Are you as excited about the new Hobbit trailer as we are? Apparently, the people at Google are also big fans because they installed a little Lord of the Rings Easter egg in Google Maps.
Now that’s he’s officially not doing The Hobbit, Guillermo del Toro is focusing on his other project, the inSANE video game trilogy developed in partnership with THQ. It’s not going to be released until 2013 which gives them plenty of time to perfect the game, on which del Toro will serve as external creative director. There will [...]
For a long time, it may have seemed as if Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit was never going to actually happen, but now we not only know the identities of the main cast, but also who makes the cameras that the movies will be shot with. Red Digital Cameras has announced that Jackson will use “at [...]
It’s finally official: The Hobbit will stay in New Zealand after all.
The fight to keep The Hobbit in New Zealand may be getting more intense, but there’s a limit to how far it’ll go, according to New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. Key spoke to reporters before today’s meeting between the government and Warner Bros. executives and told them “I’ve made it quite clear (to Warner [...]
Now that Warner Bros has finally confirmed The Hobbit movie adaptations, and Peter Jackson has finally confirmed that he will, as expected, direct the movies, it’s time for the confirmation of the last everyone-knows-it’s-true bit of information about the much-anticipated fantasy project: Martin Freeman is Bilbo Baggins.
If this report from the New Zealand press is to be believed, union disputes have forced Warner Bros. to pull production of The Hobbit out of New Zealand, although its new home has not been disclosed. A statement from Peter Jackson and partner Fran Walsh reads in part,
Here’s something interesting: At the end of an interview with Simon Pegg in yesterday’s Observer newspaper in the UK, it appears that Pegg confirms a rumor about his friend, actor Martin Freeman:
File this under “Surprising no-one,” but it’s finally official: Warner Bros’ movie adaptation of The Hobbit has finally been officially greenlit, and Peter Jackson will direct. With this non-news finally known, expect an announcement about whether or not the production will stay in New Zealand following union troubles sooner rather than later.
Will he direct or won’t he direct? Or, is this movie even coming out at all? It seems that nothing has ever been set in stone for The Hobbit, and despite reports on Saturday in the LA Times and the New York Times that the movie was just a few signatures away from approval, it [...]
If losing its director, its studio going into bankruptcy and unions going to war over whether or not the production would be biased to Australian actors wasn’t enough, now one of the effects houses that would’ve been used for The Hobbit has been seriously damaged in a fire. Now will you believe that the movie [...]
