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Yesterday, at CinemaCon, in a move designed to encourage theater owners to embrace the new 48 FPS technology. Peter Jackson showed a 10 minute preview of The Hobbit. Click on this article in Entertainment Weekly to read about the reactions to the new technology.
Luke Evans, who plays Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson’s upcoming Hobbit movies, was recently interviewed by Collider.com. To read the portion of the interview concerning Evans’ role in ‘The Hobbit’ movies click here .
Harper Collins Publishers has acquired exclusive worldwide publishing rights from Warner Bros. for tie-in books to the two highly anticipated Peter Jackson films while Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the U.S. publishing rights from HarperCollins.
For the article about Harper Collins click here and for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt click here .
According to Stephen Fry’s tweets, he’s now finished filming his final scene and will soon be heading home after spending several months in New Zealand playing the Master of Laketown. Stephen Fry’s twitter account can be found here .
Bluewater Productions’ latest biography, that of author J.R.R. Tolkien, is to be released on May 30th and will only be sold in Comic Book stores,
For more information click here
Click here to see the new stills recently posted on director Peter Jackson’s Facebook page
Sir Ian Mckellen will be putting his May and June weekends to fine use, He will be touring New Zealand and putting on an interactive one man show to raise funds to restore the earthquake damaged theatre. For more information, click to the Scoop Media article, found here.
Today, March 25th, is ‘Tolkien Reading Day” and The Tolkien Society is inviting everyone to join in celebrating the 75th anniversary of the publication of ‘The Hobbit’. For more information click here.
As reported in The Examiner; in a heartwarming resolution to The Hobbit pubs’s licensing legal drama, actors Stephen Fry and Sir Ian McKellen have announced that they’ll be funding the annual $100 licensing fee required for the Southampton pub to retain its name and Tolkien theme. This was announced through the pub’s Twitter feed, which also simply said:
We are a happy pub.
The entire article can be found here.
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