Amazon’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series will shoot in New Zealand

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Amazon Studios' Lord of the Ring series will be filmed in the lush green forests of none other than New Zealand. The streaming platform announced today that production on the series will begin in Auckland in the coming months. Few details have been r...

Family Seeks Social Media For Help To Let Terminally Ill Father To See Hobbit Before He Passes

Posted on 13/10/2014 by jason

The last of the Hobbit films is hitting theaters this December after running since 2001 with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy being brought to life by director Peter Jackson.Since then one family has...

Hobbit Title Renamed to "The Battle of The Five Armies"

Posted on 26/04/2014 by jason

After talks with WB Studios and careful consideration, Director Peter Jackson has decided to rename the final Hobbit movie from its original title of "There and Back Again" to "The Battle of the Five...

Final Hobbit Movie Gets Official Title

Posted on 25/04/2014 by jason

The final movie of the Hobbit trilogy has an official name to go with it. Peter Jackson confirmed that the movie will no longer be called The Hobbit: There and Back Again. The new title...

Rumor: ‘District 9’ Director To Direct ‘Halo’ TV Series Pilot

Posted on 28/01/2014 by forbes

Direct Neill Blomkamp, the man behind the camera for the excellent sci-fi film District 9, may be returning to the ‘Halo’ universe. Blomkamp, along with producer Peter Jackson, was previously...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to receive the Dolby Atmos treatment

Posted on 24/10/2012 by Jamie Rigg

The CinemaCon crowd may not have been keen on 48fps footage of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but we defy anyone to say they don't want the best sound possible. A select few will get just that, as Dolby and Peter Jackson's own Park Road Post Production have announced the film will be mixed for the speaker-packed Atmos technology. If you're lucky enough to live near one of the select establishments it's installed in, we doubt you'll be grumbling about the immersive audio, even if the frame rate makes those orcs look unsettlingly real.

Update: That link of "select establishments" is somewhat out of date and, although the official list of locations you'll be able to see The Hobbit in Atmos has yet to be released, Dolby says there should be between 80 and 100 screens capable of delivering the over-the-top audio experience by the film's debut.

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Peter Jackson’s 48 fps version of The Hobbit said to be a ‘limited release’ only

Posted on 09/08/2012 by Edgar Alvarez

All told, we can't deny Peter Jackson's caused some madness since announcing the scheme to shoot his upcoming Hobbit film at a high frame-rate, rather than sticking with the more common 24 fps, Hollywood-style method. Regardless, rumor now has it Warner Bros. is supposedly planning a "limited release" of the 48 fps version because, according to Variety, the studio "wants to protect the format" by choosing to go the select-viewing route -- that said, WB's allegedly hoping to "expand the HFR release for the second and third installments." Still, nothing's set in stone just yet, so we'd hold off on throwing any temper tantrums (or celebrating, depending on which side you're on) until we hear something official from Warner.

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Comic-Con fans go crazy over Hobbit teaser, but not the 48fps version

Posted on 16/07/2012 by Steve Dent

Two different audiences and two very different screenings. After unfamiliar 48fps Hobbit footage was pretty universally panned back at Cinema-Con, Peter Jackson decided to play it safe and show Comic-Con fans the traditional low frame-rate teaser. Their response? They loved it. Which would, you'd think, give the head hobbit a clear message: his film works better without the wacky frame rate, but that's just not how he sees it. Writing on his Facebook page, he said "I've always been happy to bet on myself" and the 48fps version of Hobbit is "something really special" when you watch the entire movie. In other words, he's sticking to his orc sword, and in the meantime we're left to wonder what would have happened if the Comic-Con crowd -- who are perhaps more his kind of people than Cinema-Con goers -- had been shown the tricked out footage.

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Editorial: Despite shaky 48 fps Hobbit preview, high frame rates will take off

Posted on 28/05/2012 by Steve Dent

Well actually, the Hobbit preview wasn't shaky, it was smooth -- maybe too smooth -- and that's the point. "It does take you a while to get used to," Peter Jackson has admitted, referring to the surprisingly fluid motion of his 48 fps movie footage. But is he right to think audiences will even give it a chance? The launch of high frame-rate (HFR) cinema is surrounded by publicity in the run-up to the Hobbit's debut on December 12th, but it equally has a lot going against it. For starters, the film's 48 fps preview wasn't exactly received warmly. On top of that, the video-style apperance of HFR has a long history of being disliked by movie-goers -- past attempts since the 1970s have all flamed out.

85 years after the first 24 fps movies, the same number of frames are still going stubbornly through the gate (digital or otherwise) each second, so that must be what "filmic" is, right? Or will we look back on 24fps as the bad old days? Read on to see if these new/old-fangled frame speeds might survive, and though a 48 fps Hobbit trailer isn't available, we've provided a couple of clips to help you judge what two-dimensional HFR looks like.

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Peter Jackson unfazed by ‘Hobbit’ footage pushback, but will stick to 24 fps for trailers

Posted on 30/04/2012 by Steve Dent

Calm down, cinema-goers. It just takes time to "settle in" to the strange new ultra-realistic world of high frame-rates, according to Peter Jackson, who's been responding to audience's rather strong panning of 48fps rough cuts from his upcoming 3D epic, Hobbit. Viewers' main beefs were the surprising appearance of the higher cadence footage, which almost looked like it was shot on video, as well as blemishes on actors and sets which were all-too-visible without the crutch of motion blur. But Jackson insists that the footage lacked special effects and color correction, and that the showing was perhaps too short to judge the frame-rate -- which is why he also says there'll be no 48 fps trailer. He even adds that he's now "very aware of the strobing, the flicker and the artifacts" when he's watching regular 24fps cinema -- so the real struggle for audiences might not be adjusting to the new way, but going back to the old.

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