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How Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Married Hollywood’s Past and Future
When The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King released into theatres December 15, 2003, it had the feel of a significant moment in Hollywood’s trajectory, not only from a cultural standpoint (it became the second-highest grossing blockbuster ever, at the time) but from the standpoint of accelerating Hollywood’s movement toward capitalising on…
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Journey to Middle Earth for up to 40% Less With This Tolkien Book Sale
Gather round doughty Hobbits if you’re eager to garner a precious collection of Lord of the Rings books that’ll make Gollum green with envy. If you follow the will-o’-the-wisps over to ye olde Amazon Australia, you’ll find a plethora of discounted Tolkien book deals on everything from a LOTR box set to a bargain on…
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Harvey Weinstein Threatened to Give Lord of the Rings to Quentin Tarantino
Let’s be clear: if Hollywood mega-producer-turned-convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein had actually fired Peter Jackson as director of Lord of the Rings and replaced him with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’s Quentin Tarantino, it probably wouldn’t have cracked the Top 100 of the most monstrous things the former Miramax head has ever done. But Weinstein…
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They Said Foundation Couldn’t Be Filmed, and It Still Hasn’t Been
In 1966, Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy was voted the best science fiction series of all time at the Hugo Awards. Other series have certainly surpassed it since then, although it’s still considered the work that codified the genre. Despite its fame, because the series is an epic on a galactic level told over the course…