Peter Jackson has announced this week that they are opening the casting nets to all for all the roles in “The Hobbit”, the prequel to the “Lord Of The Rings” trilogy, except for Ian McKellen as Gandalf. Jackson talks about [...]
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The First Hobbit Script Has Been Completed
Peter Jackson recently sat down for an interview about The Lovely Bones (directed by Jackson and starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz), during which - Jackson confirmed that the script for the first Hobbit film had been completed, [...]
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Brian Cox Could Be Playing a Dwarf In THE HOBBIT
According to AICN, the producers of The Hobbit have started casting "dwarves", and their "tried and trusted sources" say that one person of interest that they want to cast is Brian Cox. He is reportedly a major contender for a [...]
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Del Toro Casts Himself in THE HOBBIT and Mortensen May Appear In The Sequel
Del Toro recently spoke with German television, and said that he will be casting himself in The Hobbit as a creature: "...not an important one, just a background guy." Over at The One Ring message boards the story was picked up, prompting [...]
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Guillermo Del Toro Talks About THE HOBBIT and Working On Smaug
Writer/Director Guillermo del Toro has done a pretty good job of keeping a lid on anything to do with “The Hobbit”. He is still in pre-production for “The Hobbit” and doesn’t begin shooting his back-to-back films until late spring 2010. [...]
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McKellen Has Read The Hobbit Script And Loves It!
Ian McKellen received his copy of the first draft of "The Hobbit" in September, and now two months later he shared his thoughts; “As Peter has said, they loved writing Gandalf because they knew who they were writing him for,” [...]
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Splice: Clip and a Peek Behind the Scenes
Splice is a horror thriller executive produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Vincenzo Natali. The film stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as Clive and Elsa - superstars of the genetic engineering world. They specialize in splicing together DNA [...]
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Disney and Guillermo del Toro “Double Dare You”
Disney and Guillermo Del Toro are teaming up to scare the crap out of kids everywhere. They are launching a new production label, Double Dare You, to develop animated features that are darker than the average Disney, family films. All [...]
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Guillermo del Toro Producing DC Comics ‘Dead Man’ Movie
Guillermo del Toro is developing and producing an adaptation of the DC Comics character Deadman. Warner Brothers has apparently set Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel (Island of Lost Souls) to direct. The film will follow a a circus tightrope walker who is murdered [...]
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‘Radcliffe’ Says “Thanks But No Thanks” To ‘The Hobbit’
Daniel Radcliffe has insisted that he has no interest in playing the lead character in The Hobbit. The 20-year-old Harry Potter star was rumored (along with James McAvoy and David Tennant) to be in consideration for the role of Bilbo Baggins [...]
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Get Schooled On Vampires By Guillermo Del Toro And Chuck Hogan
Originally printed in the New York Times, this article by Guillermo Del Toro (director for Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy I & II, Blade II) and Chuck Hogan explain our love affair with vampires. "Why Vampires Never Die" - Guillermo del Toro and Chuck [...]
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Reconstruction Of ‘The Shire’ Is Underway
They have begun reconstruction on the village where Bilbo Baggins, Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee live for the upcoming 'Hobbit' movies. It's pretty cool to see this being constructed again 7 years after The Lord of the Rings - Return [...]
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