This is the fooking greatest thing I have ever read in my entire frigging life. Taken from Yahoo Movies


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8/22/03 - Now that it's been announced, it makes perfect sense, but I have to say, it never occurred to me that New Line Cinema would do it. What is it, you ask? They are returning the first two movies (as extended versions with 30+ more minutes; basically the DVD extended versions) to theaters (about 100-150 nationwide) in December, in anticipation of this film's release (see notes to the left), and then on December 16th, those theaters will present the entire trilogy as a 10+ hour event (and that's not counting the intermissions!). New Line gets massive, massive props for going this route. Yes, it's basically a massive promotion for a movie's release, but for Tolkien fans, this is probably going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see all three films back-to-back on a big screen. I would imagine there will be either massive camping out for tickets to the event (or in this modern age, just a rampage to buy the tickets online). It's true that most Tolkien fans will have seen these extended versions by December 16th, but the real difference here is the live experience, seeing Tolkien and Jackson's work as a complete epic, with the big finale being what they *haven't* seen before. I'm expecting the audiences are going to be *great* for these events; this just seems like the kind of fan experience that comes around only once a decade or so (opening day of The Phantom Menace was the last time). Again, New Line gets massive props. They are showing that they know how to make the fans very, very happy.