Peter Jackson posted the final behind-the-scenes video blog documenting the shooting of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. In an article posted on The Hollywood Reporter, Jackson commented nervously that the film is scheduled to premiere in his home country of New Zealand on November 28, two days after the film is set to be completed. In this [...]
Animal wranglers working on the set of The Hobbit recently came forth and said that the film’s production resulted in the deaths of twenty seven animals used for filming. Director Peter Jackson and his team have denied these allegations, stating that a hefty amount of time and money went towards ensuring the animals were well taken care [...]
The Hobbit is still in publicity overdrive as those behind the trilogy’s first film gear up for its December release. Today, new stills from the film debuted alongside a perhaps more exciting release: the full version of the chilling “Song of the Misty Mountain” featured as a dwarf-sung cover in the Hobbit trailers, performed by Neil [...]
Those closely following news on the highly anticipated Hobbit trilogy have every reason to get excited. News recently broke that not only is the second film being retitled, a release date for the third film has been decided on! The Hollywood Reporter announced that the second film, previously subtitled There and Back Again, will now be [...]
The latest production video from the set of The Hobbit includes a bit of the panel at Comic-Con, and captures the last days of principal photography, including a look at some of the new sets. Once again, we get a glimpse of the incredible team effort needed to create a movie of this scale and of [...]
Comic-Con’s Hall H was taken over during the five day event for some of the biggest movie panels in recent memory! This year’s show had exclusive title and release date reveals for five new Marvel movies, new information and footage from The Hobbit, a Godzilla movie announcement, a sequel to How To Train Your Dragon, and [...]
Exciting news surfaced today when Peter Jackson himself announced the final addition to the cast of his highly anticipated, two part adaptation of the beloved fantasy classic The Hobbit. Bill Connolly, an English born actor best known for his role in The Boondocks Saints, will play the dwarf Dain II Ironfoot, a character who most likely [...]
The Hobbit has gone digital! Tolkien’s beloved work has finally been made into an e-book, and this new enhanced edition has some seriously cool extras, including: Hi-res color images of Tolkien’s illustrations from the book Intro from Christopher Tolkien, examining the book Images of manuscript pages and unpublished illustrations Recently-discovered audio excerpt of Tolkien reading from [...]
The first production video for The Hobbit to be released after the trailer has all the familiar elements we’ve come to love. That is, Peter Jackson and crew chatting on to the viewer about all the little elements that go into creating such an epic film. Episode five’s dilemmas? How to get equipment, food, water, shelter, [...]
It certainly feels like Christmas, with all the amazing new trailers released last week. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was definitely among the most anticipated - and it didn’t disappoint. The trailer introduces all the dwarfs and shows Martin Freeman in action as Bilbo, among many other things. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey comes out on December 14, 2012. [...]
