In an interview with ign.com, Guillermo Del Toro says news on what will happen regarding his involvement with The Hobbit should come in the next FOUR to FIVE DAYS!!!

“We’re all in agreement on what we want to do creatively… we are coming to the point where the deal either will happen or not happen…Right now, I haven’t booked any planes yet… If it happens I would be coming in with humility and hard work”

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Step into our cave, says Weta From Lord of the Rings to lords of the ringing tills, the Weta team that conquered Hollywood is now branching out into a souvenir shop for film buffs. The new store, Weta Cave, opens next month and will provide fans and tourists with a chance to get up close to the film-makers. The shop will have goods ranging from $1000 ray guns to King Kong figurines, and will be based next to Peter Jackson’s Miramar empire. Weta Ltd general manager Tim Launder said the store, which will stock limited-edition collectibles, DVDs, books and clothing, had been built to help satisfy Wellington’s thriving movie tourism sector. Step into our cave, says Weta

Miranda Otto At the heart of every movie is performance; the interpretation of the words on the page into living breathing characters. But how do you write for performance? How do actors think? How do you construct a movie that actors can sink their teeth into? Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings, The Thin Red Line, Cashmere Mafia) and Jeremy Sims (Fireflies) lend their views to this episode, which explores the relationship between the script and performer. Writing for Actors: Motion Sketches Episode 4

For the first three of its four-year history, Vacaville’s Medieval Fantasy Festival arrived with mostly earnest and serious-minded matters and pursuits. They included guest lecturers and experts on fantasy, especially the kind imagined by British author J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and serves as the festival’s spiritual godfather. And the two-day event’s themes center around the sober ideas of friendship, community and environmental stewardship, that is, being “green.” Medieval fling