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IMDb has revealed the site’s top 10 most viewed actors, films, TV shows and in production movies in the last 10 years this week. More an indication of those in Hollywood who trend on the internet than any sort of performance-based ranking, they throw up precious few surprises. Johnny Depp tops the actors no doubt [...]
London Olympia is currently playing host to the London Toy Fair 2012. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve had promotional posters for the Lord of the Rings LEGO characters but now the folks over at Blogomatic have got photos of the LEGO men themselves. These photos are of the LEGO stand rather than the [...]
Yes, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy was ten years ago but when a company brings out a poster as cool as this, it has to go up! Have you ever wondered what Aragorn might look like if he were a Lego man, no, neither have I for that matter but for anyone that has, [...]
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 [...]
Easter is nearly upon us and the clever bunnies at Warner Brothers have just released Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 on DVD and Blu–ray knowing all too well that it will be high up on everybody’s ‘to watch’ list during the holidays. So a few weeks ago, whilst you were probably fantasizing [...]
The sad, if somewhat inevitable news has come through that Paramount has pulled the plug on their epic four-year attempt to bring a new version of Frank Herbert’s celebrated sci-fi fiction novel, Dune, to the big screen. The rights to the property have now lapsed and the studio has chosen not to continue in their [...]
I’m sure we all have our own ideas on what the most profitable films of all time are, and reading this piece over at Moviefone I was half expecting to see the likes of Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch etc. How wrong I was. The piece references a list compiled by CNBC and it brings up [...]
Eagle eyed Brendon at BleedingCool has spotted that Amazon US now have Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Extednded Edition trilogy on Blu-ray available to pre-order. The box set will set you back $83.99 (£51.44) and you can pre-order it here if you live in the good old US of A. Alas no details are [...]
This Sunday Sir Christopher Lee will receive the BAFTA Fellowship at the Academy’s awards ceremony in London. He joins other recipients such as Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg and Terry Gilliam. Iconic in his role as Count Dracula in numerous Hammer horror film, his career began in 1948 and so far has seen the [...]
Now that The Hobbit has broken free from the quagmire of MGM’s financial woes and departing directors we are starting to hear more and more details of the film as it nears production and its casting has been in the news recently. In the last few days it was confirmed that Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, [...]
Casting on The Hobbit is really beginning to gain momentum now as Deadline reports that Andy Serkis has signed on the dotted line to reprise his role of Gollum. But Serkis isn’t the only original member to return. He’ll be joining Cate Blanchett and Elijah Wood, and Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf, whose return to [...]
When one the billion dollar franchise that is Pirates of the Caribbean writes you out the fourth movie, what else do you do? Go back to the other billion dollar franchise of course! Deadline have news that as well as Cate Blanchett coming back to the movie, Orlando Bloom is also close to signing a [...]
Lord of the Rings composer Howard Shore has been talking to Canadian news site The Province about his imminent return to Middle Earth for Peter Jackson’s two-part adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit. It’s nice to see Shore back with Jackson again. Their previous collaboration actually earned the composer two wins at the Academy Awards (for [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
A 2011 start for The Hobbit seems to have jumped back into limbo and not because of Guillermo del Toro departure or the lack of approval from New Line and MGM, rather it’s because of the actors . The new reason for the current Hobbit delay has to do with New Zealand actors refusing to act due to a pay [...]
Last week, Pans Labyrinth and Hellboy director Guillermo Del Toro dropped a bombshell when he revealed that he has resigned his position as helmer of the two Hobbit movies. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, directed by Peter Jackson, made a combined total of $3 Billion at the worldwide box office and each movie sits [...]
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 [...]
