kicked off in December 2001 with "The Fellowship of the Ring," which earned $47.2 million in its first three days, $94 million in five days (including Christmas Day), and finished up with about $314 million.
The films, shot in New Zealand for about $100 million each, were released by New Line Cinema, a unit of Time Warner Inc.
KING Reigns Over Box Office
Monday December 22 4:00 PM ET
New Line's The Lord of the Ring: The Return of the King smashes domestic and worldwide box office records in its opening.
By Claire Runitz, FilmStew.com
New Line Cinema's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King moved out of Middle Earth and took over the planet this weekend as the third installment in the popular Peter Jackson trilogy dominated the box office and shattered records along the way. During its five days of worldwide release, over $246.1 million worth of business bowed before the King, making it the biggest worldwide opeing in history.
Domestically, the final installment in the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy brought home $73.6 million over the three-day weekend and $125.1 million since its opening on Wednesday. The film crossed the $100 million mark after four days in release and scored a record $121 million from 28 territories around the world.
King's $246 million purse cruised past Warner Bros.' The Matrix Revolutions to become the biggest worldwide opening ever. During its first five days in relase, Revolutions pulled in $202.8 million. King also became the biggest opener of the LOTR films. The Two Towers' opening weekend saw $62 million in receipts and $102 million after its first five days. The Fellowship of the Ring grossed only $94 million in its first seven days in release.
The King also reigned over several domestic box office records. The film now holds the title of having the biggest Wednesday opening ever with $34.5 million and has the distinction of having the biggest first five days ever, beating out 20th Century Fox's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, which garnered $105.7 million in its first five days. King also walked past The Two Towers to take the title of the biggest December opening ever.
allaliasallthetime
Cadet
OMG that's freakin amazing!!! 
Yeah i heard that they earned 7 million at the midnight opener! :blink: That's incredible.....no movie(probably not for a long time) will top this last installment.
Yeah i heard that they earned 7 million at the midnight opener! :blink: That's incredible.....no movie(probably not for a long time) will top this last installment.
SiriCerasi
Cadet
dammit nad i was gonna post that :lol:
Finally seen it. OMF was it amazing! Little disapointed that some things were not in it. My fav lines: "I am no man.", "0 chance of success, very small chance of survival, what are we waiting for?", and "It still only counts as one!" I love them comparing battle scores! Spage and I laughed are heads off! :lol:
Little disapointed that some things were not in it. My fav lines: "I am no man.", "0 chance of success, very small chance of survival, what are we waiting for?", and "It still only counts as one!" I love them comparing battle scores! Spage and I laughed are heads off! :lol:I am glad you liked it, Siri gets to see it today, and I have no clue what is going on now, hopefully I'll get to see it a few times during break, I still have a day of school left though, ONLY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE STILL IN CLASS. This is officially stupid! Anyways, I am making cookies and stuff today so that should be fun. ROTK ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alassè Culnàmo
Cadet
Still in school? Craziness. Anywho, amazing movie, seen it twice already. I can't wait for the extended edition!
SiriCerasi
Cadet
eee saw it again today!!!
it was the saddest this tim ei think
it was the saddest this tim ei think
bluheart13
Cadet
Finally for you Nad...I got off on Friday...that stinks for you.......YES I CANT WAIT FOR THE EXTENDED VERSIONNad said:each time will be even more sad, then we will all go into full blown depression after the extended edition is released...
SCHOOL IS FINALLY OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alassè Culnàmo
Cadet
The extended edition is gonna be so amazing!! It'll be like over four hours long(i hope).
possibility of being over 5 hours guys. The original theater cut (what was meant to be in theaters) was 4 hours and 50 minutes, that means we'll get that added in (confirmed by Ian McKellan, and rumor to be stated by PJ himself) and possible more footage he cut out for the extended specifically, we'll keep our fingers crossed!
SiriCerasi
Cadet
:thud: 5 hours?!?!
EEEEEEEEEK
EEEEEEEEEK
SiriCerasi
Cadet
"Lord of the Rings" is for boys ...
A New York Times critic falls for lazy gender-typing.
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By Stephanie Zacharek
Dec. 22, 2003 |
In the latest entry in the "blue is for boys, pink is for girls" school of criticism, Caryn James, in a New York Times Arts & Leisure piece on Sunday, argues that the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- up to and including the final installment, "The Return of the King" -- is a big snooze for those of us not blessed with a Y chromosome. James says she yawned through most of the first two movies, as well as the third: "The final entry in the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy reveals once more that what the chick flick is to men, this trilogy is to women -- or at least to a large secret society of us for whom the series is no more than a geek-fest, a technologically impressive but soulless endurance contest."
