‘Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Review-Bombing Leads Amazon to Suspend User Ratings Amid Record Viewership

Erling Haaland is attempting to persuade Jude Bellingham into signing for Manchester City - according to reports.

Police are considering widening their search for the remains of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett. Officers started digging on Saddleworth Moor on Friday following information supplied by an amateur sleuth who has spent years looking for the child.

A pre-inquest review has opened into the death of a prisoner at Strangeways who may have died after taking spice.

Celebrity chef Gino D'Acampo's pizza and prosecco restaurant inside Manchester's Arndale Centre has closed - but has swiftly reopened as new Italian restaurant brand Piccolo by Piccolino. The Italian TV star had launched his My Pizza and Prosecco Bar amid a blaze of publicity inside the huge Next in the shopping centre back in 2017.

Kaye Adams clapped back at an online troll following their bizarre rant over her elimination on Sunday night. The Loose Women presenter, 59, and professional partner Kai Widdrington, 27, were sent home in the first results show of the series.

A football fan tragically lost his life during a game on Sunday.

Police in the northern California city of Stockton believe they have finally found a “person of interest” in the murders of five men over the last three months.

Denise Van Outen recently enjoyed a cosy film night with her daughter Betsy and new beau Jimmy Barba. The TV favourite, 48, shared a collection of photos from the fun night, which she hosted in her garden having hired a pop-up inflatable 'igloo'. In one photo, Denise posed alongside Betsy, 12, who she shares with ex-husband Lee Mead, and Jimmy, who she started dating earlier this year following her split from fiancé Eddie Boxshall.

Zack Sharf Barry Keoghan showed up at the very end of Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” to show off a laugh that heavily suggested he was a new iteration of the Joker. Then came the official release of an extended deleted scene from the film that confirmed his Joker casting. But it turns out Keoghan never planned to become the new Joker. Instead, he sent in an unsolicited audition tape to Reeves’ team to play the Riddler when he heard about “The Batman” for the first time. The audition tape has finally been released in an official capacity online, courtesy of Keoghan via GQ UK (watch it in the video below). “I wanted to be Riddler,” Keoghan told the publication, adding that a “Batman” producer informed him not long after he sent the tape in that the role of Riddler had already been filled (first by Jonah Hill, then by Paul Dano). Four months later, the actor got a call with a different request to star in “The Batman.”

The original stars of The Lord of the Rings film series by Peter Jackson are coming together to plead for inclusivity amid a racist backlash against the series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Some viewers have expressed their discontent over the casting of people of color for the series as they believe it goes against the source material created by author J. R. R. Tolkien.

Whoopi Goldberg is slamming trolls criticizing The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and House of the Dragon over their casting choices. Some fans on social media have called out the series on Prime Video and HBO for becoming “woke” and showing people of color in the fantasy worlds originally created by J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. R. Martin.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” star Ismael Cruz Córdova is the first person of color to play an elf in a screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s groundbreaking fantasy series — and as the actor himself tells it, the public reception to his casting hasn’t been all warm and fuzzy.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power premiered on Thursday, September 1, with the first two episodes dropping on Amazon Prime Video.While the new series has teased many of the show's central characters, including familiar faces like Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) and Elrond (Robert Aramayo), both of which also appeared in Peter Jackson's film trilogy, one fan favorite with readers has been noticeably absent from the initial storyline: Círdan.Described as 'the oldest and wisest of the elves', it turns out Círdan The Shipwright won't make an appearance during these first eight episodes of season one, but fans will be happy to know that he will make his debut in season two. Disclosure: The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power co-showrunner J.D. Payne announced the fan favorite character Círdan The Shipwright will be introduced in season two of the seriesDuring a recent interview with Time, series co-showrunner J.D.

Amazon Prime Video quietly introduced a new 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime Video, a representative for the streamer confirmed to Variety. Each critique is then evaluated to determine whether it’s genuine or a forgery created by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin. The practice caught notice after the premiere of the first two episodes of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” Prime Video’s monumentally scaled fantasy series based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The series appears to have been review bombed — when trolls flood intentionally negative reviews for a show or film — on other sites like Rotten Tomatoes, where it has an 84% rating from professional critics but a 37% from user-submitted reviews. “The Rings of Power” has been fending off trolls for months, especially ones who take issue with the decision to cast actors of color as elves, dwarves, harfoots and other folk of Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth.

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of Episode 1 of Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

“The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” star Morfydd Clark revealed the intense way she prepared for her role as Galadriel — an ethereal warrior elf that was played by Cate Blanchett in the films. “When I was playing Galadriel, the stunt team said, ‘You’ve got a problem because you’re used to being attacked on film,’” she told Empire about adjusting to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth fantasy world.“I would flinch a lot when people came at me.

Spoilers ahead for the first two episodes of “The Rings of Power,” now streaming on Prime Video. “The Rings of Power” is set around a thousand years before Frodo (Elijah Wood) and his Fellowship took their journey in the movies. So, very few characters are old enough to still be kicking around.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez looked the part at the London premiere of Amazon’s “Rings of Power.” The project is the streamer’s most expensive series to date and a passion project of Bezos, who’s been a lifelong fan of the series of books written by J.R.R. Tolkien.Ismael Cruz Córdova: How the ‘Rings of Power’ star sacrificed it all to make his dreams come trueJeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez enjoyed the premiere screening event of ‘The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power’Bezos and Sanchez wore their most elegant looks, with Bezos wearing a black and simple suit and Sanchez wearing a red gown with a slit in the leg. She paired the look with silver jewelry and heels.Sanchez was there for Bezos, who was likely feeling some of the pressure of the event and the responsibility of taking on the reins on one of the most treasured stories of all time.

notoriously hefty$715 million they reportedly spent on the first season budget and rights to the “Lord of the Rings” franchise.The money certainly shows onscreen: “The Rings of Power” is a dazzling, gorgeous, thrilling trip to Middle Earth.[Warning: Some minor spoilers ahead.]Premiering Sept. 1 at 9 p.m.