Peter Jackson has just revealed the new name for the third Movie, which was originally planed as; ‘The Hobbit; There and Back Again’. On his Facebook page the Director has explained why the title had been changed to; ‘The Hobbit; The Battle of Five Armies’.
For those of us that can’t get enough of the films he also revealed that; ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Extended Cut’, will have more than 25 minutes of extra scenes.
More details can be found by clicking here and going to Peter Jackson’s latest Facebook post.
Blanco, the horse that played Shadowfax in the LOTR trilogy, has died at the age of 25. More information about this sad occurrence can be found here.
25 Inspirational Quotes from J.R.R Tolkien’s books: In celebration of Tolkien Reading Day International Business Times has printed 25 quotes from The Hobbit and the Lord of The Rings trilogy. The Quotes can be found here.
Lost footage found from Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings: To read about, and see, the extra footage, from the 1978 animated film, click here.
Philippa Boyens ‘Hobbit’ interview: In a recent interview Boyens, who is co-writer and producer of the Hobbit film trilogy, discussed some facts about the last two films in the trilogy. The interview can be found here.
Click here to see the new trailer for the upcoming ‘LEGO The Hobbit’ game.
You can click here to see a behind the scenes look at how the ‘Desolation of Smaug’ Barrel sequence was compiled.
Although ‘The Hobbit; The Desolation of Smaug’ was only nominated for three technical Oscars, the movie was more successful in regards to some other Awards. The details of the film’s eight Saturn Award nominations can be found here, and you can go here to read about ‘The Desolation of Smaug’s seven Empire Award nominations.
You can click here to learn more about how Smaug was brought to life in the films and here to see a motion-capture performance of Smaug by Benedict Cumberbatch.
Weta Digital’s Senior Effects Supervisor, Joe Letteri, was recently interviewed concerning his eighth Oscar nomination, this one for the special effects used in the second Hobbit movie. The interview, carried by Studio Daily, can be found here.
`The Hobbit; The Desoltion of Smaug`has just one the VES (Visual Effects Society) Award for “Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Feature Motion Picture thanks to the work done in animating Smaug. The complete list of winners can be found here.
Details of the extra contents found in the Collector`s Edition DVD box set of `The Hobbit; The Desolation of Smaug`, which will be released in the US on April 8th, can be found here.
The ASIFA-Hollywood Awards ceremony took place on Saturday and the ANNIE for ‘Outstanding Achievement, Character Animation in a Live Action Production] was awarded to WETA Digital for the animation of Gollum.
The complete list of winners can be found here.
Most English speakers want to pronounce it to rhyme with ‘fog’, but in this article in Arrant Pedantry we are given the proper pronunciation of ‘Smaug’ and an explanation of the reasons for so many people having difficulty with the pronunciation.
Details of the 3 nominations can be found here, and a list of all of today’s nominations can be found here.
Click here to view Wellington Airport’s new Hobbit Movie themed overhead display.
Peter Jackson has made a cameo appearance in each of his Middle-Earth based movies. In case you missed them you can see them all compiled right here.
