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unusual facts about ''Lord of the Rings'' films



Canada–New Zealand relations

Whale Rider won then People's Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival in 2002 and nine out of the ten top grossing centres in North America for New Zealand's Lord of the Rings were in Canada.

Carlton Draught: Big Ad

Big Ad parodies the visual style of battle sequences in such films as Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy with sweeping, larger-than-life panoramas of rugged mountain terrain.

Carry On Abroad

Carry On Abroad is the twenty-fourth in the series of Carry On films to be made, released in 1972.

Carry On Again Doctor

Carry On Again Doctor is the eighteenth in the series of Carry On films to be made.

Carry On Behind

Carry On Behind is the twenty-seventh in the series of Carry On films to be made, and was released in 1975.

Cooperative board game

Early developers of popular cooperative board games include Jim Deacove of Family Pastimes (inventor of Max the Cat) and Ken Kolsbun of Child and Nature (inventor of Save the Whales.) In 2000, Reiner Knizia published Lord of the Rings which influenced a number of subsequent titles, including Shadows Over Camelot, and Battlestar Galactica.

Dennis Gassner

He was the production designer for the 22nd and 23rd James Bond films: Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, which were released in 2008 and 2012.

Edward Wyke Smith

J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is known to have read, The Marvellous Land of Snergs to his children.

Glen Schofield

Moving to EA Redwood Studios as general manager of the company's Visceral Games, he collaborated with Bret Robbins, including the popular Lord of the Rings video series and 007: From Russia with Love.

Great Scott

As a distinctive but inoffensive exclamation, it has been widely used as a catchphrase in popular fiction, including the works of Mark Twain, the Rathbone–Bruce Sherlock Holmes films (said by Dr. Watson), Silver Age comics (especially Superman), the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Back to the Future films (Dr. Emmett Brown).

Hornsea

Adrian Rawlins, the actor best known for playing Arthur Kidd in The Woman in Black (1989) and James Potter in the Harry Potter films currently lives in Hornsea.

Loaded Weapon 1

The film mainly spoofs the first three Lethal Weapon films, as well as other films that include Basic Instinct, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Rambo, The Silence of the Lambs, Wayne's World and 48 Hrs..

Martin Taras

Taras also served as animator and/or designer for television programs such as Batfink, Spider-Man (The 1967 series), Josie and the Pussycats, Super Friends; and for theatrical motion pictures such as Fritz The Cat, Lord of the Rings, and Wizards.

NeoPlanet

Throughout 2000, NeoPlanet garnered partnerships to market and distribute branded browsers with major companies in the entertainment, computer manufacturing and sports arenas, including Universal Studios, Interscope/Geffen/A&M Records, USA Networks, MTV, Lord of the Rings, TV Guide, Hewlett Packard, Carolina Hurricanes and Phoenix Coyotes.

Poongsan

Tim Starnes, whose credits include The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and the second and third of the Lord of the Rings franchise, edited the soundtrack.

R. K. Films

R.K. Films produced many films in the next few decades, including Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai (1960), Mera Naam Joker (1970), Bobby (1973), Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978), Prem Rog (1982) and Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985), Raj Kapoor's last film.

The music team of Shankar Jaikishan also worked frequently on R.K. Films productions during this period.

His younger brother Rajeev Kapoor directed PremGranth in 1996, the commercial failure but successful Aa Ab Laut Chalen (1999) the Kapoors have made no new R.K. productions.

Kapoor appeared in 15 R.K. films with Nargis and travelled around the world with her to promote the studio's films.

Many R.K. Films movies featured Kapoor opposite actress Nargis.

That's Carry On!

That's Carry On! is a compilation of the highlights of the Carry On films and it is the 29th entry in the series.

The Oxford English Centre

Among those who have lived and worked in the local area are the author of Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien, also Iris Murdoch, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Philip Pullman, Crime writers PD James and Colin Dexter (author of the Inspector Morse series), the poet Philip Larkin, and more recently novelist and screenwriter Ian McEwan (Atonement).


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