Hugo Weaving visits Hobbit set

April 30, 2011
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Peter Jackson has updated his Facebook with the above photo and status: An old friend came to visit me on set today Stop teasing us PJ If we hear anything official, we’ll let you all know! Source: Peter Jackson

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Orlando Bloom bets he’ll be in the Hobbit

April 26, 2011
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Orlando Bloom discusses The Hobbit and his possible casting in an interview with MTV: When MTV News caught up with Bloom as he did press for his upcoming film ”Sympathy for Delicious,” we asked if we could bet on him joining his “LOTR” castmates Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen and Cate Blanchett in the production. “I’m going [...]

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Rob Kazinsky (Fili) to leave The Hobbit

April 25, 2011
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Peter Jackson has just posted on his Facebook page that Rob Kazinsky, who was cast in the role of Fili, is having to leave The Hobbit and return home, for personal reasons. I am sad to report that Rob Kazinsky, who was cast in the role of Fili, is having to leave The Hobbit and [...]

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Peter Jackson’s ‘Easter Break’

April 24, 2011
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Peter Jackson has updated his Facebook wall to talk about the three distinct phases in the life of a film script: Just arrived at our four-day Easter break, which will be a nice time to recharge batteries and do a few script tweaks for future scenes. We always find there are three distinct phases in the life [...]

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Ian Holm to return as older Bilbo in Hobbit

April 22, 2011
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In a Facebook comment posted an hour ago, Director Peter Jackson confirms Ian Holm’s involvement in The Hobbit films: One comment that came up from the recent video blog was the Bilbo voice at the end—many of you assumed it was Sir Ian Holm. Whilst Ian will be returning as the older Bilbo Baggins in [...]

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Local coverage on Peter Jackson’s first video

April 18, 2011
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NZ local coverage on Peter Jackson’s first video from the set of The Hobbit. Source: TV3

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First video from the set of The Hobbit

April 14, 2011
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Peter Jackson has posted the first video from the sets of The Hobbit.

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48 Frames Per Second

April 12, 2011
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Peter Jackson has updated his Facebook page with two new photos, including inside Gollum’s cave and Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. Source: Peter Jackson

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Did Gimli cause Jackson’s ulcer?

April 10, 2011
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Veteran actor John Rhys-Davies believes his offer to make an appearance in The Hobbit may have caused Peter Jackson’s stomach ulcer. The 66-year-old Lord of the Rings star said he initially told Jackson he wouldn’t be returning to Middle Earth as the dwarf Gimli, but later had a change of heart. “The other day when [...]

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Orlando Bloom (Legolas) confirms rumours

April 8, 2011
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Orlando Bloom confirms he’s been in talks to return as Legolas in The Hobbit: Question: You were a part of the hugely successful franchises for The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean, and now those franchises are continuing on. What’s it going to be like to see those movies, as an audience member? ORLANDO BLOOM: Great! [...]

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Gollum to be Second Unit Director on ‘Hobbit’

April 7, 2011
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Andy Serkis, who played the iconic Gollum in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings, is taking on a new role in The Hobbit 1 and 2. In addition to reprising his role as the tragic creature, Serkis also has been tapped by Jackson to serve as second unit director on the two films, which [...]

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Saoirse Ronan on wanting to hug Gollum

April 6, 2011
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If you do star in “The Hobbit,” can you say something you’d be looking forward to or hope happens with the movie? If I was hired to be in “The Hobbit,” I would certainly not be playing a Hobbit. I won’t have hairy feet. I don’t like hairy feet, and so I’m not going to [...]

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Bret McKenzie (Figwit) cast as Lindir

April 5, 2011
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We are delighted to confirm our earlier suspicion that ”Flight of the Conchords” star Bret McKenzie has joined the cast of “The Hobbit,” which began shooting March 21. New Zealand-based McKenzie made brief appearances as an extra in the first and third “Lord of the Rings” pics in which he achieved fan fame on the Internet with [...]

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Bret McKenzie may take a role in The Hobbit

March 31, 2011
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Bret McKenzie could be going from being a Figwit in the Lord of the Rings to a big-screen presence in The Hobbit. The Dominion Post can reveal that Sir Peter Jackson is trying to tempt the Flight of the Conchords co-star to take a role in the 3-D Hobbit films now being shot in Wellington. [...]

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Billy Boyd dreams of a cameo role in The Hobbit

March 31, 2011
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LORD of the Rings star Billy Boyd has revealed his dream of a cameo role in prequel The Hobbit has been shot down… but he plans to gatecrash the set anyway. The Glaswegian actor played Pippin in the movie trilogy and hoped he could appear in the new two-parter – set 60 years earlier – [...]

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Saiorse Ronan ‘hopeful’ for Itaril role

March 26, 2011
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Production on “The Hobbit” is already under way in  New Zealand with a diverse cast. But don’t rule out the possibility of a star of a previous Peter Jackson film winding up in the two-part epic. Saiorse Ronan, the breakout “Atonement ” actress who worked with Jackson on the 2009 spiritual drama “The Lovely Bones,”  [...]

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Hobbit film-makers may lose permission to film

March 25, 2011
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The Hobbit film-makers are about to lose permission to film in Hobbiton, the location that bookends JRR Tolkien’s classic tale – though that does not mean their quest is finished. Documents issued under the Official Information Act show a crew of up to 450 were scheduled to descend on Hobbiton, near Matamata, for up to [...]

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Liv Tyler and The Hobbit

March 22, 2011
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Liv Tyler when asked about whether she had been cast in the upcoming Hobbit movies, said: “I haven’t heard from anybody.”  She also didn’t know that filming began today. When she was informed there would be additional casting, she wasn’t optimistic of her chances though expressed keenness to join old colleagues and said she would “love to go back to [...]

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Two new Peter Jackson Hobbit set photos

March 21, 2011
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Peter Jackson has just created a new Facebook profile and included two new photos from the Hobbit set as well as posting the official Start of Production announcement.

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Dwarf kings Thror and Thrain actors cast?

March 21, 2011
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Yesterday Warner Bros named Kiwi actors Jeffrey Thomas and Mike Mizrahi for the roles of dwarf kings Thror and Thrain (Source: The Dominion Post: To be confirmed!). There have been several casting announcements since Martin Freeman was confirmed as the lead in October last year. A spokeswoman for the production unit said only that everyone [...]

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