A little earlier, a birdie landed on our mountain and informed us that Peter Jackson put his final approval on the first trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies just today. Continue reading “Spy says Peter Jackson has approved the next Hobbit trailer”
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Doug Adams, musicologist and author of Music of Lord of the Rings says that he’s headed back to Tolkien’s world. His first stop-off will be a guest appearance the Salt Lake City Fantasy Con in just a week or so, but we wonder what those surprising announcements might be? Hmmm… Continue reading “Doug Adams “headed back to Tolkien’s world””
Wondering just what we might see when the Extended Edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug finally debuts? The following videos cut together by a helpful ringer provide some hints. Some of the images and footage will be familiar to you, some maybe not so much. Of course, this is not a guarantee that all of this stuff will make it in.
Currently, we expect that the EE will hit the shelves sometime in November this year. Continue reading “Clips of scenes we might get to see in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition”
Sir Peter Jackson is amongst the 30 honorees selected to receive a star on Hollywood’s the Walk of Fame in 2015, that the Walk of Fame Selection Committee announced on Thursday morning.
Sir Peter is said to be “chuffed” at this latest accolade.
The full list of honorees for 2015 are:
Motion pictures – Raymond Chandler (posthumous), Eugenio Derbez, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Garner, Peter Jackson, Bob Kane (posthumous), Daniel Radcliffe, Paul Rudd, Snoopy, Melissa McCarthy and Christoph Waltz
Television – James L Brooks, Ken Ehrlich, Bobby Flay, Seth MacFarlane, Julianna Margulies, Chris O’Donnell, Jim Parsons, Amy Poehler, Kelly Ripa and Sofia Vergara.
Recording – Lukasz ‘Dr Luke’ Gottwald, Kool & The Gang, Pitbull, Al Schmitt and Pharrell Williams.
Radio – Larry Elder.
Live theatre-live performance – Kristin Chenoweth, Dick Gregory and Ennio Morricone.
Egelantier shared these medieval Russian Orthodox style paintings from the Russian editions of Lord of the Rings on their tumblr page. We think they’re pretty amazing and have shared a few of them with you.
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) and Monolith Productions has released an all-new trailer, Shadow of Mordor Gameplay – Nemesis System Power Struggles. The trailer showcases the depth of the Nemesis System and shows how the stats, appearance and personality of each nemesis are different for every player. No one else will have an exact same Uruk, as the game generates unique, dynamically created enemies.
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