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Top 10 Books That Should Become Film Trilogies

Posted 13 years ago

The second chapter of Peter Jackson’s enhanced trilogy based on THE HOBBIT, THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG looks to amp up the events of the first movie while supplementing the story with J.R.R. Tolkien’s additional appendices. Once the third and final...

Cool Videos: Sesame Street meets Middle Earth in The Lord of the Crumbs

Posted 13 years ago

With THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG opening in a couple of days, it is perfect timing for the greatest honor any film can have: a spoof on Sesame Street. As part of their ongoing segment with Cookie Monster in...

Cool Videos: The first Hobbit gets the Honest Trailer treatment

Posted 13 years ago

It is THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG week! With only a few more days until it opens everywhere it seems like the perfect time to go back and reflect on THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY. What better way to...

Skins’ Jack O’Connell rumored to be up for a role in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII

Posted 13 years ago

Yup, another STAR WARS: EPISODE VII rumor has surfaced, this time over at Bleeding Cool. The site is reporting that English actor Jack O'Connell (television's Skins, HARRY BROWN, TOWER BLOCK) is a "real contender for a key role" in the...

Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Posted 13 years ago

PLOT: Furthering Bilbo Baggins and his company of Dwarves adventures through Middle-earth, the ragtag group discovers that their journey is getting more and more treacherous. On this quest to take back the Lonely Mountain from the dark and powerful dragon...

Disney has obtained full future rights to Indiana Jones from Paramount

Posted 13 years ago

Back when Disney purchased Lucasfilm and the announcement was made that STAR WARS would be getting a new lease on life we were all left wondering what that meant for the future of Indiana Jones. Unlike STAR WARS, Indiana Jones...

Jon Favreau to direct the pilot for MTV’s fantasy series Shannara

Posted 13 years ago

As networks and studios try to find the next GAME OF THRONES or LORD OF THE RINGS, hundreds of fantasy series are getting second looks in the hopes they could be the next success story. Terry Brooks’ SHANNARA series consists...

Italian poster for I, Frankenstein has Aaron Eckhart in familiar pose

Posted 13 years ago

The promo push for I, FRANKENSTEIN is starting to ramp up quite a bit. Earlier this week we caught the first TV spot for the flick, a new Russian banner, and now, an Italian one-sheet for the Aaron Eckhart vehicle...

Life of Pi writer David Magee to script Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair

Posted 13 years ago

After three films, most recent being 2010’s THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER, C.S. Lewis’ beloved fantasy series is preparing a fourth chapter. It was previously announced that The Mark Gordon Company would be taking over...

New production blog from Peter Jackson focuses on the making of Smaug for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Posted 13 years ago

The next chapter in Peter Jackson's THE HOBBIT trilogy, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG hits theaters next week and the director has release the penultimate production blog for the film, which focuses on the making of the titular dragon,...

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