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2000-04-21 'LOTR' preview sees 6.6 million downloads in
first week by Dennis Sellers, dsellers@maccentral.com New Line Cinema's "The Lord of the Rings" preview footage has had a record-breaking one-week total of over 6.6 million downloads since it became available on April 7. However, not all QuickTime fans are happy with the trailer/footage. The trailer loads in a proprietary box with no means of saving it to your hard drive. Immediately following this discovery, some Mac fans mobilized into action on the QuickTime message boards and newsgroups, sharing methods of ferreting out the movie so they could save it and view it whenever they wished. (MacCentral isn't advocating this, just reporting that it happened so don't flame me.) Available exclusively in Apple's QuickTime format, the delivery of the preview was handled by the FreeFlow SM Streaming service of Akamai Technologies. During the preview's first week of availability, Akamai's global network served 8.45 terabytes of data. At the peak, Akamai's network supported 450MB of data per second. "Without Akamai's over 2,700 servers, we would not have been able to satisfy the overwhelming demand to see this behind-the-scenes footage of The Lord of the Rings," said Joe Nimziki, president of New Line Marketing, in a press release. "We are grateful that Akamai marshaled the technical resources necessary to help us pull off this record-breaking marketing coup." To view the Lord of the Rings movie preview, you'll need QuickTime 4.0. If you have it, just cruise on over to http://www.apple.com/trailers or http://www.lordoftherings.net. Akamai's FreeFlow Streaming service, delivered from the Akamai EdgeAdvantage platform, exceeds user expectations by delivering high-quality and reliable streaming media content including live events, continuous broadcasts and on-demand media, according to Dan Fraisl, vice president and general manager of streaming, Akamai. Akamai's EdgeAdvantage technology delivers content by intelligently routing requests across its distributed global network to the optimal server for each site visitor, he adds. EdgeAdvantage evaluates real-time Internet conditions, thus eliminating problems caused by server overloads and network bottlenecks, says Fraisl. New Line anticipates releasing the first installment of the trilogy of movies for "The Lord of the Rings" during the Christmas holiday season of 2001. So you've got plenty of time to read J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy before the film opens. 2000-04-19 New Trailer According to Cinescape, we will maybe see a new trailer on the big screen this summer or fall.
2000-04-17 You may have heard the following sentences from an Orc-extra at the net:
It is nonsense according to many fans (like Michael Martinez) and I agree totally. They wore chain-mail as armour. The music in the preview was from the movie the Messenger: Joan of Arc. It was written by Eric Serra (Ex. The Fifth Element)
Some more rumors about an elvish army at Helm's Deep. I have heard them before and I believe that they are true. More images from the preview have been added to my preview pictures. 2000-04-10 NEW LINE CINEMA VERIFIES APPROXIMATELY 1.7 MILLION DOWNLOADS OF EXCLUSIVE "THE LORD OF THE RINGS" PREVIEW DURING 1st DAY OF OPERATION (Los Angeles, Ca – April 10, 2000) -- More web browsers downloaded the online promotional trailer for The Lord of the Rings during its first 24-hours of availability than any other film marketing footage in history, including the online trailer for Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace, it was announced today by New Line Cinema. 1,671,000 people worldwide downloaded behind-the-scenes promotional footage of The Lord of the Rings on Friday, April 7th alone. The number has been confirmed by Apple Computer, which also counted downloads for last year’s Star Wars web extravaganza. Apple reported only 1 million downloads in the first 24-hour period that the Star Wars theatrical trailer was available online. Records on the official The Lord of the Rings site were shattered almost immediately as fans of the J.R.R. Tolkein novel began logging onto www.lordoftherings.net for exclusive behind-the-scenes access to the secretive motion picture project. More information from Galadriel New Information has arrived from the supersecret ninja spy Galadriel (in conjunction with the great site theonering.net). I now have permission to use the information. "The production will now move to Tongariro National Park for 3 weeks. What they are filming there may be of interest to you. It's the last alliance between Elves and Men They are shooting the prologue to this entire Trilogy, the fight between Elves and Men against the Enemy, the park is going to be used only for the large scale battle scenes, and not for any close up 'acting' scenes." 2000-04-07
The time has come! The preview is released! It is awesome! Use the links below to save it to your computer! Extra Large version adress: (fullscreen) Large version: (hi-res) Medium version: (med-res) Small version: (lo-res) There is short clips of many things, Gandalf, Boromir, the Hobbits, Sauron's eye, the Black Riders, orc armies, Legolas, Arwen and much more. See it now!! It is in the QuickTime format. |
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