We’re bummed we can’t attend Wizard World this year. Go have fun and report back to us! Iconic Trilogy’s ‘Frodo Baggins’ Adds To Star Power, Joins LOTR Stars Astin, Boyd At Pennsylvania Convention Center Elijah Wood, who starred as “Frodo Baggins” in the iconic Lord of the Rings trilogy and reprised the role in The [… read more]
I know they are called Furry Adventurer Slippers (as they are not officially licensed and are only inspired by The Lord of the Rings), but I like to call them my Hobbit feets. I got myself a pair of these for Xmas and a second pair for a friend. Not a huge fan of slippers. [… read more]
(December 19, 2012 – Los Angeles, CA) – WaterTower Music has announced this morning that the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack has achieved unprecedented chart success on this week’s Billboard Charts. Entering at #30 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [… read more]
First film in Peter Jackson’s epic “The Hobbit” Trilogy takes in an estimated worldwide $223 million in its opening weekend. “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” soared to the top of the global box office in a record-breaking opening, dominating the weekend with an estimated $84.775 million domestically and $138.2 million internationally, for a worldwide estimated total [… read more]
I just got my paws on this book and it is gorgeous! I remember the calendars as a kid. I loved the animated Hobbit movie and found the artwork in the Hildebrandt calendars to be just as fascinating to me as the cartoon was, if not more so (I know I am dating myself here.) This is not [… read more]
PETER JACKSON (Director/Producer/Screenwriter) is one of the world’s most successful filmmakers. His monumental achievement was “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy, which he directed, as well as co-wrote and produced together with fellow Academy Award® winners and frequent collaborators Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Collectively, the films earned a total of 30 Academy Award® nominations, [… read more]
IAN McKELLEN (Gandalf the Grey) has been honored with over 50 international acting awards during his half-century on stage and screen. He is treasured worldwide as Magneto in the “X-Men” films and Gandalf in “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy. In “The Hobbit” Trilogy he again plays Gandalf the Grey, the role that earned him [… read more]
RETURN TO MIDDLE-EARTH: DESIGN, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD OF THE FILM Stone Street Studios, Peter Jackson’s production facilities in Miramar, New Zealand, has nearly tripled in size and capabilities since the days when he and his team made “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy in the converted paint factory. Building the world of “The Hobbit: [… read more]
A TALE THAT GREW IN THE TELLING: ADAPTING THE HOBBIT “In a hole in the ground there lived a Hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it [… read more]
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey In High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D) in select theaters, other 2D and 3D formats, and IMAX® Friday, December 14 From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” the first of a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The three films [… read more]