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Hugo Weaving on Hobbit special effects
Things have changed in Middle-Earth over the last decade. Infamously known for his exhaustive use of practical effects in conjunction with CGI enhancements, Peter Jackson is shaking things up and going a bit more contemporary...
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Doug Adams confirms Hobbit scoring sessions have begun
Earlier this week, fan-favorite, music-centric author Doug Adams confirmed to the world that Howard Shore has officially commenced the recording sessions for Peter Jackson‘s Hobbit trilogy. Shore, whose three-time, Oscar-winning work on the original Lord...
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Hugo Weaving on returning to Middle-Earth
It’s been well over a decade since Peter Jackson and his crew began filming what would eventually become The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but with so many of the same faces popping back up...
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EW calls Gollum #10 most vile villain ever
Who’d have thought that a character created entirely through motion capture could be considered more evil than both Heath Ledger‘s Joker from The Dark Knight and Jack Nicholson‘s Jack Torrance from The Shining? Entertainment Weekly,...
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Benedict Cumberbatch talks isolated Hobbit shoot
Benedict Cumberbatch is undoubtedly on the rise. Coming off of his continued success as the titular hero on the BBC series Sherlock and a role in Steven Spielberg‘s War Horse, audiences may soon find it...
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Peter Jackson identifies with hobbits
When Peter Jackson called Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein 17 years ago about the possibility of adapting J.R.R. Tolkien‘s The Hobbit into a feature film, he never expected it to eventually lead him to where he is...