{"id":88009,"date":"2014-03-27T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T03:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=88009"},"modified":"2014-03-27T23:07:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T04:07:19","slug":"cinemacon-hobbit-presentation-reveals-un-surprisingly-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2014\/03\/27\/88009-cinemacon-hobbit-presentation-reveals-un-surprisingly-little\/","title":{"rendered":"CinemaCon Hobbit presentation reveals (un)-surprisingly little"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cinemacon-logo-300x73.jpg\" alt=\"cinemacon-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-55426 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cinemacon-logo-300x73.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/cinemacon-logo.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> People hoping for a big reveal about The Hobbit: There and Back Again at CinemaCon 2014 will probably come away disappointed by the news that, well, there wasn&#8217;t much news at all on that front.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. closed out their 2.30pm presentation with a special recorded message from Peter Jackson, then rolled a new production diary. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the video Jackson recaps where they&#8217;ve been in the last two films with story and production-technology, then discusses what to expect in the third film. What folks saw was mostly production diary behind-the-scenes footage but there were a couple final film clips including one with Gandalf saying:<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"white\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The time is upon us where all must choose what side we&#8217;re on.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Quote now with spoiler concealment (sorry about the oversight). Highlight above to read.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few snippets from online reports:<\/p>\n<p><b>BoxOffice.com<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;The Hobbit saga comes to a close with the final installment of the trilogy. Peter Jackson sent a video message thanking the CinemaCon crowd and introducing an exclusive behind the scenes featurette covering the entire Lord of the Rings saga.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>The Wrap<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Perhaps the biggest film in Warner Bros. lineup isn&#8217;t due out for another nine months. That would be \u201cThe Hobbit: There and Back Again,\u201d the final installment in Peter Jackson&#8217;s $4.5 billion grossing adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien&#8217;s fantasy series.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibitors were treated to a video greeting from the New Zealand based director and a look back at his six part epic. New footage, aside from a few dramatic stares courtesy of Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and a glimpse of a flying dragon, was scant.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Variety<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Jackson introduced the <i>Lord of the Rings<\/i> material, which included a few shots from There and Back Again&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More to come soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-ian-mckellen-gandalf-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-ian-mckellen-gandalf\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-84315 no-lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-ian-mckellen-gandalf-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-ian-mckellen-gandalf-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-ian-mckellen-gandalf-600x874.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/hobbit-desolation-of-smaug-ian-mckellen-gandalf.jpg 1405w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People hoping for a big reveal about The Hobbit: There and Back Again at CinemaCon 2014 will probably&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":55406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,497,14,22,4,74,496,498,148,1912,149,392],"tags":[2463],"class_list":["post-88009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events-conventions","category-production-directors","category-events","category-headlines","category-hobbit-movie","category-jackson","category-production","category-production-studios","category-hobbit","category-the-hobbit-there-and-back-again","category-lotr","category-warner-bros","tag-cinemacon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CinemaCon_PeterJackson.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-mTv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009","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=88009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88030,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88009\/revisions\/88030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}