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The HeyUGuys Interview: James Nesbitt on The Hobbit

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Actor James Nesbitt has been a mainstay of British TV fgor many years, breaking out of his ensemble work in the lead of Steven Moffat’s underrated Jekyll mini series in 2007. As the jaunty dwarf Bofur in Peter Jackson’s triology of films based on The Hobbit he brings a lightness to Middle-earth, one rarely glimpsed [...]




The HeyUGuys Interview: Richard Armitage on The Hobbit and Thorin’s Revenge

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Coming into a world so established as that of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth must be an intimidating task particularly as the character of Thorin, so central to drama of the story being told in The Hobbit. Richard Armitage is well known on these shores as a leading player in the BBC’s  long running spy drama Spooks [...]




The HeyUGuys Interview: Andy Serkis on The Hobbit, Directing and The Imaginarium

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Andy Serkis is as much a part of the story of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings movies as Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Phillipa Boyens. The actor returns as Gollum in the first of Jackson’s adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit as well as stepping into new territory as second unit director for [...]




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 [...]




The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey crosses $1bn. Worldwide

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We’ve all been expecting it to, it’s just been a matter of when. And now Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has finally done it. It is the fifteenth film to take more than a billion dollars around the world. There were three new additions to the list last year, kicking off with Joss [...]




The Hobbit: There and Back Again pushed to December 2014

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It was last summer that we got confirmation that Peter Jackson and Warner Bros. would be turning the original two-film plan for The Hobbit into a trilogy. The first instalment arrived in our theatres in December last year, and the original plan was to follow The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey up with The Hobbit: The [...]




The HeyUGuys Interview: VFX Master Joe Letteri on The Hobbit and why 48fps is the future

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When it comes to cinematic technology Peter Jackson has always been a resourceful filmmaker, keen to push the boundaries of what is possible on screen. From his early films the creation of a visual landscape has been of paramount importance. His early films such as Heavenly Creatures and The Frighteners are perfect examples of this. [...]




Best Makeup at the Oscars – Looper, Les Misérables, Men in Black 3 & More top Shortlist

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The Oscars are just over two months away, and the awards season is in full swing as we head towards the end of the year. We’ve had the shortlists in a handful of categories already – Best Animated Feature, Best Visual Effects, Best Documentary, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song – and now the [...]




New TV Spot for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – ‘Loyalty, Honour.’

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is finally arriving in cinemas this weekend. Here in the UK, it has hit the big screen a day early and is now playing in theatres, with its US release date set for today. The anticipation is buzzing for Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth, and I’m looking forward to seeing [...]




The HeyUGuys Interview: Co-writer and Producer Phillippa Boyens on The Hobbit

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The world and his warg will be beating a path to the nearest cinema to catch up with Gandalf, Bilbo and the rest of the gang from Middle-Earth for the first of Peter Jackson’s new film trilogy. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey finds us back with Jackson over a decade later and despite the new [...]




The Hobbit UK Premiere Report

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At HeyUGuys we love film premieres. We even love them in December, when it’s freezing cold and everyone just wants to be inside. That’s why we go out and cover them for you. Of course, once in a while, things don’t go according to plan, and so last night we ended up with lots of [...]




Richard Armitage Interview – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Richard Armitage’s career has been going from strength to strength and it’s no wonder that Director Peter Jackson cast the up and coming British actor for the role of Thorin (which we find out means ‘a darer’ in Elvish) in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of three movies in this latest franchise. We’ve [...]




High Frame Rate: An Unexpected Journey Through The Hobbit’s 48 Frames Per Second Technology

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The Hobbit is finally upon us, and with it, the next step (or misstep) in tentpole movies – 48 Frames Per Second. Even before the film is released, we’re hearing complaints – the most common being that it looks like video and that it causes motion sickness – while exhibitors haven’t exactly embraced the technology [...]




Andy Serkis Interview – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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All this week we’ve been smashing out interviews with the cast and filmmakers of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and today is no exception. We still have 3 interviews after this one to deliver for your viewing pleasure and this time it’s a returning character in the form of Andy Serkis. Serkis has become The [...]




New Clip from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – ‘I Wasn’t Talking to You’

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is finally arriving in theatres this weekend, and the anticipation is naturally running on high. Peter Jackson’s original trilogy stormed the box office three years in a row, and now his prequel trilogy is set to do the same over the next two and a half years. The film arrives [...]




Watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Royal UK Premiere Live Stream

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This evening, London’s Leicester Square plays host to possibly the biggest premiere of the year (although they’ll have to go quite a job to make it bigger than the Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part II!). We’ll be there along with thousands of others to see the cast and film-makers responsible for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [...]




Interview: Aiden Turner & James Nesbitt talk The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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Continuing our coverage of Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-Earth with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey we have another interview with some of the cast. In casting the many dwarves who are part of the Company of Thorin Oakenshield Jackson recruited a mixture of experienced and rising talent, embodied perfectly in Aiden Turner and James Nesbitt. [...]




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 [...]




Martin Freeman Interview – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

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There’s a small low-budget movie coming out on Thursday called The Hobbit this Thursday 14th December. We’ve all been looking forward to this, the first part of the Peter Jackson’s new prequel to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy for years and it’s finally here. We’ve written over 150 posts on this movie over the [...]