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Benedict Cumberbatch has just received a unique honor. No, it's not an Oscar, Emmy or Tony award, it's a chocolate bunny. Just in time for Easter, a chocolatier has put the future Doctor Strange's likeness on the popular holiday confection. Read More »
Martin Freeman, best known for his roles as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit" trilogy and John Watson in BBC's "Sherlock," was announced as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe last year, but his character had remained a closely guarded secret ever since. Finally, months before his MCU début in "Captain America: Civil War," it turns out he's playing Everett Ross, a character from Black Panther comics! Read More »
Cate Blanchett will be making her Broadway debut this winter. The 46-year old current Best Actress Oscar nominee for Carol will star in The Present, a play written by her husband, screenwriter Andrew Upton. The show is an adaption of Anton Chekhov's Platonov which has already been in production to sold-out audiences at the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia for which Blanchett and Upton have served as co-artistic directors. Read More »
Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr are showing other couples how it is done. Even though the star of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and the Victoria's Secret Angel have called it quits, they are still making their relationship work for the sake of their son. Their 3-year-old son Flynn will be able to spend the holidays with not only daddy but also with mommy, and it will all be under the same roof. Read More »
Apparently The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings writer-director Peter Jackson has more to celebrate this Christmas than the Dec 17 release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Word has it that the famed New Zealand-born and bred name will receive his very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this coming Dec. 8. Read More »
Get ready to tear up. After six films and 14 years, our journey in Middle Earth is coming to end, and now you watch the brand new spine-tingling video of Middle Earth's final farewell from Pippin (Billy Boyd) delivered in 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' song 'Last Goodbye'. Read More »
The ninth annual edition of New York Comic Con descended upon the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, filling the venue with fans of popular culture — from comic books to movies and TV shows to anime. Major highlights included a sneak peek at the final "Hobbit" movie, the 75th anniversary celebration of Batman and the cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Here are the top 10 things you had to experience at this year's con: Read More »
For as much as people enjoy spending money to go see "The Hobbit" franchise films, they equally love to torrent and illegally download the films. According to TorrentFreak.com, the trilogy's first movie "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" was the most downloaded film of the year. Read More »
One of the biggest YouTube hits of all time has to be Leonard Nimoy's song from the 1960's that was inspired by the J.R.R. Tolkien book, The Hobbit. Considering the latest film on this subject came out this week, the cast of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug embraced Nimoy's song, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins," and performed a dramatic reading of the lyrics while promoting the new film. The results are amazing. Read More »
Peter Jackson is the director set to helm the Tintin sequel, but this project seems to have fallen off of everyone's radar considering we haven't heard too much about it in a while. So is Jackson still planning on making the sequel or is it moving into someone else's hands? According to a new interview with Jackson, he's still planning on making the sequel but his Hobbit movies got in the way! Read More »
This is a big week for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. First we were treated to an extended, extra-long trailer for the upcoming Peter Jackson film and then singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran shared his new song "I See Fire" from the movie's soundtrack! Though these are great updates for the film, 20 minutes of footage from the upcoming movie were shown worldwide at special Desolation of Smaug celebration events in cities like New York, Sydny, Los Angeles, London and more! Read More »
Having a big name in music attached to an equally big movie soundtrack is always a great idea for both parties. So when 2013 breakout singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran this week announced that his newest song, "I See Fire," would appear exclusively on the soundtrack of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a perfect match was made. Sheeran announced the news on his Twitter account, complete with iTunes download information. Read More »
Last month, Warner Brothers Studios and Peter Jackson premiered a brand new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. In it, we got our first look at Smaug, the main antagonist of the J.R.R. Tolkien story, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch. Though it was just a short tease, this week we can watch a brand new trailer that is over three minutes long. We now have an even bigger look at the next chapter of Jackson's Hobbit franchise, opening December 13. Read More »
