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.
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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””
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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.
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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”
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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.
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Billy Boyd’s alt-rock outfit Beecake headlined The One Expected Party the other night in Los Angeles. Boyd, performing with bandmates Billy (BJ) Johnston, Paul Burke, Rick Martin and David McAulay, entertained hundreds with a delightful set of rock and revelry. As well as performing songs such as Soul Swimming and Radio, the band was joined on stage by our own staffer greendragon, and Dominic Monaghan — who pulled no punches in exhorting the crowd to get up and dance. Click the photo below to check out our photo gallery!
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