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Excerpt from the Live Event for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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The end of this year brings with it the second instalment in Peter Jackson’s second Middle-earth trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The first instalment, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, has taken more than a billion dollars to date around the box office. Following its theatrical success, the film was released a few weeks [...]




Ian McKellen Interview – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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In our opinion, you can never have too much of The Hobbit so here’s the third of our numerous interviews with the cast and film-makers from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey of it’s release on Friday 14th December. Tonight is the UK premiere so there was no better time to give you Sir Ian McKellen [...]




Director Peter Jackson Interview – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Here’s the second of our Hobbit interviews and it’s with the Director Peter Jackson. Jackson has tirelessly worked to bring these Hobbit movies to the big screen in amongst the problems that MGM had and it’s so wonderful to finally see these junket interviews happening before the movie is released this Friday 14th December. In [...]




Fabulous Character Gallery Released for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Warner Bros. have released these rather lovely new character images of many of the cast of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey which is set for release December this year and is the first of three movies that will form The Hobbit movies based on the book by J.R.R. Tolkien. Peter Jackson directs with a cast [...]




One Journey Ends…and Another Begins: The Hobbit Production Video Blog #8 is here

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Making an appearance at Comic-Con is an annual essential for Peter Jackson and his merry band of Hobbits, Dwarfs and errant wizards and this year was no exception, allowing long-expectant fans the chance to catch up with the team before the unexpected journey unfurls itself at our cinemadoorstep before the end of the year. As [...]




Peter Jackson Talks the Possibility of Making The Hobbit a Trilogy

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Last week, Peter Jackson officially announced that he’d wrapped the final shooting block on production of The Hobbit, which has been shooting its two instalments back-to-back out in New Zealand. Jackson has taken the film to Comic-Con this weekend, and has now been talking about a very interesting possibility. He says that they’ve not been [...]




Wondercon 2012: The Hobbit Panel LIVEBLOG

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The first film in Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit is due out at the end of this year and there are few films as anticipated as this. Jackson reunites with many of his Lord of the Rings cast and crew for a story of a Hobbit, a quest and the requisite dragons, [...]




Great New Image From The Hobbit Sees Bilbo Amongst The Dwarves

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We’re now less than eleven months away from Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s original novel, followed by The Hobbit: There And Back Again next December. We’ve seen and heard some fantastic things from the new film already, most recently including [...]




JRR Tolkien’s Mirkwood being adapted for the big screen

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While Peter Jackson gets ready to wow us all again with The Hobbit, plans are in the making for a movie about The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings author himself, J.R.R. Tolkien, THR report. The film will be based on the novel Mirkwood, written by Steven Millard, who has just signed a deal [...]




Sylvester McCoy Confirms Hobbit Role While New Zealanders Protest Against Project’s Uprooting

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Following the excellent news that Martin Freeman is to follow in the big hairy footsteps of Ian Holm and portray Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s two film adaptation of The Hobbit a new piece of casting, which some would call inspired, has landed on the doorstep of the internet. Our friends at Bleeding Cool had [...]




The Hobbit Casting Announced – Martin Freeman is Bilbo

Peter Jackson has announced the first round of casting for his much anticipated return to Middle Earth for The Hobbit, and the news that most expected was confirmed as Jackson named Martin Freeman as the man who would be Bilbo Baggins. Taking over from Ian Holm, Freeman clearly made an excellent impression on the director [...]




The Hobbit Officially Greenlit; Peter Jackson Will Direct

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The NY Times have confirmed that The Hobbit has officially been greenlit, with Peter Jackson returning as director. The news comes months of disruptions, legal battles, the budget and union action in New Zealand, but it seems Warner Bros. have finally secured the rights from MGM and will release the first installment on December 19, 2012, with [...]




The Hobbit Without Gandalf? Ian McKellen on Waiting for Bilbo

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Since the unexpected kick in the Bilbos that was Guillermo del Toro’s departure from the director’s chair of the two Hobbit films there’s been speculation heaped upon speculation as to the state of the film and the identity of the incumbent director. David Yates? No. Neill Blomkamp? No. Peter Jackson? Maybe, and while sets are [...]




First Look at The Hobbit’s Shire Set

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While some Tolkien fans might have been worrying about the prospect of the new The Hobbit adaptation turning into a rudderless ship in the aftermath of the departure of Guillermo Del Toro, it seems the production doesnt need a director in place to have its wheels set firmly in motion and already building up a head [...]




Production of The Hobbit Begins in June?

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Great news for fans of the Lord of the Rings who are desperate for The Hobbit to be made.. Production Weekly have just tweeted that ‘Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is due to begin a 14 month production schedule this June in New Zealand.’ The one issue may come as MGM [...]