Aspiring actors, disillusioned suburbanites, and little plastic men figure in today's edition of Sequel Bits. After the jump: The Fight Club comic book sequel launches in May China and France will get to see Taken 3 in 3D Pirates of the Caribbean 5 adds a few more mates Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has a new…
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With the last teaser poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the Warner Bros. marketing team quite consciously called back to Peter Jackson's earlier Lord of the Rings trilogy. The portrait of a sword-wielding Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) was of a piece with the posters for Fellowship of the Rings and Return of the King,…
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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…
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At this point what more is there to say about yet another dwarf reveal from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey? (Other than, perhaps, "uh, where's Thorin?") Here is the latest image dispatch from Peter Jackson's version of Middle-Earth, featuring Ken Stott as Balin (on the left) and Graham McTavish as Dwalin. These two guys are…
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We can probably expect to see a good many materials for The Hobbit before it opens a year and a half from now. We've seen a few images of Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and Gandalf (Ian McKellen) with a few of the company of dwarves in the background of one image. Now here's a promo photo…
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Warner Bros/New Line Cinema and MGM have announced the start of production on The Hobbit in New Zealand, which includes a full update on the signed cast (many of which have been previously announced or rumored, but a couple new additions): Martin Freeman takes the title role as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen returns in…
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Warner Bros has just officially confirmed that James Nesbitt (Bloody Sunday, Millions, Waking Ned Devine) and newcomer Adam Brown have joined the cast of Peter Jackson's big screen adaptation of The Hobbit. Nesbitt will play Bofur, "a disarmingly forthright, funny and occasionally brave Dwarf." Brown will play Ori, "another of the Dwarf Company which sets…
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