From the Waikato Times: Two barefoot men, one with a bushy white beard, sat outside a cafe in Matamata yesterday, but a closer inspection revealed a marked lack of hair on their smooth feet.
With the Hobbiton movie set near Matamata closed for filming on Wednesday, the Waikato Times’ hunt for hobbits is on.
The permit given to production company 3 Foot 7 to film in Matamata was for filming rights lasting no more than 15 days before November 8, but there have been no movie star sightings yet.
Espresso To Go owner Bill Anderson said they would be willing to make hobbit-sized coffees if the demand was there but last time around 3 Foot 7 had their own cafe on set, so he was not holding out hope for an influx of Hollywood big spenders.
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Warner Bros. Consumer Products has awarded The Bridge Direct, Inc. the Master Toy License for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. The toy line will launch in the fall of 2012:
Read more: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=82992
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TheOneRing.net has an exciting LIVE show today for TORn Tuesdays! Hosted by long-time staffer Clifford Broadway, aka Quickbeam, we will have an exclusive conversation with star-designers from Fantasy Flight Games’ HOT bestselling “Lord of the Rings Living Card Game,” Nate French and Lucas Litzsinger! Expect REVEALS OF EXCITING NEW CARDS, and in-depth conversation with our guests on the challenges of adapting Tolkien, which so many artists must face. You can participate too — interacting live and posing questions in our Barliman’s chatroom. Check out the broadcast in our LIVE event section at 5:00PM Pacific Time! [LIVE Event Area] (TORn Tuesday will take place from approx 5-7pm PT – See All Times)
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Access Hollywood recently spoke to Evangeline Lilly, and touched on her role as the woodland elf Tauriel in the current production of The Hobbit. Revealingly, she provided a couple of lines of elvish (presumably Sindarin, but I’m no Tolkien language scholar) — which finally give us some tantalising clues about where the Tauriel character slots into Tolkien’s story.
She also indicated she was being extensively coached in English Received Pronunciation — same as the elves of Rivendell in Lord of the Rings. “I have a dialect coach, I have a motion coach, I have a language coach,” she said. “So I should, by rights, be great in this film!
Check out the clip at CraveOnline, and then give us your thoughts on what it all might mean on our forums or on our live chat!
Evangeline Lilly speaks Elvish!
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Elven sends along a transcription from the John Key interview with Peter Jackson.
PM John Key: We have somebody who is not just world famous in New Zealand – not just world famous in our country, but right around the planet – he is a remarkable man and he is working with a lot of very small people at the moment – he is of course, Sir Peter Jackson. And I’m delighted to welcome him onto the show this afternoon – Sir Peter…
Sir Peter Jackson: Hi John how are you! Continue reading “Prime Ministers Hour – John Key interviews Sir Peter Jackson Transcription”
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Andrew writes: According to this article (posted on September 29th), Ian McKellen is back in New Zealand, and will have another break in December.
“Sir Ian, who has now returned to New Zealand to continue filming both parts of The Hobbit, said: “I have got a break at Christmas and I wasn’t going to come home but I think I will now I have the pub. I really enjoy just sitting here in the evening. In New Zealand I will be based in Wellington but we are on location up and down the country shooting both films at the same time.”
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