{"id":65417,"date":"2012-11-19T00:05:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T05:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=65417"},"modified":"2012-11-24T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T18:19:54","slug":"blanchett-among-stars-to-attend-wellington-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/11\/19\/65417-blanchett-among-stars-to-attend-wellington-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanchett among stars to attend Wellington premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cate_blanchett_02.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cate_blanchett_02-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cate_blanchett_02\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41161 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cate_blanchett_02-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cate_blanchett_02.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>  Australians Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Barry Humphries will all attend the world premiere of the first Hobbit movie in New Zealand next week.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. has announced the stars who will attend the first screening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>Filmmakers Sir Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens will also be joined by Martin Freeman, who plays the central role of Bilbo Baggins; Richard Armitage, who stars as the dwarf warrior Thorin Oakenshield; Andy Serkis who plays Gollum and Elijah Wood who plays Frodo Baggins.<\/p>\n<p>There may be a nearly 10-metre statue of Gandalf the Grey above Wellington&#8217;s Embassy Theatre, but the actor who plays the character, Sir Ian McKellen, won&#8217;t be there to see it for himself.<\/p>\n<p>McKellen said he was sorry he could not attend. &#8220;I know they (the cast) will have a wonderful welcome from the fans and I envy them. As ever, my heart is in Wellington, and I send my love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/blanchett-confirmed-for-hobbit-premiere-20121119-29lln.html\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australians Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving and Barry Humphries will all attend the world premiere of the first Hobbit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,41,46,14,65,4,1260,74,75,69,1292,148],"tags":[1728,2902],"class_list":["post-65417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serkis","category-blanchett","category-wood","category-events","category-walsh","category-hobbit-movie","category-martin-freeman","category-jackson","category-boyens","category-events-premieres","category-richard-armitage","category-hobbit","tag-hobbit-premiere","tag-premiere"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/cate_blanchett_02.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-h17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65417"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65864,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65417\/revisions\/65864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}