Adaptations of The Lord of the Rings

Image: Amazon StudiosAlthough streaming services try to keep their viewing numbers secret, Amazon Studios was all too happy to crow that the premiere of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power TV series had 25 million global viewers on the day it premiered. That’s quite a lot! But as it turns out, by the time the first season ended, a shocking number of those viewers as had already given up.Uh Oh, Amazon Bought Your Favorite Robot CompanyIn a new examination of Amazon Studios, the Hollywood Reporter mentions that only 37…

Image: New Line/Warner Bros.During an investors’ call earlier today, Warner Bros. announced that it will be making more Lord of the Rings movies. No details have been released at this time, but wowie zowie. What could these possibly be? We’re already getting War of the Rohirrim, a tale focusing on the famous King of Rohan that Helm’s Deep is named for, and while something closer to home like the idea of a Hobbit adaptation that wasn’t stretched to untenable lengths sounds nice, the final movie in that trilogy is less than…

Amazon reportedly wants to see its logo on the big screen in 2023.Photo: Ink Drop (Shutterstock)Amazon must be feeling its cash burning a hole in its voluminous pockets even as the tech downturn has pummeled $1 trillion from its stock value. And even though the company is potentially kicking thousands of employees to the curb over the next few months, the tech and e-commerce giant wants to see its name up in lights as the projectors roll.Bloomberg says they talked with anonymous sources who say they’re aware of Amazon’s…

Image: Prime Video | Matt GraceLord of the Rings: Rings of Power may have wrapped up its first spectacular season, but there’s still a lot more to explore in Middle-earth. Amazon has just released an X-Ray version of its sweeping epic fantasy series—basically a behind-the-scenes overlay that will pop up on screen to give you an inside look at some of the lore, costuming, set design, and direction that took place during production. The Making of The Rings of Power will be able to pull the curtain back on what happened…

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The battle is just starting on Lord of the Rings.Image: Prime VideoThe first chapter of the latest Lord of the Rings saga is about to close and wow does it look like it’s going to be massive. At New York Comic Con, the team behind Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power unveiled a special trailer for the show’s first season finale, which debuts October 14 and things are certainly going to go out with a bang.It looks like we’ll get the culmination of several stories and mysteries that have been teased…

Image: Amazon StudiosAmazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power series has a big pedigree to live up to beyond bringing the world of author J.R.R. Tolkien to life. Warner Bros.’ Lord of the Rings film trilogy directed by Peter Jackson during the mid-2000s looms large over both the fantasy genre and this upcoming series overall. The show is said to be separate from those films, though it was confirmed years ago to be using material from the films, whatever that means.But Jackson recently told the Hollywood…