Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series will reportedly focus on young Aragorn

Posted 8 years ago

By the time Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS series hits the small screen they will have spent about a billion dollars bringing it to life, and there are an equal amount of directions the show could take. The exact details...

Details surrounding Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series reveal themselves

Posted 8 years ago

Not long ago, in a shire far, far away, we'd learned that Amazon's planned LORD OF THE RINGS series would cost the studio upward of $500 million to produce. Now, while that amount of coin would certainly pay for a...

Ian McKellen still wants to play Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings show

Posted 8 years ago

After six movies across 13 years and an Oscar nomination for playing the role, you’d think Sir Ian McKellen would be done playing Gandalf from the LORD OF THE RINGS series. At the very least he must be okay with...

Peter Jackson says Weinstein made him blacklist Ashley Judd & Mira Sorvino

Posted 8 years ago

Once upon a time, Peter Jackson pitched his ambitious THE LORD OF THE RINGS project to Miramax, which at the time consisted of two movies instead of three. The project was in development at Miramax for over a year, during...

Lord of the Rings TV series gets multi-season commitment from Amazon

Posted 8 years ago

Despite what many people think, I do like to remain optimistic about things. I've been proven wrong too many times to think that initial impressions will always be the correct ones. So while my love of the original Peter Jackson...

Sean Astin on Amazon’s potential Lord of the Rings TV series

Posted 9 years ago

Perhaps hoping for their very own Game of Thrones, it was revealed last Friday that Amazon Studios was in negotiations with Warner Bros. and the J.R.R. Tolkien estate to develop a Lord of the Rings TV series. Not everyone was...

The Lord of the Rings may live again as an Amazon TV series

Posted 9 years ago

I had serious doubts that J.R.R. Tolkein's "The Lord of the Rings" series could ever successfully make the transition to the big-screen, but what Peter Jackson was able to achieve with THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, THE TWO TOWERS, and...

Warner Bros. and Tolkien Estate settle epic Lord of the Rings lawsuit

Posted 9 years ago

Film rights disputes are almost always a nasty business, especially when it comes to Hollywood blockbusters the likes of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS. Today, it's being reported that Warner Bros. and the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien...

Watch our Oscar “Best Picture” Retrospective for 2004 (video)

Posted 9 years ago

In this recurring series we take a look at the Oscar nominations of years past, examining the flicks that were nominated, as well as the pic we feel got snubbed among all the other candidates. Love 'em or hate 'em,...

Exclusive: Deadpool & MST3K riff on X-Men Origins (fan-made video)

Posted 9 years ago

Before he was cashing checks and impaling people like kabobs, we first saw Wade Wilson with a face like a Ken doll’s private parts in X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE. The painful adaptation of the character haunted us for years, but now...

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