Top cast:Billy Quirk,Mary Pickford,Grace Henderson
Director:Paul Bartel
Genre:Documentary
Region:Russia
Year:2009
Storyline:An isotope analysis of the surrounding ice bores suggests that an object had been trapped in the glacier for over 18,000 years.(This was his second film for Scorsese followingMean Streets (1973), in which both De Niro and Harvey Keitel gained fame as young New York hoods.Lockwood: Oh, he's mad.He's like a madman.He seized me by the collar and dragged me out.You see, I had a dream.I thought I heard a voice calling.I reached out to close the shutter and something touched me, something cold and clinging like an icy hand.Like them,LOTR: The Return of the Kinglacked nominations in the acting categories.It was thefirstfantasy film to ever win the top Oscar prize.One of the major criticisms was that it was almost 3 1/2 hours in length.The film grossed $1 billion in just 9 weeks and 4 days, a new record.With a production budget of $94 million, and box-office gross receipts of $377.8 million (domestic) and $1.12 billion (worldwide).It was the highest-grossing (domestic and worldwide) film of the entire franchise.Set-pieces:the siege and battle at seven-tiered Minas Tirith, the spider's attack on Frodo in Shelob's Lair, the Battle of Pelennor Fields with Oliphaunts, and the last confrontation at the Black Gates of Mordor.