Premier Pop C Pop Culture News – Movies, Comics, Television, Books, Toys, Games, and More The second trailer for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has just been released. The first trailer was an all too brief look at the upcoming Christmas release. This second trailer is extended and we get a better feel for what looks like an action filled ride. …
Read More »Production Begins on “The Hobbit.”
Production has commenced in Wellington, New Zealand, on “The Hobbit,” filmmaker Peter Jackson’s two film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s widely read masterpiece. “The Hobbit” is set in Middle-earth 60 years before Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the …
Read More »The Hobbit Adds Two More Dwarves
Casting for the Hobbit is now in full swing, with two more names added to The Company of Dwarves in James Nesbitt and newcomer Adam Brown, according to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog. James Nesbitt, best known as Jeckyll in the BBC’s Jeckyll and Hyde, will be playing a …
Read More »Jackson Finds His Bilbo Baggins and Then Some
As Peter Jackson and Warner Brothers figure out where they’ll be shooting Parts 1 and 2 of the Hobbit, word has started to spread that Jackson has cast some of the many characters to be seen in both films, according to Deadline. The key role of Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit …
Read More »Peter Jackson to Direct “The Hobbit” in Two Installments
The two films based on “The Hobbit” are now greenlit and will begin principal photography in February 2011, under the direction of Peter Jackson, it was jointly announced today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer, New Line Cinema, Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros., and …
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