What's interesting about James' piece isn't that she dislikes Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" movies, which is any critic's prerogative. She thinks they're too rarely infused with human feeling. (She notes that she prefers the Jackson of "Heavenly Creatures," a nicely observed movie about two teenage girls who commit a murder.)
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Director Jackson revels in 'Rings'
By Larry Ratliff
Special to the Express-News
Web Posted : 12/17/2003 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD — Peter Jackson, director of the monumental "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, walks into the room with shoes on, a rare sight indeed.
The freethinking New Zealander thought he was doing TV interviews instead of print on this recent day in L.A., thus the shoes. It may be Jackson's only miscue in the amazing feat of filming three epic films simultaneously and then rolling them out to great fan acceptance and general critical acclaim a year at a time since 2001.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," which debuts on 27 San Antonio screens today, is the final and most ambitious of the three.
Looking back at the experience, Jackson, perhaps the most personable filmmaker working today, said there's no way the project would ever have gone forward if he and the film company, New Line, knew what they were in for at the beginning.
"I think it would have never happened," he said. "I think it's a fortunate set of circumstances that got us into it. And then it was a case of it taking on a life of its own as we were making it."
No one realized when the director best known for 1994's "Heavenly Creatures" talked his way into a J.R.R. Tolkien trifecta that it would morph into such a massive affair.
"It would have never been made if we knew how tough it was," Jackson said. "We would have been overwhelmed by the logistical nightmare we were about to go into. New Line would have been overwhelmed by the ultimate cost of it.
"Even though now what they finally spent on it (about $400 million) looks fine, it was a lot more than they thought it was going to cost at the beginning, about a hundred million dollars more."
He can admit it now. The fate of the second two films depended on the outcome of the first.
Jackson had mixed emotions even when "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" took off in late 2001, during the emotional fallout from 9-11. The first installment of the trilogy made $313 million domestically, taking a seat just above "The Lion King" as the No. 11 grossing film of all time.
Getting sufficient funding to tweak the second two would be easy after that, right?
Not necessarily.
Jackson, 42, said New Line could have just taken the money and ran, leaving "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" to die on the vine.
"They could pull right back and say, 'The first film's successful. We just want to put the next two out at the cheapest possible cost because we know we've got the audience now.'"
To Jackson's relief, the company went the opposite direction.
"Since the release of the first film, they've been very supportive. They gave us more money to do more shooting for 'Two Towers' and 'Return of the King,'" he said. "'The Return of the King' was supposed to have 375 effect shots back around 1998. We ended up with 1,500 effect shots.
"They let me do what I wanted to do on 'Return of the King,' which I appreciate enormously. It's possibly the greatest, unrestrained kind of freedom I'll ever have as a filmmaker."
"The Fellowship of the Ring" earned 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture and a best director nod for Jackson. It took home four golden statuettes, but director Ron Howard and his "A Beautiful Mind" took the top honors.
"Chicago" beat out "The Two Towers" earlier this year. Jackson was conspicuously absent among the director nominees.
Elijah Wood, who plays lead hobbit Frodo in the trilogy, hopes Academy voters will honor Jackson in the upcoming race in February.
"I just think that after all that he's accomplished with these movies over the past seven or eight years of his life, for him not to be acknowledged at least for one, which I think in essence would be acknowledging all three, would be a shame. It has never been done before," Wood said.
Jackson, who's gearing up for a new take on "King Kong," said he's going to just sit back and see what happens at Oscar time. On the other hand, as someone who has wanted to make movies since he was 7 and considers himself a movie fan, he doesn't hide his desire to be honored by his peers.
"I can't lie and say I wouldn't (want to win). I'm also aware that this year might be the closest that I'll get to it," he said. "At the same time, you can't emotionally invest in them. It's not the reason that you make films.
"You make films wanting to entertain people, wanting people to enjoy your movie and, ultimately, you make them for yourself."
A New York Times critic falls for lazy gender-typing.
