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New Zealand tourism and film promotion boost
The recent negotiations to retain the filming of The Hobbit in New Zealand have led to a boost for its tourism and film industry. Prime Minister John Key has revealed that every DVD and download of The Hobbit will contain a video, directed by Peter Jackson, promoting New Zealand as a tourist and filmmaking destination.…
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LotR – behind the scenes footage
You can view a clip from the new behind-the-scenes documentary at the Lord of the Rings official site. The full documentaries can be seen on the new LotR Limited Edition DVDs.
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Limited edition LotR DVDs
Flickdirect has further details about the limited edition LotR DVDs which will be available from 29th August. Each set contains both the theatrical and extended editions of the movies and together the 3 DVD sets will contain over five hours of new footage.
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Rings documentary
Stuff.co.uk report that Costa Botes, director of the three new documentaries to be featured on the limited editionLotR DVDs scheduled for release on 29th August 2006, is disappointed by changes made by New Line to his work.
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LotR to be released again in August
New Line Home Entertainment is planning on releasing ‘limited edition’ DVD’s of FotR, TTT and RotK this coming August. The 2-disc limited edition sets will include exclusive behind-the-scenes documentaries.
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High definition for LotR
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is expected to be released on high definition digital discs in 2006. You can read read further details at videobusiness.com.
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The “Ringers” are here
“Ringers – Lord of the fans” is now available on DVD. This 97 minute documentary is narrated by Dominic Monaghan and contains; deleted scenes from the trilogy, filmmakers’ commentary and more. You can read all about it and see 2 video clips, including an interview with Andy Serkis, at amazon.com.
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Amazon Hall of Fame – top DVDs
As part of their 10th anniversary celebrations Amazon.com has compiled a list of their top 25 best-selling DVDs. The LotR DVDs head the list at numbers 1, 2 and 3. You can see the full list here. In a live webcast on 16th July at 5pm PST Amazon will be showing never seen before behind-the-scenes…
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The Lord of the Rings movies – it’s not over yet!
In an interview at USA Today.com Peter Jackson has revealed he has plans to produce an “ultimate DVD collection of the extended versions” of the LotR movies. However, it’s likely that these won’t be available for two to three years. Peter says he would like to include documentaries on the making of the movies, to…
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Mistakes of the Rings
The list of movie errors at moviemistakes.com has been updated and now includes some from the recently released extended edition of RotK.
