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The Hobbit actor, Sir Ian McKellen, is spending his weekends raising money to restore the earthquake damaged Isaac Theatre Royal in Christchurch, by travelling around New Zealand performing his one-man show. He is having a “lovely […]
Last month’s rumours that Peter Jackson had rented around a hectare of space in the former General Motors parts warehouse in Upper Hutt are supported by the latest news from the Upper Hutt Leader of a […]
Hobbit unit publicist Ceris Price has announced that filming for The Hobbit’s second unit should be completed “on schedule” by the end of May reports the Dominion Post. “This is approximately four weeks prior to […]
Bret Mckenzie is up for auction! Well actually, coffee with Mckenzie to be precise. Oxfam are holding an auction as part of their Biggest Coffee Break and Fair Trade Fortnight 2012 and Mckenzie is offering […]
John Rhys-Davies is 68 today! Rhys-Davies is known to LOTR fans as Gimli the dwarf, a member of the Fellowship of the Ring. Rhys-Davies grew up in Ammanford in Wales and in East Africa and in […]
To create the sounds of Middle-earth for his Hobbit films, director Peter Jackson is considering the new Dolby Atmos audio format, which has been developed to create “lifelike” sound via speakers placed all around an […]
There are still long months ahead of us as we wait for the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on December 14. One way I choose to satisfy my hunger for all things Hobbit […]
Though 2012 is the year of the dragon, it has been confirmed that we will not get a glimpse of The Hobbit’s own dragon, Smaug, until 2013. However, in one of Peter Jackson’s production diaries, […]
Ten minutes of footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was shown today at CinemaCon 2012. Let’s start with a breakdown of the scenes that were shown before we delve into the reactions of the […]
Elijah Wood is to perform a DJ set at the Bushmills Live whiskey and music festival at the Old Bushmills Distillery in Northern Ireland this June. It will be the first time Wood and Zach […]
