Peter Jackson's hometown to host "The Hobbit" world premiere

Director Peter Jackson recently announced that the first Hobbit film will be premiered at his hometown of Wellington in New Zealand.

Wellington will host the world premiere of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Andy Serkis, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Jackson stated that Warner Bros. decided to have the world premiere party in Wellington after being "blown away" by "The Return of the King" world premiere back in 2003.

The premiere is set to happen in November 2012; after then the first Hobbit film will be released worldwide on December 13th, 2012. The second film titled "The Hobbit: There And Back Again" is set to be released in December of 2013.

SOURCES: THR

Meet Ori, Dori and Nori from the film "The Hobbit"

The much awaited Peter Jackson film, The Hobbit has started filming and we've been seeing glimpse of the movies from the set through the films official Facebook page.

The picture above is the latest of the teasers posted and showing three characters- dwarves that did not appear in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The dwarves are brothers Nori (Jed Brophy), Ori (Adam Brown) and Dori (Mark Hadlow.) "These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be more different from each other," according to the image's description.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is scheduled to be released on the 14th of December, 2014. It stars Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. The second part of The Hobbit film, The Hobbit: There And Back Again will debut on December 13th, 2013.

SOURCE: Daily Mail

Filming for "The Hobbit" Finally Starts

Filming for Sir Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is finally on the way after months of delay caused by Jackson's surgery, funding problems and issues with actors' wages.

Filming for both The Hobbit movies is said to take up to two years. Production will be taking place in New Zealand at Stone Street Studios, Wellington.

The Hobbit stars The Office's Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins. Freeman can also be seen in BBC's brilliant series Sherlock in which he played Dr. John Watson. Freeman will be joined by The Lord of the Rings veterans Sir Ian McKellen (Gandalf the Grey), Andy Serkis (Gollum), Elijah Wood (Frodo) and Cate Blanchett (Galadriel).

The first Hobbit movie is due out in late 2012.

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The Hobbit is that one step closer to hitting our screens...

Drama, drama, drama! Not many movies go through this amount of drama and still get produced at the end of the day, but it seems that Peter Jackson's adaptation of JRR Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' has more than 9 lives.

A large group of the primary cast are already in New Zealand and posed for a photo after a press conference, with Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins) up front. Sadly, no Elijah in the group (but we do know that he is coming back as Frodo) or Orlando (he's not confirmed & his IMDB page still says 'rumored') and director Peter Jackson was on forced bed rest after surgery but was quoted as saying "I'd love to be with you all this morning, but I'm currently under a medical form of house arrest to prevent me from overdoing it, until fully recovered from my recent operation, I'll be jumping back into it very soon" No doubt he'll be needing the rest before throwing himself into the grueling schedule that will see them film the 2 films back to back.

Now that a filming schedule has been finalised, release dates have been tentatively set for 2012 & 2013.

Check out more casting info from E! here


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"The Hobbit" Cast Announced

After years of waiting for a definitive answer, fans will be thrilled to know that the cast for th film has been announced. Peter Jackson, along with the executives behind the film, have just made the official announcement.

Martin Freeman will be playing the part of protagonist Bilbo Baggins and Richard Armitage will be playing the part of Thoren Oakenshield, who is the head of the Company of Dwarves. Other cast members announced were Aidan Turner, Graham McTavish, John Callen, Stephen Hunter, Mark Hadlow, and Peter Hambleton. Their parts have not yet been released.

Production on the film began earlier this month. The films are set to be released in December 2012 and December 2013.


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