Interview With Joe Letteri
“For me, it’s keeping the focus on the character.” – Joe Letteri Joe Letteri is Weta Digital’s senior visual effects supervisor and studio director. Among a long list of awards bestowed upon him, he is a winner […]
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Balin’s Stunt Double, Peter Dillon, Talks to Middle-earth News
“I’m going on an adventure,” are words synonymous with Bilbo Baggins but they could so easily have been Peter Dillon’s as he took a year’s sabbatical from his job as a teacher in Dublin to […]
The Hobbit Ranks 14th In All Time Box Office
The latest ranking from Box Office Mojo puts The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at 14th in the list of all time, worldwide box office grosses with $1.01 billion. Avatar is number one with $2.78 billion. The Lord of the […]
The Hobbit to Hit a Billion
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is set to reach box office takings of a billion dollars! It will become the fifteenth film to do so and be in the company of Titanic, which was the first film to […]
Participate in a ‘Hobbit’ Research Study
Whether you love it or hate it, researchers at New Zealand’s University of Waikato want to know what you think about The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey! Read the press release below and click here to […]
They Stole The Precious! New Zealand Ne’er-Do-Wells
Dallas Poll was a jeweler who worked as a prop maker on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia films, and Avatar. On May 4, his home in Paraparaumu was raided twice by thieves who took the […]
