this interview from april of this year with matt lasorsa of new line offers some explanations for why the extended edition got pushed to december:
Logically, it would seem that it could be done sooner, especially without another Lord of the Rings film to finish; however, that hasn't been the case. Peter Jackson was quite busy with many commitments during the awards season. Since he was away from New Zealand, he could not cut an extended version of the film. Traditionally, after he cuts the film, there are months and months of work to do to complete the cut - including Howard Shore's additional score and Weta Digital's new special effects.
For the special features, many of the interviews with the cast and crew were completed during pickups for the next film, as everyone was in the same place (New Zealand). Now that all filming is complete, everyone is scattered across the world - making it more difficult to get the interviews to create bonus materials.
It would have been ideal to release it sooner, but we didn't want to compromise the quality of the DVD to get the product in stores earlier.
i prefer the glossy wow-factor of scientific american, but yeah, science news is really good too. i've never met anyone else who's even heard of it! my dad's been reading that magazine for as long as i can remember, and is constantly sending me copies of their articles.
he works for the fish and wildlife department of a big power supplier. SN's level of reporting is very appropriate for someone like him: not a professional scientist, but with a lot of scientific background.
bookfinder and ABE provide a great service as retail portals, but they're not organized enough to be at all useful as a serious bibliographic catalog. for one thing, there's no authority control. do a title search on "tom sawyer" and you get three pages of title variations listed under "mark twain", plus a half-page of listings under "samuel clemens"--and no indication of the relationships between any of these titles. and that's just the beginning of your troubles.
yeah, i'm another library science student, and i agree with some of the comments here from other library folk. cataloging books is no easy task, and there are a lot of standards that have been developed over the years. plus there already exist hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records created by professional catalogers. i think it would be really beneficial for anyone serious about a project like this to bring some librarians on board.
no, no, no, you misunderstand. bakshi has NOTHING to do with the new LOTR trilogy. he directed an animated version in 1978 called "lord of the rings" that only spanned the first half of the trilogy. part two never panned out, for financial(?) reasons.
the director for the upcoming trilogy is peter jackson. i really don't think he's the type to turn it into another "wing commander." check out "heavenly creatures."
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i prefer the glossy wow-factor of scientific american, but yeah, science news is really good too. i've never met anyone else who's even heard of it! my dad's been reading that magazine for as long as i can remember, and is constantly sending me copies of their articles.
he works for the fish and wildlife department of a big power supplier. SN's level of reporting is very appropriate for someone like him: not a professional scientist, but with a lot of scientific background.
bookfinder and ABE provide a great service as retail portals, but they're not organized enough to be at all useful as a serious bibliographic catalog. for one thing, there's no authority control. do a title search on "tom sawyer" and you get three pages of title variations listed under "mark twain", plus a half-page of listings under "samuel clemens"--and no indication of the relationships between any of these titles. and that's just the beginning of your troubles.
yeah, i'm another library science student, and i agree with some of the comments here from other library folk. cataloging books is no easy task, and there are a lot of standards that have been developed over the years. plus there already exist hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records created by professional catalogers. i think it would be really beneficial for anyone serious about a project like this to bring some librarians on board.
the director for the upcoming trilogy is peter jackson. i really don't think he's the type to turn it into another "wing commander." check out "heavenly creatures."
does anyone have a copy of the original product description that was on their website before it was taken down?
(alas, my poor karma.)
xpdf, which is GPL'd, comes with pdftotext, a simple utility to (you guessed it) convert pdf files to text.
only the 1.7 million people living in the portland metropolitan area, through which the will-AM-ette river runs.
it's not that hard. as the locals say: "it's willamette, dammit."