From Digg: We’re sitting down with Academy Award-winning Director Peter Jackson in anticipation of the upcoming release of his new movie, The Lovely Bones, for our next Digg Dialogg. We’ll be asking him the most popular questions submitted and voted upon by you. From now until Thursday, December 3rd at 5pm PT you can submit and Digg up questions to decide which will be asked. More..
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Tickets are now on sale for the highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which will be presented live to film at Radio City Music Hall for two performances only, on Friday, October 8th and Saturday, October 9th, 2010. Following the success of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring’s concert last October, the Academy Award®-nominated film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers gets the same treatment at the world-famous Radio City Music Hall. Beneath an immense 60-foot screen, Howard Shore’s Grammy®-winning complete original score will be performed live to Peter Jackson’s award-winning epic. Continue reading “TTT at Radio City Press Release”
Giulio Cicala writes: I’m an Italian movie journalist. Last Thursday I met Peter Jackson at the press conference “The Lovely Bones”. Peter Jackson in the second video “Round table” speaks about his relationship with Steven Spielberg too. During the meeting I met actress Saoirse Ronan as well.
Continue reading “Video: Peter Jackson Talks ‘Bones’ & More”
A few days ago, we reported here that Peter Jackson has indicated filming for The Hobbit will be delayed to mid-2010. Doing the math on how long it took to film The Lord of the Rings movies was sobering with respect to achieving a 2011 release, but we found reason to be optimistic in the fact that many sets, set designs, etc. won’t have to be created from scratch. Today, however, we’ve been alerted to more sobering news on the release from the WaxWord blog over at thewrap.com:
“Executives close to the project said that Warner Brothers is now likely to release the first film at the end of 2012, and not at the end of 2011 as had been hoped for by the fans. The second part would be pushed to 2013.”
No need to lose hope for a 2011 release yet though. The article also quoted PJ as saying a final decision about the release dates won’t be made until the screenplays, budget and schedule are complete. More than ever, all eyes are on Guillermo, Peter, Fran, Phillipa and the studio.
I was recently invited to do a podcast with the guys from JoBlo.com. These guys are hardcore movie fans after my own heart and I had a blast chatting with them, take a listen! From Joblo.com: If you’ve ever looked for something on the internet related to the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy you’ve probably ended up on our guest’s website. TheOneRing.net’s Editor in Chief and founder, Michael Regina joins Moreno and I to talk about the site, dish out some juicy HOBBIT info, and let us know how he’s planning on macking Jenna Busch. Strong language warning here! More..
Several reports are coming in that filming for The Hobbit will be delayed from the original estimate of March 2010 to mid-summer 2010, possibly July. The German site, moviereporter.net, reports that, as part of an interview regarding The Lovely Bones, PJ estimates filming will begin towards the middle of next year:
“We’re currently working on the second script which we hope to have completed by the end of this year or beginning of next. When the scripts are completed, we can begin with the exact calculation of the necessary budget. We hope to start filming in the middle of next year. However, we’ve received no green light from the studio yet.” (- translated from German – read the original quote here).
PJ didn’t elaborate on whether this will affect the proposed release dates of December 2011 and 2012. More than two years elapsed between the start of filming for The Lord of the Rings movies in October, 1999, and the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in December 2001. However, they are only tackling two films this time, plus the previous movies provide them a head-start on on a number of pre-production items such as some of the set and location designs (Bag End, Rivendell). This is sure to cause quite a bit of buzz! Be sure to join in the discussion in our Barliman’s Chat or our Hobbit Movie message board.