ADVISORY/New Line Home Entertainment & TreePeople Celebrate the DVD and VHS Release of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers'.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors ADVISORY...for Monday, August 25 LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 22, 2003 Fangorn Forest--Complete with Middle-earth Processional of a Wizard, Walking Ents Ents treelike creatures who shelter and defend the friends of Frodo. [Br. Lit.: J. R. R. Tolkien Lord of the Rings] See : Trees & "Green Carpet" Celebs--Recreated For Outdoor Screening, Exclusive "First Look" At "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" WHO: Michael Badalucco Michael Badalucco (born December 20, 1957 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor most famous for his role as lawyer Jimmy Berluti on the ABC legal drama The Practice. He won the 1999 Emmy for Best Supporting Actor for his role on the aforementioned show. , Levar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957, in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an actor, director and author who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries Roots , Zooey Deschanel Zooey Claire Deschanel (born January 17, 1980) is an American actress. Biography Early life Deschanel was born in Los Angeles, California, and brought up in various international locations because of her father's work. , Leslie Grossman, Neil Patrick Harris Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an Emmy-nominated American actor. He is known for his television roles as the teenage doctor Doogie Howser, M.D. and the womanizing Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother. , Sheila Kelley, Lorenzo Lamas, Peter Reckell, Giovanni Ribisi, Richard Schiff, Jane Seymour, Sean Patrick Thomas and others. WHAT: Magical Fangorn Forest comes to life as New Line Home Entertainment celebrates the DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. and VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and honors the creation of TreePeople's Center For Community Forestry with a special outdoor event. "Given the positive message The Lord of the Rings films have about the environment and environmental responsibility, we couldn't think of a better way to launch the home theater release of The Two Towers than with an event with TreePeople," says New Line Home Entertainment President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. , Stephen Einhorn. TreePeople, an internationally renowned urban forestry organization, offers sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems, improving the neighborhoods in which we live, learn, work, and play. The new Center for Community Forestry will allow the organization to spread its message of environmental education and support to communities throughout Los Angeles. The event--to feature a wizard on a stunning white horse, an unprecedented appearance by walking tree shepherds The Ents, and a procession of celebrities carrying a forest's worth of saplings to be donated to TreePeople's Center For Community Forestry--will culminate in a special outdoor screening of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. This will be preceded by an exclusive "first look" at The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, the third and final film in the Middle-earth trilogy. -0-
WHEN: Monday, August 25th, 2003
5:00PM - 6:30PM, "Green Carpet" arrivals, Reception
6:30PM, Presentation and photo opportunity with special
appearance by the Ents
7:00PM-10:00PM, Outdoor screening of The Lord of the Rings: The
Two Towers, "first-look" at The Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King from the DVD
WHERE: Franklin Canyon Park
Coldwater Canyon Avenue and Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, California
CONTACTS:
Amy Gorton/Jennifer Sandler P&F Communications
New Line Home Entertainment Bill Douglass/Jeff Lovari
(310) 967-6536/(310) 967-6992 (212) 861-2100
amy.gorton@newline.com
jennifer.sandler@newline.com
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