The Hobbit Is Back On Top
The Hobbit:An Unexpected Journey is back at No.1 in the charts for DVD and Blu-ray sales in the US. The film, which has been out in the US for four weeks, went to the top […]
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No Tolkien Mountain For New Zealand
New Zealand resident Aaron Nicholson applied to have an unnamed peak in Fiordland National Park christened “Tolkien Mountain” in honor of the Lord of the Rings author, but the New Zealand Geographic Board has declined the […]
‘Smaug’ Plays It Safe At CinemaCon
The big story that came out of last year’s CinemaCon was that the 10 minutes of footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was shown at 48 frames per second, in an effort to convince cinema owners to upgrade to the […]
“The Hobbit: Armies” Reaches One Million New Users
Kabam’s newest release, The Hobbit: Armies of the Third Age has reached its first milestone. Following its official debut on March 21, the game attracted more than 250,000 new players. Now, less than four weeks […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
Tumblr user zohbugg recently purchased an Uruk-Hai Scimitar and has found increasingly pragmatic uses for it, such as helping her make the bed, reaching the remote when it’s too far away, and slicing bread for toast. Apparently, we […]
Amy Hubbard On Casting The Hobbit
Amy Hubbard, casting director, gives a great insight into casting The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and talks about Peter Jackson, Ian McKellen and Elijah Wood in this Film Club video. In another interview, this time […]
Announcing David Rowe’s ‘The Proverbs of Middle-earth’
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (April 9 2013) – Oloris Publishing is pleased to announce David Rowe’s The Proverbs of Middle-earth, scheduled to be released later this year. Proverbs are ships in which wisdom sails. On his great […]
All Agog To Hear Azog
We’ve heard how it took Peter Jackson some time to get the character of Azog the Defiler right in The Hobbit films. Now Kiwi actor Manu Bennett, the man who plays Azog, has given an interview […]
The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth Gets First Major Update
Five months after its initial release, Kabam’s popular Android-based strategy game, The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth, is getting its first major update. Among the game’s new features are: The ability to add a third city […]
Wellington’s Film Industry Generates Over $800m
Wellington’s film industry generated $828 million in revenues in the year to April 2012 according to figures from Statistics NZ . This was up 67 per cent on 2011, with films like The Hobbit. Tintin and […]
