Im so happy bout that... but Il still wait for the ee I think
http://www.dvddebate.com/article.ph...hreaded&order=0
WITH A RECORD BREAKING ACADEMY AWARDS® SWEEP
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
MAKES ITS DVD DEBUT ON MAY 25
Two-Disc Theatrical Version of the Award-Winning Conclusion to THE LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy Takes Home Video Bow
Prior to the Planned Holiday 2004 Release of Special Extended Edition
LOS ANGELES, CA (March 8, 2004) – The King makes his return in filmmaker Peter Jackson’s stunning conclusion to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, arriving on DVD and VHS on May 25, 2004. The home video debut of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King will follow the groundbreaking success of the multi-tiered platform releases of both The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers, and will be available on a two-disc DVD and VHS for $29.95 and $24.97, respectively. A special extended edition of The Return of the King will follow as planned in time for the holidays.
Based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure of good versus evil, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King will be released separately in both widescreen and fullscreen versions, each including a second disc offering hours of additional content. Disc Two will feature behind-the-scenes specials, featurettes, theatrical trailers, TV spots, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy supertrailer, a preview of the upcoming The Lord of the Rings based video game from Electronic Arts and a link to exclusive online content about the motion picture trilogy.
“The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the crowning glory of a truly unparalleled filmmaking achievement,” said Stephen Einhorn, president and chief operating officer of New Line Home Entertainment. “The two-DVD edition includes the award-winning theatrical epic as well as hours of behind-the-scenes bonus materials.”
With current domestic and worldwide box office receipts at more than $364.1 million and $1 billion and rising, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the most successful box office film of the trilogy. Arriving on 7,205 North American screens and 7,403 screens in 28 territories internationally on December 17, 2003, The Return of the King set numerous box office records, achieving the all-time biggest openings in the United Kingdom, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland and New Zealand. A global phenomenon, The Return of the King smashed the international five-day box office record, earning more than $250 million during its opening weekend. The film, moreover, currently ranks as the second highest-grossing worldwide theatrical release of all time, becoming the second film ever to earn more than $1 billion and the first to hit this mark in only ten weeks.
Domestically, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King set box office records for the biggest December opening ($72.6 million, Friday-Sunday) and the highest Wednesday opening ($34.5 million) of all time. In addition, it took in $100 million in just four days, $200 million in 11 days and broke the $300 million barrier in just 24 days. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King currently ranks sixth on the list of all-time biggest domestic motion picture box office hits.
After appearing on over 270 national critics’ year-end top ten lists – occupying the number one spot on nearly 100 of them, including Time, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal and New York Daily News – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King swept the 76th Annual Academy Awards®, winning every one of the 11 categories in which it was nominated:
Best Picture, Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh, Producers
Director, Peter Jackson
Adapted Screenplay, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and Peter Jackson
Costume Design, Ngila *****on and Richard Taylor
Art Direction, Grant Major (Art Direction); Dan Hennah and Alan Lee (Set Decoration)
Film Editing, Jamie Selkirk
Original Score, Howard Shore
Original Song, “Into The West,” Music and Lyrics by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox; Performed By Annie Lennox
Makeup, Richard Taylor and Peter King
Visual Effects, Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Randall William Cook, and Alex Funke
Sound Mixing, Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick, Michael Hedges and Hammond Peek
In January, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was honored with four Golden Globe Awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, also winning each category in which it was nominated:
Best Picture (Drama), Peter Jackson, Barrie M. Osborne and Fran Walsh, Producers
Director, Peter Jackson
Original Score, Howard Shore
Original Song, “Into The West,” Music and Lyrics by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
The Return of the King also enjoyed recognition from many additional awards organizations and guilds, including Best Picture of the Year from the Producer’s Guild of America, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Washington D.C. Film Critics, the Southeastern Film Critics Association and the Ninth Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The Critics’ Choice Awards also honored The Return of the King with awards for Best Director, Ensemble Cast and Original Score (Howard Shore). Peter Jackson was named Best Director by the Directors Guild of America, San Francisco Film Critics Circle, Toronto Film Critics Association, Washington, D.C. Film Critics, San Diego Film Critics, and the Southeastern Film Critics Association; and the Screen Actors Guild and The National Board of Review honored the film with the award for Best Acting by an Ensemble. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King also received four awards from the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA), including Best Film.
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The EE it was said will be released on Holiday 2004, so November indeed. 🙁
Just a few comments I found from 'theoneparty' hosted by TORN (oh to have been there!).
These are from Peter Jackson to the fans -
"I'm sure most of you have heard me blabbing off in the past few weeks but we've just finished the extended cut of the DVD. I finished the edit before I came over here - these poor bastards at Weta have got another 350 effects shots to do! They're well on the way. Elijah's seen the extended cut. New Line have announced some box set that's supposed to be coming out which I didn't know anything about. When I've done 'King Kong' I'd like to do a proper box set and we've got a whole bunch of material - not of the movie but we've got a whole lot of bloopers out there! When King Kong's out the way I'd like to do a really high definition version with the best possbile picture quality.
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There's a complicated story... you'll have to listen to this. It's just something that we are going to put on the DVD in November for the extended Return of the King. There's this really funny thing that involved these two guys [points at:] Elijah and Dom. We were in Berlin doing our junket before the premiere of the film. All of us were over there doing press every day where they sit you down in front of cameras and you do all this press, except Elijah couldn't be in Berlin - he was in New York. I think he was doing the 'Saturday Night Live' thing but what Elijah agreed to do very kindly was to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning in New York and sit in front of a camera so that the journalists in Berlin could interview him live since he couldn't be there. So Elijah's in a situation where he's in a room at 4 o'clock in the morning and he has no pictures to look at - there's just a camera pointing at him and he has an earphone on. He's live and he can hear the interviewer in Berlin asking questions. They feed several German interviewers and Elijah sits there blankly looking at the camera and answering the questions that are coming through his earpiece. After that had happened three or four times Dominic, who was in Berlin, thought this was an opportunity for a great practical joke! So Dominic comes into the room in Berlin, puts on a German accent and he pretends to be a German interviewer. Elijah has got no idea whatsoever because Dom put on a great accent 'Ah, hello zere Mr Wood I am pleased to meet you'. And then Dom proceeds to ask Elijah the most outrageously rude questions and Elijah's got no idea. He's sat there being filmed and there's this absolute moron asking questions on the other side and he was videoed too. We've got this thing and it's the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life: seeing Elijah trying to hold it together when he's being bombarded with these horrible questions. It was so funny that we're going to stick it on the DVD."
😆 Can't wait to see that..😆
OMG i heard about that joke on some other site! I CANT WAIT TO SEE THAT! omg! that is gonna be halarious!!!!!
I sooooo cant wait for the ROTK dvd to come out to buy, and then the extended and then the huge trilogy box set!
Does anyone know if there will be bloopers on the ROTK dvd or the rotk extended???
I heard that they were gonna put bloopers on either the ROTK dvd or the ROTK extended
Originally posted by OrliNElijahsGrl
OMG i heard about that joke on some other site! I CANT WAIT TO SEE THAT! omg! that is gonna be halarious!!!!!I sooooo cant wait for the ROTK dvd to come out to buy, and then the extended and then the huge trilogy box set!
Does anyone know if there will be bloopers on the ROTK dvd or the rotk extended???
I heard that they were gonna put bloopers on either the ROTK dvd or the ROTK extended