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‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Premiere Roundup

Posted by on November 19, 2014 at 4:15 am

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Catch up with what’s happening where, with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Roundup.

World Premiere in London
The world premiere will be on Monday 1 December, 2014 at the ODEON, Leicester Square, London.  Cast and collaborators from both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogies will be there including Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Richard Armitage (Thorin), Martin Freeman (Bilbo), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Lee Pace (Thranduil) and Luke Evans (Bard).

Others attending according to Be the Red Carpet are Aidan Turner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Serkis, Stephen Fry, Sylvester McCoy, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, John Bell, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Adam Brown, Jed Brophy and Billy Boyd.

For those of you who can’t be there, the event will be live streamed. Watch it on  Warner Brothers UK and send in your questions to the cast using #OneLastTime.

Warner Brothers are running a competition for tickets to the world premiere for UK residents 

Competitions to win tickets to the world premiere include:

First Book and Evangeline Lilly
HeyUGuys/Lynx
Cineworld Unlimited
Virgin Mobile

Added 20 Nov: Heatworld
Added 21 Nov: Warner Bros Belgium

New Zealand Advanced Screening
The Roxy Cinema in Miramar will hold an advanced screening on Tuesday 2 December, 2014 for fans, cast and crew members. Richard Taylor will be among the guests according to Scoop.

French Premiere
The French premiere will be at the Le Grand Rex in Paris on Thursday 4 December, 2014. Guests include director Peter Jackson along with Martin Freeman (Bilbo) and Richard Armitage (Thorin). Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 19 November at 10 am.

Canadian Premiere
Toronto will host the Canadian premiere on Saturday 6 December. Lee Pace (Thranduil), Peter Jackson and Philippa Boyens are on ETalkCTV that day, so it’s fair to assume they’ll be at the premiere.  (The Hobbit premiere in 2012 was at Scotiabank theatre.)

Here are several competitions to win tickets for the premiere and these mention a red carpet event.

Competitions for tickets include:
Purehmv
Tsn radio
EB Games
Virgin Mobile

Mexican Premiere
Warner Brothers Mexico have announced that Luke Evans (Bard) and Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel) will be guests at the premiere at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City 0n 6 December, 2014

Brazilian Screening
Richard Armitage (Thorin) will introduce a screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies at Comic Con Experience, São Paulo, on 7 December, 2014 at 10.30 am. Tickets are available from Comic Con Experience.

US Premieres
The US premiere is in Los Angeles on 9 December. Guests include Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Orlando Bloom, Dean O’Gorman, Peter Hambleton, Mark Hadlow, John Callen, Graham McTavish, Stephen Hunter, Jed Brophy, William Kircher, Manu Bennett, Billy Boyd, composer Howard Shore,  2nd unit director Andy Serkis, writer/ producers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens and writer/producer/director Peter Jackson. The premiere will be at The Dolby Theatre and the red carpet begins at 6.30 pm.

The Hobbit: BOTFA opens in cinemas in the UK on 12 December and in the US on 17 December, 2014.

 

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