Who ever made this deserve a raise
December 4, 2012 Leave a comment
Seriously this just shows how awesome and creative people are. I could never build it as cool as this. I would think about doing it but it really would never look like that.
First look at Smaug from the hobbit
November 30, 2012 Leave a comment
“The trouble with redesigning dragons I’ve found is… you very quickly can go into science fiction territory, and I don’t want to do that,” the filmmaker said. “I want to present the most venal, scary, decrepit, nasty dragon I possibly can.”
Gigantic Gollum at Wellington Airport in New Zealand
October 26, 2012 Leave a comment
A tired but jubilant Weta crew unveiled their new Gollum statue at a press function at Wellington Airport this morning. Working almost around the clock for three days, Gollum was hoisted up overnight to hover over diners at the airport’s main lounge. The 13m sculpture was designed and produced by Richard Taylor and Weta Workshop supervisors
Rob Gillies and Sarah Morris. Richard made a short speech to thank the team that made the incredibly realistic sculpture – a testament not only to their talent and hard work, but also to the technology and skills Weta has developed. He also thanked the “excellent” team at Wellington Airport, who have been a pleasure to work with in creating something that would bring delight to Wellington’s visitors. Airport CEO Steve Sanderson said the airport was proud to work with Weta and have such a magnificent sculpture on display. “Everyone will be amazed when they enter the terminal.”
Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown was also there. She confessed to being a true Tolkien fan. “I was given one of those paperback copies of LOTR for Christmas when I was 12. That was a very, very quiet Christmas as I read my way through those books!”
The Hobbit Trailer #2 (or I am Peter Jackson and I am going to do what I want and don’t care what people think)
September 19, 2012 Leave a comment
Seriously what the hell is Galadriel doing there and I guess at some point legolas shows up at some point and now they will be 3 movies because the Hobbit was a really long book.
Really P.J as great as L.OT.R was even though you left out the true ending on the third film which was my favorite part of the book. The Hobbit does NOT need to be 3 films and how dare you reimagine what tolkien wrote. It is a classic for a reason and just because you don’t like certain aspects of the book it doesn’t give you any right to change it!
I understand you want to make as much money as you can and I will most likely go see them because I love the books. No this P.J what your doing in my opinion is wrong and deep down you know I am right.
Behold The Goblin King from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
September 7, 2012 Leave a comment
A French Tolkien site has laid its hands on a couple of very intriguing images that may reveal Barry Humphries’ Great Goblin and one of his minions. As you can imagine, they look appropriately gruesome, and its not the image above.
Here’s the English translation of the description from the German action figure leak which we understand from Herr-der-Ringe to be true:
The Goblin King is a huge, grotesquely bloated monster that in the years of his tyrannical rule over the miserable inhabitants of the Goblin town grew fat and flabby. The Goblin town is a collection of skew-whiff ramshackle huts deep in the caves of the Misty Mountains. He commands a bunch of foul, polluted, with scars and ulcers studded goblins.
Basically, they are bandits, they live by what they can pick up from passengers on the passes through the mountains. The Goblin King and his followers manage to capture Bilbo and the dwarves. The Goblin King is more wily and smarter than it seems. He takes pleasure in torturing his prisoners — he almost succeeds to finish off Thorin Oakenshield and his companions.
The Goblin King
The Goblin King
And his minions
Notice the resemblance in picture below from the very first Hobbit production video
Third HOBBIT Film gets a Title and Release Date!
August 31, 2012 Leave a comment
Warner Bros. and MGM have officially announced a release date in the summer of 2014 for the third Hobbit film, just six months behind part two. Instead of making us wait until December, we’re going to be given There and Back Again on July 18th.
What’s more, the studios say that they’ve settled on The Desolation of Smaug as the title for the middle chapter. That gives us An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and then There and Back Again – much as we were more recently expecting.
The summer release date is the big surprise here. Seems to land right on Comic-Con, though, which means I might be rather too busy to catch it on opening night.
Here’s the full press release.
Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures jointly announced today that the final film in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation of the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, now titled “The Hobbit: There and Back Again,” will be released worldwide on July 18, 2014. All three films in the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.
The Studios also announced the title of the second installment in the franchise, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” which will be released on December 13, 2013. The first film in the trilogy, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” opens this holiday season, on December 14, 2012. Shot in 3D 48 frames-per-second, the trilogy of films will be released in High Frame Rate (HFR) 3D, other 3D formats, IMAX and 2D.
Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, stated, “We wanted to have a shorter gap between the second and third films of ‘The Hobbit’ Trilogy. Opening in July affords us not only the perfect summer tentpole, but fans will have less time to wait for the finale of this epic adventure.”
Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, added, “‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’ will be an action spectacle and an emotional conclusion for this already much-anticipated trilogy. Opening in the summer will maximize playability for what promises to be an event film for fans the world over.”
From Academy Award(R)-winning director Peter Jackson, the trilogy of films is set in Middle-earth 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar(R)-winning “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
The screenplay for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” the first film in the trilogy, is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro. Jackson is also producing the films, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.
Under Jackson’s direction, all three movies are being shot in digital 3D using the latest camera and stereo technology. Additional filming, as with principal photography, is taking place at Stone Street Studios, Wellington, and on location around New Zealand.
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and the two remaining films in the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television licensing, being handled by MGM.
7 New Character Images From THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
August 31, 2012 Leave a comment
Taken from the upcoming 2013 Annual for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Twitter user @JonasRJakobsen has sent over these great new character images from the film which will see Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated return to Middle Earth.
Peter Jackson returns to Middle-Earth in December, this time adapting J.R.R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit. Originally set to be split into just two films, it was revealed earlier this month that there will now be THREE instalments. Seems like an awful lot for a reasonably short book, but the director reportedly had enough footage in order to stretch it out a little further and it’s thought that he may even delve into some of Tolkein’s other books in order to bridge the gap between these films and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. Below are a selection of new character images from the film, uploaded by Twitter’s @JonasRJakobsen.
Check out the 3D Glasses for THE HOBBIT!!!
August 1, 2012 Leave a comment
The first movie, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, is set for release on December 14th. The second film, called The Hobbit: There An Back Again, is set to be released I. theaters on Dec. 13th, 2013. The third film is rumored to be in theaters in the summer of 2014.
What does everyone think of theses glasses?