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By Stephanie Zacharek
Dec. 22, 2003 |
In the latest entry in the "blue is for boys, pink is for girls" school of criticism, Caryn James, in a New York Times Arts & Leisure piece on Sunday, argues that the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- up to and including the final installment, "The Return of the King" -- is a big snooze for those of us not blessed with a Y chromosome. James says she yawned through most of the first two movies, as well as the third: "The final entry in the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy reveals once more that what the chick flick is to men, this trilogy is to women -- or at least to a large secret society of us for whom the series is no more than a geek-fest, a technologically impressive but soulless endurance contest."
What's interesting about James' piece isn't that she dislikes Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" movies, which is any critic's prerogative. She thinks they're too rarely infused with human feeling. (She notes that she prefers the Jackson of "Heavenly Creatures," a nicely observed movie about two teenage girls who commit a murder.)
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Director Jackson revels in 'Rings'
By Larry Ratliff
Special to the Express-News
Web Posted : 12/17/2003 12:00 AM
HOLLYWOOD — Peter Jackson, director of the monumental "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, walks into the room with shoes on, a rare sight indeed.
The freethinking New Zealander thought he was doing TV interviews instead of print on this recent day in L.A., thus the shoes. It may be Jackson's only miscue in the amazing feat of filming three epic films simultaneously and then rolling them out to great fan acceptance and general critical acclaim a year at a time since 2001.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King," which debuts on 27 San Antonio screens today, is the final and most ambitious of the three.
Looking back at the experience, Jackson, perhaps the most personable filmmaker working today, said there's no way the project would ever have gone forward if he and the film company, New Line, knew what they were in for at the beginning.
"I think it would have never happened," he said. "I think it's a fortunate set of circumstances that got us into it. And then it was a case of it taking on a life of its own as we were making it."
No one realized when the director best known for 1994's "Heavenly Creatures" talked his way into a J.R.R. Tolkien trifecta that it would morph into such a massive affair.
"It would have never been made if we knew how tough it was," Jackson said. "We would have been overwhelmed by the logistical nightmare we were about to go into. New Line would have been overwhelmed by the ultimate cost of it.
"Even though now what they finally spent on it (about $400 million) looks fine, it was a lot more than they thought it was going to cost at the beginning, about a hundred million dollars more."
He can admit it now. The fate of the second two films depended on the outcome of the first.
Jackson had mixed emotions even when "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" took off in late 2001, during the emotional fallout from 9-11. The first installment of the trilogy made $313 million domestically, taking a seat just above "The Lion King" as the No. 11 grossing film of all time.
Getting sufficient funding to tweak the second two would be easy after that, right?
Not necessarily.
Jackson, 42, said New Line could have just taken the money and ran, leaving "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King" to die on the vine.
"They could pull right back and say, 'The first film's successful. We just want to put the next two out at the cheapest possible cost because we know we've got the audience now.'"
To Jackson's relief, the company went the opposite direction.
"Since the release of the first film, they've been very supportive. They gave us more money to do more shooting for 'Two Towers' and 'Return of the King,'" he said. "'The Return of the King' was supposed to have 375 effect shots back around 1998. We ended up with 1,500 effect shots.
"They let me do what I wanted to do on 'Return of the King,' which I appreciate enormously. It's possibly the greatest, unrestrained kind of freedom I'll ever have as a filmmaker."
"The Fellowship of the Ring" earned 13 Academy Award nominations, including best picture and a best director nod for Jackson. It took home four golden statuettes, but director Ron Howard and his "A Beautiful Mind" took the top honors.
"Chicago" beat out "The Two Towers" earlier this year. Jackson was conspicuously absent among the director nominees.
Elijah Wood, who plays lead hobbit Frodo in the trilogy, hopes Academy voters will honor Jackson in the upcoming race in February.
"I just think that after all that he's accomplished with these movies over the past seven or eight years of his life, for him not to be acknowledged at least for one, which I think in essence would be acknowledging all three, would be a shame. It has never been done before," Wood said.
Jackson, who's gearing up for a new take on "King Kong," said he's going to just sit back and see what happens at Oscar time. On the other hand, as someone who has wanted to make movies since he was 7 and considers himself a movie fan, he doesn't hide his desire to be honored by his peers.
"I can't lie and say I wouldn't (want to win). I'm also aware that this year might be the closest that I'll get to it," he said. "At the same time, you can't emotionally invest in them. It's not the reason that you make films.
"You make films wanting to entertain people, wanting people to enjoy your movie and, ultimately, you make them for yourself."
SiriCerasi
Cadet
i got Aragorn's ring for christmas!! :thud:
