Jackson joins a group of celebrity investors who have now already contributed a total of $235 million to help Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences bring back the extinct creatures.
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Simon Sinek must be overjoyed at someone finally finding ‘the why’.
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Amazon Prime chose the Super Bowl to finally lift the lid on its long-awaited series, ‘The Rings of Power’.
A majority of the 25 highest-paid entertainers earned a combined $4,4 billion (before taxes and fees) without creating anything new.
After realising that the hustle and bustle of city life wasn’t for him, Nicolas Gentile decided that he would live like a hobbit in the countryside.
Weinstein’s company, Miramax, was the initial holder of film rights to JRR Tolkein’s book series.
For 37-year-old Nicolas Gentile, escaping in the pages of a book wasn’t quite enough, so he started living as a hobbit in the Italian countryside.
Peter Jackson did a pretty fine job of bringing J. R. R. Tolkien’s words to life. The same cannot be said for this version, though.
Andy Serkis will always be remembered for this portrayal of Gollum in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ franchise. Now he’s reprised the role to make a point.
Rare audio tapes of Tolkien have been found to reignite your Hobbitesque desires.
J.R.R. Tolkien might have imagined it, but it took Danish programmers for us to see it from space. It’s called The Middle-Earth DEM Project and will have fantasy nerds walking their way from the Shire to Mordor in no time.
Will they be releasing an extended edition of The Hobbit trilogy? It seems as though that’s already happening. If anything, there will be a special director’s cut, which will probably get a cinema release, drawing all of the films together in the space of three-and-a-half hours. If not, there will undoubtedly be a fan-made version […]
In what is no doubt some sort of elaborate marketing ploy for the new Hobbit movie, Google is allowing us to fly through Middle Earth using Google Earth technology.
The wait is almost over for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s prequel to Lord of the Rings. The film is due for worldwide release in December.
There’s an old Southampton pub called The Hobbit under threat from the company that controls Lord of the Rings licensing. The company eventually agreed to sell the pub a license to keep using the name it has had for decades. Stephen Fry and Ian McKellan decided this was stupid, so they paid the fee themselves.
Thousands of politically-minded Kiwis have come out in protest to prevent production of the Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit, from moving out of New Zealand. I understand completely – I went through the same thing when my parents made me stop wearing my wizard outfit to school.