Hobbit In 5′s star Simone Boyce joins TORn TUESDAY *Live* webcast today!

March 6th, 2012 by Quickbeam | No Comments »

Join us LIVE at 5pm Pacific Standard Time tonight as we welcome the lovely and talented Simone Boyce (host of our very own “HOBBIT In 5″ podcast and for Game of Thrones fans on Winteriscoming.net)! Simone will rap with TORn TUESDAY host Clifford Broadway, aka Quickbeam, and you can also join the fun live! We will  be discussing the pros & cons of 3D fantasy movies and how Peter Jackson is bringing THE HOBBIT production into its final months of principal photography. Today’s live webcast launches at 5:00pm PST — There’s a built-in Barliman’s chat room or come in via Skype in TheOneRing.net’s Stickam page. Check out the broadcast in our LIVE Event section right here every week! [LIVE Event Area] (See All Times)

TORn Message Boards Weekly Roundup – March 4 2012

March 4th, 2012 by grammaboodawg | No Comments »

Welcome to our collection of TORn’s hottest topics for the past week. If you’ve fallen behind on what’s happening on the Message Boards, here’s a great way to catch the highlights. Or if you’re new to TORn and want to enjoy some great conversations, just follow the links to some of our most popular discussions. Watch this space as every weekend we will spotlight the most popular buzz on TORn’s Message Boards. Everyone is welcome, so come on in and join in the fun!

Peter Jackson’s production blog #6 arrives

March 1st, 2012 by MrCere | Discuss | | No Comments »

Peter Jackson posted on his Facebook page today the latest of his production blog (video blog? vlog?) featuring more of the on-location shooting. The video picks up on The Hobbiton movie set with footage from way back in October. The running time is 12:28 and as you might have guessed, its pretty cool and like the others it has high production values and is a polished bit of video blogging. Have you friended Jackson yet? It will eventually make its way to YouTube but for now, catch it on his page with the other 476,203 folks who “liked” the page. Thanks to Mithrandir for the heads up.
UPDATE:
So now, in case you aren’t into Facebook (where you can also like and friend TheOneRing.net BTW):
You can watch the video here:

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Benedict Cumberbatch talks Voice Work and Mo-Cap for Smaug, Necromancer

March 1st, 2012 by Earl | Source: MTV | Discuss | | No Comments »

Speaking with MTV about working with Peter Jackson on The Hobbit, actor Benedict Cumberbatch (who’s been cast in the role of both Smaug and The Necromancer) dished a bit about the work he’s done thus far on the films.

Excerpts follow:

I was in isolation with [Peter Jackson] and this incredible tag team. And at the very cool place with that technology doing mo-cap for two characters, Smaug the dragon and another character, which will remain nameless, and it was an awful lot of fun.

I spent a lot of time recording voice as well as doing movements. So, it was sort of freeing; it was fun. It was like playing a game. It’s going to be an amazing film; it’s going to be a real treat.

Catch the entire interview over at MTV. Many thanks to message board member f00 for the heads-up!

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New HOBBIT Vlog Coming Soon

February 29th, 2012 by Earl | Source: Facebook (Peter Jackson) | Discuss | | No Comments »

Peter Jackson has just posted the following update on his Facebook page:

Hi everybody. We will have a new on-set video from THE HOBBIT coming here soon!

You can be sure TheOneRing.net will have the link to the video as soon as it hits. So keep your eyes peeled.

And don’t forget to come check out our message board where the discussion has already begun in right earnest.

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Why Dain and Connolly is good news for ‘Hobbit’ fans

February 9th, 2012 by MrCere | Discuss | | 13 Comments »

The release and news arrived yesterday that Billy Connolly will play Dain II Ironfoot in the two forthcoming Hobbit movies, directed by Peter Jackson, and with that, all the pieces of the films are in place.

Here in the underground labyrinth that serves as TORn’s offices (with doors leading to L.A., Atlanta, Kenosha and Wellington among other places) a big sigh of relief could audibly heard. Dain II Ironfoot will be included; a talented actor, somebody who already looks like a Middle-earth dwarf, and is a skilled performer will be handling the role. Awesome.

