The Internet Movie Database reports:

An employee of the Odeon theater chain in the U.K. has posted a message on a Lord of the Rings website disclosing that the chain has been notified that the three extended versions of the Rings films will be distributed to theaters in October, ahead of their DVD release in December. Another employee of a theater in Denmark said that his managers received a message from the films’ distributors noting that the three extended versions will be shipped to “a select number of cinemas” in Denmark in “mid-October.”

If true, this gets a big “Woo hoo!!”