April 2009

Del Toro And Jackson Talk Hobbit Movies

Published on: 26th April, 2009

This months special edition 20th anniversary copy of Empire magazine is on the stands today and features an interview with both Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro about plans, hopes and progress of The Hobbit movies.
The two reveal more about dropping the idea of the ‘bridging’ movie and their new idea of filming The Hobbit [...]

The Hunt For Gollum

Published on: 24th April, 2009

The Hunt For Gollum gets its world premiere at the London Sci-Fi Festival on May 3rd.
The Hunt for Gollum is another fan made unofficial Middle Earth movie that has received acclaim based on the 2 teaser trailers released so far.
The 45 minute movie follows the Heir of Isildur; the “greatest huntsman and traveler in Middle [...]

The Hobbit Goes Digital

Published on: 20th April, 2009

The Hobbit was today (20th April) released by publishers HarperCollins as an ebook and is now available for the Amazon Kindle.
As well as The Hobbit  joining the digital world, HarperCollins have also released The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Children of Hurin in the same format and plan to release all of Tolkien’s [...]

The Hobbit Movie In Two Parts

Published on: 17th April, 2009

According to Empire magazine The Hobbit is now to be filmed over 2 movies rather than one and a so called ‘bridging’ movie that would fill in the gaps between the end of The Hobbit and the start of The Fellowship.
“We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and [...]

Lord of the Rings on Blu-Ray

Published on: 16th April, 2009

Its just been announced that the 3 Lord of the Rings movies will be released in high definition Blu-Ray some time this Summer and Amazon are already taking pre-orders for the entire trilogy and guaranteeing the low price of $69.99 for anyone ordering before the official release dae is announced.
Pre-order your copy here.
Middle Earth fans [...]

The Hobbit Musical?

Published on: 15th April, 2009

Kevin Wallace, the Director of the much troubled Lord of the Rings stage show hopes to follow up by bringing The Hobbit to the stage.  “The stage rights to The Hobbit are controlled by the [Saul] Zaentz company, my co-producers. I’d certainly like to raise the question. A first-class production of The Hobbit would be [...]

Peter Jackson Plans Flying Visits To Hobbit Movie Set

Published on: 11th April, 2009

The rumour in New Zealand is that Peter Jackson is about to take delivery of a new Gulfstream G550 jet which will allow him to fly to the set of The Hobbit movies in New Zealand from his other projects in the States without the need for a refuel stop.
Peter Jackson has a home in [...]

Rowan Atkinson Lands Bilbo Baggins Role

Published on: 1st April, 2009

Rowan Atkinson couldn’t resist letting it ’slip’ that he had landed the lead role in the upcoming Hobbit movies during his flight back to the UK last night from New Zealand where he had just had final talks with Del Toro and been given the good news.
It sounds like it was touch and go though [...]