Stephen Colbert, the Dragon Whisperer
Now that The Colbert Report comes to an end, the host of the show Stephen Colbert has piled up an impressive guest list for his last shows. This week, Colbert talked to one of the […]
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An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth – May 13, 2014
In case you missed yesterday’s inaugural daily post, we’ve decided to turn “An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth” from a weekly post to a daily post! We noticed that there were so many Tolkien/Hobbit/LOTR -related stories making headlines that it only seemed […]
Matt Aitken on Visual Effects of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Matt Aitken, the Hobbit’s Visual Effects Supervisor, talks about the realization of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in a recent interview with Flickering Myth. Aitken was supported by the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe […]
An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth
I head over to Worth1000.com pretty regularly, and my favorite images can usually be found in the Modern Renaissance contests. This reimagining by BeNeR1 of Viggo Mortensen (Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings) as Albrecht […]
There and back again: An Interview with Shane Rangi
Often enough, stuntmen and stuntwomen play a vital part in some of the most iconic scenes in films. Yet, stuntmen and stuntwomen are invisible to the audience due tp the magic of movie making. Unknown […]
Motion-capture Uncovered
Motion-capture technology plays an important part in the production of films like The Hobbit. In recent weeks Andy Serkis has talked about how developments in the technology means he plays Gollum on a live-action set […]
Gollum in Live-Action Set
Andy Serkis says filming Gollum in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been a “fantastic” experience. Serkis was talking at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2012, where he received a Virtuosos Award for The Rise of […]
Del Toro Happy To See “The Hobbit” In The Right Hands
Earlier this week, Hero Complex sat down with director Guillermo del Toro to talk about his recent involvement with DreamWorks and his reaction to “The Hobbit” trailer. Del Toro, who worked on “Kung Fu Panda […]
Franco Pushes for Oscar Nod for Serkis
Joining the growing list of supporters in the “Oscar for Andy Serkis” campaign is his Rise of the Planet of the Apes costar, James Franco. In an article for the Deadline website, Franco wrote: “Andy […]
Andy Serkis Talks Oscar Buzz and The Hobbit
Andy Serkis has been making headlines lately because of his recent motion-capture performances in The Rise of the Planet of the Apes and The Adventures of Tintin. In the first, he plays Caesar, who is […]
