11:17 pm - 09/01/2012
Third 'Hobbit' release date
The third film in Peter Jackson's new Hobbit trilogy has been given a release date.
The Lord of the Rings director last month confirmed rumours that there were plans to turn what was initially a two-part story into a trilogy.
According to The Wrap, the third Hobbit film - now titled There and Back Again - will debut worldwide on July 18, 2014.
Head of distribution for Warner Bros Dan Fellman said that the summer release was because "opening in July affords us not only the perfect summer tentpole, but fans will have less time to wait for the finale of this epic adventure".
The first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, is to be released on December 14, while the second film - now titled The Desolation of Smaug - opens on December 13, 2013.
Smaug the dragon is portrayed by Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, who recently confirmed that his role is much more prominent in the second instalment, saying: "I think my eye might open at the end of the first film, and then you'll get the rest of me in the second."
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Still not happy how they went about this/about Freeman but honestly I'd go see this film if they split it into a twenty parts so what can you do?
(though I do maintain that if they are happy to take so many liberties they should work Viggo in there somehow. Viggo for Bilbo Baggins, it isn't too late.)
The Lord of the Rings director last month confirmed rumours that there were plans to turn what was initially a two-part story into a trilogy.
According to The Wrap, the third Hobbit film - now titled There and Back Again - will debut worldwide on July 18, 2014.
Head of distribution for Warner Bros Dan Fellman said that the summer release was because "opening in July affords us not only the perfect summer tentpole, but fans will have less time to wait for the finale of this epic adventure".
The first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, is to be released on December 14, while the second film - now titled The Desolation of Smaug - opens on December 13, 2013.
Smaug the dragon is portrayed by Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch, who recently confirmed that his role is much more prominent in the second instalment, saying: "I think my eye might open at the end of the first film, and then you'll get the rest of me in the second."
SOURCE
Still not happy how they went about this/about Freeman but honestly I'd go see this film if they split it into a twenty parts so what can you do?
(though I do maintain that if they are happy to take so many liberties they should work Viggo in there somehow. Viggo for Bilbo Baggins, it isn't too late.)
Hollywood DOES remember that it made a 2-hour movie from Les Miserables? Which is about 43242394234 pages?
It's so transparently about money that it makes me queasy, bleh.
in other news
lol
Edited at 2012-09-01 11:06 pm (UTC)
example 1:
“When I moved up here this woman I know said, ‘Ooh! There are a lot of whiteys up there’, and I said, ‘I love white people; I’ve no problem with them at all.”
The idea was that I was going to complain because there weren’t enough blues dances out here; not enough ragga around. But I’m not bothered by it.
“Multiculturalism hasn’t and doesn’t help, because rightly or wrongly it polarises people so much,” he continues.
“Racism is one thing ? and I don’t agree with that in any form ? but noticing that there are differences is normal and fine and to be encouraged.
“We’ve reached a state now where it’s, ‘You shouldn’t notice. Why are you noticing he’s got a bomb and has a beard and is Muslim and wants to kill your family?”
“There is no country in the world like this. If all of a sudden all the traffic wardens in Ghana were Welsh, they’d really notice and might not love it? We give ourselves a hard time in this country in a sort of mea culpa way. But if we were that racist, people wouldn’t come. Very simple.”
example 2:
“I really liked hip-hop until the gangsta rap took over. I come from a time when not every rap record was ‘nigga’ this and ‘nigga’ that; an earlier socially and morally conscious hip-hop sensibility, when it was, ‘Don’t call people nigga’.”
“But now it’s nigga, nigga, nigga, and it’s not funny or interesting politically, artistically or socially. I really don’t like it.”
more sexy Richard/Aidan dwarfness for me
I'll reserve judgement on the splitting into three when I have watched the first movie. I'm quite trusting when it comes to Peter Jackson and even moreso Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. Their contribution to the trilogy really gave the story a heart and soul, I think.
That said, I'm still paying to see it. NHF a summer release too but I will deal.