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Freeman to Feature in Svengali Film

Martin Freeman is taking a break from filming The Hobbit to star in Svengali, a comedy film about the music business reports tubefilter news.   Production started in London this week on this story of […]

Sean Bean Talks “Rings” on Jonathan Ross

Sean Bean, who played Boromir in The Lord of the Rings, was on The Jonathan Ross Show on Saturday, February, 25. He was there to promote his new film, Cleanskin, but he talked a lot […]

Bret McKenzie wins an Oscar for Muppet Song

Bret McKenzie won  Best Original Song at the Academy awards yesterday.  His song ‘Man or Muppet’ from The Muppet movie won over Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown and Siedah Garrett’s ‘Real in Rio’ from the animated feature Rio reports Stuff.NZ McKenzie […]

Hobbit Actors in NZ Arts Fest. video

    Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Andy Serkis and Bret McKenzie are just some of the actors from The Hobbit who have joined with others to make a crowd-created Shakespeare speech for the New Zealand International Arts […]

Happy Birthday, Sean Astin!

Today is Sean Astin’s birthday! It’s likely that you know him as Samwise the Brave from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, though you may have also fallen in love with his characters “Mikey” and […]

Tonight on Warriors of the Westfold: We Talk PJ’s New Hobbit Character, Tauriel

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding Peter Jackson’s decision to add a new female character into his film adaptions of ‘The Hobbit’ and tonight the ‘Warriors of the Westfold’ will be diving into detail about about […]

Weta Founders to Open New Creative and Performing Arts Centre at Scots College

The recently dubbed New Zealander of the Year, Richard Taylor, and his partner (and co-founder of Weta) Tania Rodger will officially open the new Creative and Performing Arts Centre at Scots College in Strathmore, New […]

Riddles in the Dark Prediction Game Launches!

Official Press Release: The Mythgard Institute, in conjunction with the Middle-earth Network, is proud to announce the long-awaited launch of the Riddles in the Dark prediction game attached to the RITD podcast by Corey Olsen and Dave Kale. […]

Miranda Otto: Murder Mysteries and Frankenstein

Lord of the Rings alum Miranda Otto has been keeping busy. Recently, she was cast as the key guest role in a new Australian TV series, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, which premieres this Friday at […]

‘A Long Expected Journey to New Zealand’ Tour- Claim Your Seat Now!

Come join Middle-earth Network as we take ‘A Long Expected Journey to New Zealand’! Arranged by author and photographer, Ian Brodie, our 14 day tour explores ‘The Lord of the Rings’, ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected […]