LEGO Release More Lord of the Rings Character Images + New Gollum Poster

LEGO Gollum Poster

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 [...]

Evangeline Lilly Reveals Details About Her Character Created Especially For The Hobbit

Evangeline Lilly

*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 [...]

Great New Poster Of Legolas Released For The Lord Of The Rings LEGO Set

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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 [...]

A Nice New Image from The Hobbit Features Martin Freeman on His Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit - Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins

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 [...]

Performance Capture: Why Andy Serkis Deserves a Slap on the Back

Andy Serkis as Gollum

Written by Nick Goundry From ape leader Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes through lovable rogue Captain Haddock in Tintin, back to tragic halfling Gollum in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit films; it’s been a good year for Andy Serkis. There’s a campaign afoot for a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his role in [...]

Merry Christmas from Hobbiton – The Hobbit Production Video #5

The Hobbit Poster

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 [...]

The Teaser Trailer Artwork for The Hobbit

The Hobbit Poster

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 [...]

The First Trailer for The Hobbit is Here!

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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​, [...]

New Image of Martin Freeman in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit - Martin Freeman

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 [...]

MUST WATCH: Elijah Wood, Martin Freeman, Fighting Dwarves, And 3D In The Hobbit Production Video Diary – Part 4

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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 [...]

Exclusive Interview: John Rhys Davies Talks War of Resistance, Indy 5 + Returning to The Hobbit?

David Sztypuljak & John Rhys Davies

Last week, I got to speak to a man who has been in some of the most well known films of all time and who I’ve admired watching on the big screen for over 30 years. That man is John Rhys Davies who has starred in Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Lord of the [...]

Richard Armitage as Thorin – New pic from The Hobbit

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Richard Armitage’s Thorin Oakenshield is the latest of the cast from The Hobbit to be revealed straight from the set of Peter Jackson’s film. I appreciate this way of introducing the ‘first look’ to each of the characters in this way as opposed to a blurry telephoto lens shot from a few miles away. This way [...]

The Hobbit Gives us More Dwarves – Balin and Dwalin

The Hobbit - Ken Stott as Balin and Graham McTavish as Dwalin

We’ve been absolutely loving all the dwarf images released from The Hobbit and now this Friday afternoon, we get to meet a couple more! Time have given us the first look at Balin and Dwalin played by Ken Stott and Graham McTavish. Dwarf Lords in their own right, Balin and Dwalin are close relatives of [...]

More Dwarves from The Hobbit are revealed, including James Nesbitt as Bofur

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More dwarves on display tonight as the slow, but welcome, drip of images introducing the characters we will no doubt grow to love in Peter Jackson’s two film adaptation of The Hobbit continues. UK readers will be pleased to see one James Nesbitt front and centre here as Bofur (alongside Stephen Hunter as Bombur and [...]

Another Two Dwarves from The Hobbit – Dean O’Gorman as Fili and Aidan Turner as Kili

The Hobbit - Dean O'Gorman as Fili and Aidan Turner as Kili

MSN have just released a brand new image showing us two more Dwarves from Peter Jackson’s new movie, The Hobbit. This image follows those that we posted last week showing Jed Brophy as Nori, Adam Brown as Ori, Mark Hadlow as Dori, John Callen as Oin and Peter Hambleton as Gloin. Today we get to [...]

Two More Dwarves from the Hobbit – John Callen as Oin and Peter Hambleton as Gloin

The Hobbit - John Callen as Oin and Peter Hambleton as Gloin

I love the marketing campaign that Warner Bros. are using for The Hobbit as they’re really involving the fans giving us as much of a look at what we can expect as they possible can yet without giving too much away. We’ve seen part 1 of director, Peter Jackson’s video diary, a few images from [...]

First Look at The Hobbit’s Dwarves

The Hobbit Dwarves

It’s always exciting to get a new report from the set of The Hobbit and today’s surprise is the first look at some of the Dwarves from Peter Jackson’s film. Here we have Jed Brophy, Adam Brown and Mark Hadlow as the three brothers Dori, Nori and Ori. The film’s Facebook page gave up the [...]

Two New Images From The Hobbit Show Gandalf And Bilbo In Bag End

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We were treated last week to the first official images from the set of The Hobbit, currently filming in New Zealand, and got our first look at Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Sir Ian McKellen reprising his role as Gandalf the Grey. Then at the start of the week, we saw the cover of [...]

The Hobbit Part 1 & 2 Get Titles?

I love it when news like this breaks, especially when it’s for a movie that has so much weight on it’s shoulders following The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Peter Jackson starts shooting The Hobbit (which is going to be two movies) in New Zealand on 21st March and speculation on the titles of the [...]

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 [...]