"The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring," the first in the trilogy, was an action epic that played most strongly to males in their teens and 20's.
Not incidentally, New Line's economy-minded corporate parent played with the notion of melding this mid-level studio with its much larger Warner Brothers unit before "The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" erupted six years ago.
And you will learn that McKenzie, a native New Zealander, had a three-second role as a nameless elf in "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" in 2001.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) were highly successful, both commercially and critically.
a) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone b) American Pie c) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring d) Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 6.
The uplifting middlebrow melodrama ("A Beautiful Mind," in case you've already forgotten) walked off with the big awards, while the fantasy blockbuster ("The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring") had to settle for a handful of technical honors.
This month, the author Michael Moorcock celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, which, as fate would have it, fell in the same month that Peter Jackson closed out his hexology of films that began with "Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship the Ring" and ended with "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies".
Since I left Fort Stewart, I've read: "The Hobbit," "Halo," "The Lord of the Rings" ("The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two Towers,") "Aliens vs. Predator: War" and "Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars, Volume II".
It was a bit of a risk, but the first part, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings," made a bundle of money, and this one probably will too.
The Nothing Real program Shake also helped craft the look of this year's "Best Picture" Oscar nominees Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings and Moulin Rouge, as well as the 2001 "Visual Effects" nominees Pearl Harbor and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
