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It’s a good bet that Orlando Bloom will be in the Hobbit.
When asked by MTV News if he would be joining his “LOTR” castmates, in The Hobbit, Orlando Bloom responded with; “I’m going to bet on it”. Bloom has also admitted to being among the privileged few that have already read the script.
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Rob Kazinsky no longer to play Fili
Peter Jackson has just let us know via his Facebook Page that Rob Kazinski, who had been cast as Fili, has left the cast of The Hobbit.
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Ian Holm confirmed in cast of The Hobbit
Peter Jackson, on his
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Cate Blanchett confirms that she’ll appear in ‘The Hobbit
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The Hobbit labor dispute; a filmmaker’s response
In his blog at stuff.co.nz filmmaker Chas Harris gives his take on the labor dispute that almost led to production of The Hobbit being moved away from New Zealand.
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The First Hobbit Behind The Scenes Video Blog
CinemaBlend.com reports that Peter Jackson has just released the first of many video blogs concerning the behind the scenes work on The Hobbit. The highly informative 10:39 video can be found here on Peter Jackson’s Facebook Page.
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The Hobbit Labor Dispute; a summary of Events
Do you recall last year’s labor dispute, when the Screen Actor’s Guild set up a boycott of The Hobbit, and PJ threatened to take the production elsewhere? In this Scoop article Helen Kelly, President of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions, provides a comprehensive account of this contentious industrial dispute.
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Elijah Wood on The Hobbit
In this interview at ComingSoon.net Elijah Wood reveals that he has yet to see the script for The Hobbit movies but he is looking forward to returning to New Zealand around November or December of this year. His response to whether he’ll get a “hobbit” tattoo in addition to his LotR one was; “Yeah, right…
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Mare purchased for appearance in The Hobbit
The elves are supposed to be really tall and thin so the horses to be used by them have to be quite stocky to accentuate that. With those characteristics in mind, Claire, an eleven year old, part Clydesdale, mare, has just been purchased by the movies’ main animal wrangler. For more information head to this…
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High Speed Hobbit
Peter Jackson will be shooting The Hobbit at 47.96 frames per second. What does this mean?, well it’s a higher rate than is normally used and James Cameron (director of Avatar) has described the effect as follows; “If watching a 3D movie is like looking through a window, then [with this] we’ve taken the glass…
