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LOTR Campout Begins
Rocknalle writes: "As reported on The One Ring
queues have have already started lining up for The Fellowship Of The Ring. Team GladBlad (having placed themselves nr. 1-4 in the queue), are reporting live from the event via notebooks and and cellular networking (9.6 Kbps rules! :-). Visit GladBlad and see what happens when geeks goes outside." The other LOTR news I know of is a description of the journalistic teaser trailer. Salon seems to have liked what they saw.
They might be opening for ticket pre-sales on monday though. I bought my Star Wars ep I ticket two months in advance for instance...
I walked up to my local AMC the night before and bought 12 tickets without problem for a show"...
Well, with most shows that is ok, only the ones that are long awaited (I guess that only really happens with movies with geek appeal) get special treatment...
Also remember that this is Denmark we're talking about, knowing it is probably a lot similar to Norway there is not nearly as many or as big theatres there. If it's anything like Norway we're talking three or four really big and great (thinking mostly the size and quality of the sound systems here, but also some crowd and media coverage is good) theatres in the whole country. People don't want to watch these special movies in a small theatre with average sound (especially because of the aforementioned geek appeal), so people flock to the cities to see the movies even if the local theater would view them at the same time.
(BTW, With StarWars ep1, in Oslo premiere started at midnight, going through all the night, with breakfast included in the ticket price...the same will probably be done with LoTR)
Did anyone out there actually line up far in advance for Ep1?
I know in Norway they did...
And lining up like this (while not having done it myself) is probably somewhat of an experience in itself. In the Oslo SWEp1 queue lots of people were dressed up as Darth Vader or Darth Maul or Luke or Leia or whatever...they seemed to make a good time out of it.
I think the release dates are the same. The trailer out in the US has Dec. 19th on it, so it shouldn't be before yours. I think this may be true in most countries. Successive release dates don't make much sense to me.
Here in Norway, they start selling tickets to these "big" movies a month or two in advance, and they usually play up to the whole queuing deal in various ways. During the last night of the Ep1 queue, they were showing Ep4-6 on a big screen outside the theatre, held a costume competition, etc. The first screening on the opening day is usually scheduled at 00:01. Basically, it's made into a big deal by the theatres.
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Although I used the world "usually", so far Ep1 is actually the only movie in which the actual queuing process has been hyped in this way. The next will be LOTR, and I'm sure LOTR2&3 and SW2&3 will be handled similarly. Possibly Matrix2&3 as well, I'm not sure if Matrix has had time to acquire enough of a cult status yet though. The LOTR ticket sale starts on November 5th. It's cold outside already, it'll be freezing by then - at least the Ep1 release was in the summer
I also used "theatre", singular, in the first paragraph. That's because the ticket sale was limited to only one theatre in the entire country. Despite that, when I showed up at around midnight on the last night before the ticket sale started, there weren't more than about two hundred people in line before me; I got excellent tickets to the 6am screening on the opening day.
The conclusion would be that out of the almost 5 million people in my country, only about 200 cared enough about Ep1 to queue up more than 8 hours in advance, despite massive hyping by the theatres. Anyone know the statistics for the states? And is there any queue-specific hyping of the sort I described above going on over there?
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ummm. He also did the film Heavenly Creatures , which wasthe first time people noticed Kate Winslet. It was a shocking film based on a true story of two childhood friends who drifted into a fanstasy world and commited murder.
The film is quite critically acclaimed I might add, and has been the reason I have had trust in PJ's ability to direct LOTR.
Although the movie opens on December 19th, these people are not lining up for a two-month wait. The ticket pre-sale starts next Tuesday, so it's more like 4 or 5 days.
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