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Well, this is some rather cool news as everyone’s favourite Scottish Comedic legend has been announced to be joining Peter Jackson in New Zealand in The Hobbit! Connolly will play the role of Dain Ironfoot, a great dwarf warrior and cousin of Thorin Oakenshield. According to Deadline: Billy Connolly is to join the cast in [...]
At this week’s second UK premiere* for A Dangerous Method, we spoke to Viggo Mortenson about the attraction of working with David Cronenberg.He explained, “He makes what can sometimes be a very trying or difficult job, or emotionally demanding, he makes easy and fun. He never loses sight of the fact that, after all it’s [...]
We’ve been absolutely loving all the posters and images that LEGO have been releasing for their new Lord of the Rings range and tonight we have the full set of character images (which coincide with the ones we posted last week) but the highlight is the new poster or the Gollum character played by Andy [...]
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 [...]
*Advanced Plot Spoiler Warning: As you can probably guess from the title, things are going to get a little spoiler-y in a few lines, so if you’re wanting to fly fairly blind with The Hobbit, then look away now!* We first got word way back in June last year that Evangeline Lilly had been cast [...]
With Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth just on the horizon, with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey due out in December this year, and The Hobbit: There And Back Again set to come out a year later, LEGO confirmed at the end of last year that they’d picked up the rights to release sets of their [...]
For a little over half a year, we’ve been treated to some brilliant things from Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth in bringing Tolkien’s The Hobbit to life, all of which you can catch up on right here. Just before Christmas, we were given an excellent new look at the film when the first trailer hit [...]
Last night we went image crazy as USA Today released a nice new batch of images from multiple movies including Ridley Scott’s Prometheus as well as first look images from Skyfall, The Bourne Legacy and loads more. Here’s one for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey which shows us another view of Martin Freeman as Bilbo [...]
Indeed our cup runneth over with Hobbit goodness this week. Following the first look at the film with the highly anticipated trailer and poster appearing online Peter Jackson has given us another of his pre-DVD extras in the form of Production Video #5. As usual there’s much to enjoy here from Jackson and the team [...]
Vin Diesel has pretty much put rumours of a sixth and seventh Fast and the Furious film to rest this week by stepping out of the shadows to pretty much (two important words there) confirm them. Speaking on the writing process of the much touted sixth film (a process that I’m sure is ably [...]
So we’ve had the first amazing trailer and now we get the first poster for Peter Jackson’s new movie, The Hobbit. I decided to put the teaser trailer artwork in a separate post as Apple did such a terrible job getting the trailer out, it’s been an age since that went up so I thought [...]
After many years of rumours, financial hardship and a long quest to find a director we are once again walking in Middle Earth with Peter Jackson. The first trailer for The Hobbit has arrived and the long wait has been worth it, Several familiar faces return to Hobbiton and beyond with Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, [...]
We’ve had conflicting reports on time but news is that the first trailer for director Peter Jackson’s new movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be hitting the interwebs this evening. Everyone is completely buzzing about this new movie which will be released 14th December 2012 and then to be followed by Part 2, The Hobbit: [...]
Earlier this evening I put up the news that Warner Bros. had officially announced that the first trailer for The Hobbit will sit in front of Tintin in the US and no sooner had I put up the news than CBM have placed a nice new image of Martin Freeman aka Bilbo Baggins from The [...]
Warner Bros. have just announced on via their Twitter account that The Hobbit Trailer for An Unexpected Journey will sit in front of Tintin when it hits the US on the 21st December which is all well and good but the question I have is when will we be seeing it in the UK? Most [...]
Several of our writers at HeyUGuys, including our two editors, have young children, and therefore a legitimate excuse to watch Children’s TV. I, on the other hand, don’t. On the other hand, I am barely employed (and barely employable), so am far better versed in the ins-and-outs of children’s TV than I have any right [...]
Guy Ritchie’s upcoming sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is one of the films I’ve been looking forward to all year, and it’s just a matter of weeks now until we get to see it on the big screen next month. As if there weren’t enough reasons to see it already, with its impeccable [...]
On the off chance you’ve not been at a computer for several months, you might have missed out on the fact that the beloved Peter Jackson is returning to Middle-earth to bring Tolkien’s The Hobbit to life. And if you have, then you can catch up on all things Hobbit-related here. Most recently we’ve had [...]
We got the third video diary for Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth back in July, and now he’s given us the fourth instalment through his Facebook page, because he’s pretty awesome like that. In case you’ve missed them, you can catch up on all the earlier video diaries from The Hobbit and everything else surrounding [...]
Nestled a few miles west of London sits Pinewood Studios, still looking as sprightly as ever, but having today reached the grand old age of 75. And what a 75 years it has been. Though the landscape of cinema has changed beyond recognition in that time (fads have come and gone, new filming techniques have [...]
