Paul writes in with some information that will bring partial relief to Candian Ringers: I hope I am not advertising my way out of a ticket for this, but I received the following e-mail from Empire Theatres which is the largest cinema chain in eastern Canada. Just thought you might want to post this response to my e-mail inquiry to them. Thanks again love your site.
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From: XXXX@empiretheatres.com Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:17 PM
Hello and thank you for your email and feedback. We welcome all feedback and questions at Empire Theatres.
With the upcoming release of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the film’s distributor has decided to re-release the first two installments of the trilogy, with a marathon session of all three films in one day on December 16. But they have also decided to go limited in this endeavor. So we at Empire Theatres will be playing the re-release and the marathon at two of our locations, being Studio 12 Cinemas in St-John’s, NF and Empire 18 Bayers Lake in Halifax, NS.
We do not have details yet as to when tickets will go on sale. But if you check our website every once in a while at www.empiretheatre.com, it will be the first place we make the announcement.
Thank you again for using Empire Theatres Feedback and please feel free to e-mail us anytime.
Eriniel writes: I received the latest LOTR newsletter from Japan Herald, the distributor of LOTR trilogy in Japan, and I found a article about “Trilogy Tuesday” Tour by a travel agency called Travel Pia.
The cost of this tour is 137,000 yen ($1,251.03) for 5 days, included round-trip airline tickets, accommodations (for 3 nights), meals, pickup bus, ticket for “Trilogy Tuesday”, half-day LA sightseeing, taxes, baggage conveyance fee.
In their schedule, they’re going to see “Trilogy” in a movie theater in LA, and at least 40 persons are looked for on this tour. Also there’s another sign in red, says “limited 120 persons” in the upper part of the advertisement.
I don’t know how this agency could arrange and hold that much number of tickets. Unbelievable! I thought this “Trilogy” event is for LOTR fans, not for benefit of travel agency. Also I’m so disappointed it seems Japan Herald isn’t planning to hold “Trilogy” event in Japan by their effort and expense (or is it?), and encourages (= introducing this tour in their official newsletter) this kind of commercial activity.
I work for *snip* and yesterday I got the opportunity to watch a friend playing The Paths of the Dead-level of the upcoming EA ROTK game. It looked great, and the king of the Dead was quite scary indeed, as Aragorn battled him in a giant cave inside the mountain, a cave “where the dead gather”, according to one of Legolas’ lines.
However, the main reason I’m writing you is that I got a sneak peek at some press information that said that the magazine was not allowed to publish screenshots of these bosses: The King of the dead, Shelob, The Witchking and Sauron’s Lieutenant. I guess this means that a beefed up Mouth of Sauron will be the end of game boss, as well as “the big thing” Aragorn is rumoured to be fighting outside the black gates.
I have visited your great site every day for more than three years, and I do hope that this information is valuable to you.
Goose writes: I was just looking at the new picture of the Witch King on the Officical LOTR website and notice the small picture they have resembles a shot in the newest trailer.
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Hutson writes: Looking at the new image of the Witch King from the Official site, I wondered if this “look” for a Nazgul had been in the trailer. About 1 minute and 24 seconds in, I noticed that the shot of the Nazgul landing atop Minas Morgul as the light beam erupts from the top seemed to have some extrra spike-iness.
Looking at it frame-by-frame, it doesn’t seem to be the Fell Beast’s spikes, but that of the rider; a still frame, blown up and compared to the Witch King image, seems to point towards this in fact being the Morgul Lord himself. Looks pretty cool to me; I’m glad it doesn’t just look like a mini-Sauron from FotR. Thanks for the great site, and keep up the great work!
HilltopHood writes: I’m not sure if you know about this already, but I haven’t noticed it on your site so I thought I’d let you know.
The Hoyts (Australian cinema chain) website has details about screenings of the extended edition or FOTR and TTT. Fellowship of the Ring screens from December 11-17 and The Two Towers from December 18-22. There is also mention of a screening of a “Lord of the Rings Double Feature on December 23/24”, ahead of the release of Return of the King on December 26.
The screenings are listed to be shown at the Fox Studios (NSW), George St (NSW), Highpoint (VIC) and Carousel (WA) theatres. No mention of ticket sales at this point.
supermaneight writes: The American Film Institute in Silver Spring MD is planning a screening of Return of the King on December 5th.
These tickets will go on sale soon and will be available to members only of the theater. Memberships run anywhere from $30 to thousands and there will probably be prefence given to those with higher memberships. I don’t know how high, but I’m guessing members 100 and over will be first.
What I know right now is that tickets will cost $25 each (in addition to being a member) and there will probably be a limit of 2 per membership. The theater holds about 400 and it will probably sell out fast. While I actually don’t like the idea of seeing ROTK early I want fans of the films to know about this.
Tickets may go on sale as early as this week and they will be available online (I think) at www.afi.com/silver.
