The New Zealand Government has released a tranche of email exchanges between Sir Peter Jackson and ministerial officials, which lay bare his frustration over the deal eventually done to ensure The Hobbit was made here.
Earlier this month the Ombudsman ordered the Government to release documents about the deal it struck for the movies. Warner Bros’ New Line unit warned that the ruling jeopardised future film-making in New Zealand.
In a statement Jackson today said he welcomed the release of the documents, which he hoped would end “unfounded conspiracy theories” that a Hollywood studio had been dictating terms to a sovereign government.
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey may have come up empty on Oscars night, but at the annual NME Awards in the United Kingdom Peter Jackson’s film took out the Best Film gong.
The NME Awards are an annual music awards show in the United Kingdom, founded by the music magazine, NME (New Musical Express).
The Hobbit took the award ahead of fellow nominees Ted, iLL Manors, The Dark Knight Rises, Skyfall and The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro voted Best British Band. The Rolling Stones won Best Music Film for Crossfire Hurricane, the feature-length documentary about the group’s exploits and were voted Best Live Band for their two 50th anniversary shows at the O2 Arena last year.
Via Ringer CanadianLOTR: Made in honour of the release of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey”, screenjunkies Honest Trailers has taken on all three Lord of the Rings movies and told what they honestly believe they are. Continue reading “Parody: The Lord of the Rings “honestly told””
BoxOfficeMojo reports: The Hobbit opened to $18.1 million in China this weekend. According to Warner Bros., that’s the fourth-biggest three-day start ever for a U.S. movie. That brings the movie’s foreign total to $679.6 million (12th all-time); it’s also now less than $20 million away from passing $1 billion worldwide, which it should be able to do if China keeps it in theaters for a full two weeks.
Pennsylvania Youth Theatre is headed to The Shire. The theater will perform J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” March 15-24 at the Charles A. Brown Ice House in Bethlehem, according to a news release.
Performances will take place 7 p.m. Fridays and 1 and 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Continue reading “Pennsylvania Youth Theatre to perform The Hobbit”
Tonight, The Bridge Direct sent us a couple of really great images of two figures you will see this fall in their line of 6″ figures for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The two figures we get the special look at are Radagast the Brown and Yazneg. Radagast the Brown comes looking spot on to what we saw in the film mis-matched shoes and all. The other figure is Yazneg who previously had only been released in Europe as an exclusive. Both figures will be priced at $14.99 and are due to arrive in the fall of 2013.