We have full confidence in Connolly — who is best known for his comedy — in what might be inspired casting. His credibility comes from small, dramatic roles (The Last Samurai) which he handles just fine but more from independent films, playing larger parts and lead roles, giving him a lot of experience in front of the camera. General audiences may only think of comedy (and there may be plenty of that in The Hobbit anyway) but they should recognize his considerable talent.

Much more central the sigh of relief was the clarity that the Dain character is in. The complete absence of this important dwarven hero from news or casting announcement was a genuine concern among those trying to piece everything together. It was a glaring omission.

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A speculative look: The end of the first ‘Hobbit’ film?

February 7th, 2012 by admin | Discuss | | 1 Comment »

Where will The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey end? One of our own takes a speculative look for Movies.com:
Face-to-face conversations about The Hobbit with fans across the U.S. and New Zealand, and online from around the world, often lead to the same place: Where will the films break? Despite being on the minds and spilling out of the mouths of real people in real conversations, little has been written about it.

The production and the team adapting the book can’t be blamed for playing things close to the vest; the book, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, is so well known that they need to keep their secrets so film fans can be surprised by something when they head to the cinema this December for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. With that in mind, there are speculative spoilers ahead and you have been warned.

The media, while writing a lot about the films, haven’t looked at the structure of these films too carefully. Today’s digital media environment often gets more clicks from a new still photo than it does from more complex content that requires more patience and so topics at the very core of these two films often get glossed over and ignored.

But not here in The Hobbit countdown! Here we skip past the catch phrase and empty headlines and peer a little deeper into news, rumors, lore and subterfuge to dredge up the best speculation and theory about just where the two films might break, a question that comes up in nearly any Hobbit conversation.

Here are five of the most common and best-defended theories: Read the rest at Movies.com

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Hobbit in 5 – Nicolas Cage, James Cameron & More!

February 6th, 2012 by xoanon | 7 Comments »

The latest episode of Hobbit in 5 is now online! Take a look!

Hobbit in 5 – Evangeline Lilly talks Tauriel, Peter Jackson and “West of Memphis”

February 2nd, 2012 by xoanon | Discuss | | 5 Comments »

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Happy Chinese New Year! It’s the Year of Smaug…err…the Dragon!

January 23rd, 2012 by newsfrombree | Discuss | | 2 Comments »

We’d like to wish the entire world a very happy Chinese New Year! I’m not sure if PJ and crew had it in mind…but do you think it is any coincidence ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey‘ will be released in the year of the Dragon?

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P-Jack and E-Wood speak from Sundance red carpet

January 22nd, 2012 by admin | 1 Comment »

Film and celebrity media flock to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival so the Peter Jackson-produced West Memphis Three is grabbing a lot of media attention. Staffer Maegwen sends in two clips from E! with video of director Amy Berg, Jackson and Damien Echols, one of the West Memphis Three. They slip in some Hobbit content too. You can view it if you click here.
The next video has some Hobbit content from the first link but starts with Elijah Wood saying that returning to New Zealand was like a family reunion in a Hobbity context. You can view that one here, with extra Sundance content after Middle-earth chat is over.

Peter Jackson brings Damien Echols from prison to Sundance, ‘West of Memphis’ points fingers

January 22nd, 2012 by MrCere | Discuss | | 10 Comments »

PARK CITY — There were tears and cheers and moans and even laughs at absurd real-life characters in the new Peter Jackson-produced documentary, West Memphis Three, at its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

Directed by Amy Berg, the movie was commissioned by Jackson and wife Fran Walsh after the pair saw the first HBO documentary that spread the story of the West Memphis Three. The trio was convicted in 1994 of murdering three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas and has long been an the subject of intense media scrutiny. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were, according to many, completely innocent and clearly wrongly convicted. The justice system of Arkansas does not agree.

Jackson and Walsh watched the original HBO documentary, Paradise Lost, that focuses on the case and the doubts that surround it. That original film has grown into three.

“It made us angry and it made us sad and we called Lori (Davis, Echol’s wife) and asked if there was anything we could do,” Jackson said.

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