June 2009

Del Toro Feels No Hobbit Movie Pressure

Published on: 10th June, 2009

Guillermo Del Toro was on Simon Mayo’s Radio 5 Live show today in the UK and told Simon he isn’t feeling any pressure working on The Hobbit movie.
The Director of The Hobbit also claimed that he’s not worried about having his Hobbit movies compared to the critical and commercial success reached by Peter Jackson’s Lord [...]

The Third Hobbit Movie

Published on: 6th June, 2009

While New Line Cinema are not saying much about a possible third Hobbit movie they aren’t ruling it out either although Guillermo Del Toro says it will not be him directing the film as he is only committed to his 2 Hobbit movies.
A third Hobbit movie would be the so called ‘bridging movie’ which would [...]

Bilbo Baggins Actor Close To Being Named

Published on: 5th June, 2009

Guillermo Del Toro told MTV movies today that they would soon be announcing which actor would be replacing Ian Holm for The Hobbit movies.  “I believe we’re very close now to saying one name” and he also added that an announcement was no more than a couple of weeks away.
In January Del Toro had said [...]

Tolkien Battle Goes To Court

Published on: 2nd June, 2009

Round 1 went to the Tolkien trust today in its battle with New Line Cinema over an alleged $220 million it claims is owed from the profits made from The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Judge Ann Jones turned away arguments from the defense that the nature of all the lawsuits claims were such that a [...]