Conan O’Brien has released a parody video showing Willie Nelson auditioning for The Hobbit 2. The video has quickly gone viral, attracting attention from some of The Hobbit actors themselves. In the video, Willie Nelson makes a pitch for playing playing Gandalf in the The Hobbit 2. Near the end...
Because it’s April Fool’s Day, we really don’t know what to make of this once, except it’s absolutely true. Earlier today, Peter Jackson released around a six minute excerpt of the live event that was done the other week to preview The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. During the video,...
While some information has started to trickle out, information about Evangeline Lilly’s Tauriel, leader of the Woodland Guard in the forthcoming The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is still somewhat rare. Peter Jackson, though, spoke a little about the character during his Q&A with fans today. “Tauriel is like a...
Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, is currently engaging fans in an interactive, video Q&A on the Blu-ray site for The Hobbit. Open only to fans who have purchased the Blu-ray or Special Edition DVD with a digital download code for the movie via...
Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson will host a Q&A session later this month during a live first look at The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, available to fans who buy the Blu-ray of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, out next week. The Academy Award-winning director will host the...
Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has crossed the $1 billion mark in the worldwide box office. Since its release, the film has grossed $301.1 million domestically and just shy of $700 million worldwide. Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel, the first in a trilogy adapting J.R.R. Tolkien’s The...
The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the third part of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel trilogy, will be pushed back to a December 17, 2014 release, five months later than its planned July release, reports Deadline. While the first Hobbit film came out in the winter of 2012,...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will come to DVD, Blu-ray and video-on-demand services on March 19. Fans who buy the video through select retailers will be able to “unlock” a preview of the second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the following week on March 24. The film, which...
In The Hobbit skit on Saturday Night Live, it is revealed that Peter Jackson has decided to split the remaining two Hobbit movies into eighteen movies. Here are the titles of some of the eighteen remaining Hobbit movies: The Hobbit 2: Journey To The Beginning Of The Walk To Smaug’s...
Universal Studios are in talks with the estate of author J.R.R. Tolkien to create a Middle Earth theme park, claims The One Ring. The fan site, which is often one of the first to break big news relating to Tolkien properties, says that a forum user claims Universal approached the...
It’s that time of the year when everyone is coming out with their best and worst of the year list. Anytime these type of lists are released, there are always people who agree or disagree with the choices selected. However, there is one particular worst list that was released by...
After a busy Friday at the box office, the first installment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy–titled The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey–has drawn more than $10 million on its way to a $32.5 million weekend. That should be enough to make it the weekend’s top-grossing film at the U.S. box office,...
Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of the first third of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit dropped more than 70% from Friday to Friday, grossing just $10.5 million this week, but still retained the #1 spot at the box office. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is on pace to make $31.5 million this...
In a blog post on the social network LinkedIn, a former low-level publishing house employee admitted to having made a potentially catastrophic mistake which, in hindsight, is pretty amusing. Check out the following post from management consultant Tony Coll: With everyone talking about the Hobbit film, I think it’s time...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have released a list of seven movies that are still being considered as nominees for this year’s Academy Award for Makeup and Hairstyling. The films are Hitchcock, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Les Misérables, Lincoln, Looper, Men in Black 3 and Snow...
