Rejoice, Tolkien fans! Today, Amazon posted the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit collector’s edition to end all collector editions. With a crazy 30 Blu-ray discs, all extended editions of all six films are part of this “Middle-Earth Limited Collector’s Edition” – that’s An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug, The...
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In a featurette on the Blu-ray of The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, the crew of The Hobbit Trilogy opens up about struggles on set after Guillermo del Toro’s departure from the film and new director Peter Jackson’s changed vision. The complaints weren’t about Jackson himself, but about the general chaos that seems to...
J.R.R. Tolkien is most notably known for his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as well as the posthumously published The Silmarillion, which describes the mythology and history of Tolkien’s legendarium. Now, almost forty years since The Silmarillion was published, Tolkien fans will be delighted to know that the author’s estate is...
Luke Evans, a.k.a. Bard the Bowman from The Hobbit trilogy is in talks to play Gaston in Disney’s upcoming live-action Beauty and the Beast, according to Variety. Bill Condon is set to direct. Disney has been working on a slew of live-action versions of their classic films, including Cinderella, which opens next week, Pete’s...
Peter Jackson’s latest film – the concluding movie to The Hobbit franchise – showcases the promise of a cool story line that neatly ties together the abundance of subplots splattered throughout the first two movies. The continual subplots and over-the-top action has been a little dizzying to say the least, but once The...
Cookie Monster’s been hanging out with lots of awesome celebrities these days (he must have a new agent), and the latest star to try to teach everyone’s favorite chocolate-chip chomping maniac some self-control is none other than ol’ Gandalf the Grey himself, Sir Ian McKellan. The 84-year-old thespian dropped by Sesame Street to...
Warner Bros. has released a slew of new pics from the final film in the Middle Earth saga The Hobbit: The Longest Title Ever The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. In it, we’ll see the final battle against evil … well, for now, anyway. Check out the pics below. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is directed by Peter Jackson...
It’s almost time. It’s almost over. Today we have a new TV spot for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Seriously, why is everyone coming up with awful names for their films? Ah well. Read the official synopsis and watch the video below. The Hobbit: The Really Long Name That Is Terrible For a Hashtag opens in theaters on...
It’s no secret that I haven’t been super-jazzed about The Hobbit films. I’m a devotee of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I didn’t think The Hobbit films stood up to them. However, now that the 6th film is coming out, I’m feeling nostalgic. Today we have a new trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies...
Do you remember that Hobbit safety video from Air New Zealand a couple years back? Today we have a brand new one and it’s epic. Epic in both content and length. It’s also adorable. The description states, “As the official airline of Middle-earth, Air New Zealand has gone all out to celebrate the third and final film in The...