Posted on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 by Angie Han
J.R.R. Tolkien fans already got a nice holiday gift earlier this week when the gorgeous first trailer for The Hobbit was released on Tuesday, but Peter Jackson wasn’t done playing Santa. The director took to his Facebook wall a couple of days ago to promise an additional “Christmas treat” to mark the ten-year anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as well as promote the two Hobbit films, and finally revealed his big surprise — the fifth production video from the set of The Hobbit — earlier today. (Which I think technically makes it a Festivus present rather than a Christmas one, but we’ll let that slide.) Watch the video after the jump.
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The internet is full of gold, if only one knows where to look. A college acquaintance who grew up in Moscow once told me of a televised Russian version of The Hobbit that he saw in the ’80s. It sounded crazy, but he barely even remembered the details, and I had next to nothing to search, not to mention that this was in the early days of the internet, when full videos weren’t so easy to find.
But now, with the release of the trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the mid-80s version of The Hobbit is coming up once more. Now it is just a bit easier to find, and you can see it below. Peter Jackson should be worried, because this may just be the definitive version of the tale. Read More »
Ten years ago this week The Fellowship of the Ring was released. Peter Jackson‘s first Tolkien adaption silenced a great many naysayers who said J.R.R. Tolkien‘s novels could never be properly translated to film. It also fostered a mainstream interest in fantasy movies that continues a decade later.
The development of a film based on Tolkien’s original Middle-Earth novel, The Hobbit, was the subject of speculation as soon as Jackson started work on The Lord of the Rings. Actually making the movie was a terrifically complicated process that involved rights deals, the financial solvency of MGM, a long period of development under original director Guillermo del Toro, and the eventual return of Peter Jackson to the director’s chair.
Now the first teaser trailer — a long teaser, at that — has been released for the first of two films based on the novel. Get the first look at footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, after the break. Read More »
What has caught the eye of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman)? It’s like he’s staring over my shoulder at some approaching wonder. It’s probably not footage from the movie in which he stars, and perhaps we’ll find out what he sees when that footage is unveiled. In fact, we’ll see the first trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey tonight at 10pm EST / 7pm PST, and I’m very much looking forward to Peter Jackson‘s return to Middle-Earth. While you wait, check out the full image below. Read More »
It’s been a few months since we saw a video dispatch from the set of Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit. For the new video blog, it’s all about the mechanics of making the movie. There’s some relatively technical stuff in this particular video, as Jackson and his crew explain just how they go about shooting 3D at 48 frames per second with two Red EPIC cameras and a mirror system. Most of the tech details will be familiar to anyone who has really studied the tech, but there is great material here with respect to the effort that goes into making an effects-heavy movie look as real as possible.
And Jackson is, as always, good at explaining what he’s doing, and it is illuminating to see just how the crew of The Hobbit has adapted tech to its own particular needs.
Plus, there is a lot of good new footage of certain cast members in action — you’ll see the aftereffects of an encounter with Mirkwood spiders, and you’ll see Martin Freeman in costume as Bilbo, as well as several of the company of dwarfs. Check it out below. Read More »
Posted on Friday, July 22nd, 2011 by Angie Han
With this year’s summer movie season winding down, it’s time to look forward to upcoming entertainments. Today, we’ve got new photos from this December’s The Darkest Hour and next spring’s Snow White, as well as a composite photo from the highly anticipated The Hobbit adaptation. Check ‘em out after the jump.
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The bad news is, there is no video presentation of footage from The Hobbit in the offing at Comic Con this week. I’m not sure that anyone really thought that such a thing was likely, but with Steven Spielberg showing up for Tintin, implying that his co-conspirator on that film, Peter Jackson, would be here as well, some thought there was an outside chance that Mr. Jackson would take the stage in Hall H to show off footage from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. But we’ll have to make do with recent pictures of many dwarfs and this new video production diary, which launched in lieu of a Comic Con appearance. Read More »
This is what happens when a production spaces the reveal of a baker’s dozen major characters over the span of a week: the head honcho doesn’t even get his own post. We’ve seen five photos showing ten of the dwarf company that treks from the Shire to the Misty Mountain in Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and now here’s the first look at Richard Armitage as the dwarf leader, Thorin Oakenshield. (The others: Dori, Nori & Ori; Oin & Gloin; Fili & Kili, Bofur, Bombur & Bifur; Balin & Dwalin.)
Along with that, we’ve got the first official image of another authoritative figure: Judge Dredd, played by Karl Urban in the appropriately-titled Dredd. Read More »
