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Tobey Maguire Not Starring in The Hobbit (But He Is Interested)
16 December 2009 1:52 AM, PST
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Producer Peter Jackson recently stated that a "casting sweep" was underway for the lead part in his production of The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings (Lotr). However, despite Jackson's comment that the Lotr movies are not "star-driven," a new rumor has been making headlines by linking one of Hollywood's most-successful franchise actors to the role of the adventurous Hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
Popular film site Latino Review reported on Monday that Tobey Maguire's (Brothers) recent comments about wanting to work with director Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) referred to his involvement with The Hobbit.
Could Peter Parker be playing Bilbo Baggins?
I checked with agency sources and yep, it's true!
Apparently, we're in the early stages of talks between CAA and the producers of the Hobbit film for Tobey to topline the film as Bilbo Baggins!
The news quickly became a topic of blog posts and forum
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Best of the Decade #11: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
15 December 2009 7:15 AM, PST
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If you told me as I left the theater from the first entry in The Lord of the Rings trilogy that I’d eventually be writing up an explanation of it as one of the best films of the decade, I’d have said you were crazy. Yes, I initially was not on board with the first of this now beloved set of films. Several revisits of the extended edition have turned me into a believer, even as I continue to make lame jokes about Sam and Frodo’s relationship, walking, and why they should have taken the stupid eagles to Mordor instead. Although it is still the second and third films that I personally prefer, it is The Fellowship of the Ring that sets the table, and thus represents the trilogy on our top 20 list.
Without the passion and dedication of Peter Jackson, I don’t see how this
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Lord Of The Rings Set For Blu-Ray Bow
15 December 2009 4:29 AM, PST
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“One Blu-ray to rule them all, one Blu-ray to find them. One Blu-ray to bring them all and in the darkness find them.”Don’t know if you noticed, but we cleverly changed the words of J.R.R. Tolkien’s famous verse to celebrate the fact that today, at long, long (long long long) last, it was announced that Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is coming to Blu-ray.Get out your calendars, flip to April, and then put a big old red circle around April 6, for that’s when the trilogy is set to debut in a beautiful nine-disc, three-film package that will retail, in the States, for around a hundred bucks. And no, we have no idea what that is in real money.No word yet on what extras will be on the discs, or indeed if the pic and sound will have been revamped especially for the Blu-format,
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The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy on Blu-ray Available on April 6th!
14 December 2009 9:38 AM, PST
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One of the greatest gifts I’ve received this holiday season is today’s news that I’ll only have to wait four months to get The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy on Blu-ray. Video Business reports that the nine-disc set will go on sale on April 6, 2010 and include the theatrical versions of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King, seven hours of special features (albeit mostly features that were on the original versions), digital copies of each film, and Bd-Live access. The set will retail for $99.98. A couple weeks ago, Peter Jackson told Steve that he wasn’t sure if the Blu-rays would include both the theatrical versions and the extended editions but he was fairly sure it would just be the theatrical versions on the first release. Presumably, this means that Warner Bros. Home Video is already
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How do you cut The Hobbit in half?
11 December 2009 5:01 AM, PST
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Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro have been dropping some heavy hints about their Lord of the Rings prequel, but the important question about splitting it into two parts still remains …
What a strange volte face there has been in the attitudes of Hollywood studios in the last 30 years. Originally, Jrr Tolkien's tales of Middle Earth was a literary series which producers struggled to squeeze into uncomfortably curtailed celluloid confines. These days, they're being encouraged to expand far beyond their natural boundaries.
This week, The Hobbit's writer and producer Peter Jackson revealed the ramifications of the decision he and director Guillermo del Toro made earlier this year to scrap their initial plan for the two-film project. There will be no Saruman, no Aragorn and no Gimli the dwarf, all stalwarts of Lord of the Rings who nevertheless do not feature in Jrr Tolkien's earlier tome. "Gandalf, being a 2,000-year-old wizard,
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The Best Films of the Decade (aka "The Naughties")
8 December 2009 10:25 PM, PST
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Best Films Of The Decade (aka The Naughties) From Alex & Terry
List # 1
By Alex Simon
When Terry and I initially discussed writing these lists, I had a tough time thinking back on 20 films over the past decade which I was really taken with, thinking that movies have sunk so low over the past ten years, that even choosing a dozen would be a short-order job. Thirty minutes into it, my list had nearly 60 titles! After much cutting, pasting, and re-cutting and pasting, here are my top 20 films (in no particular order) of the first decade of the 21st century, dubbed by many as “the naughties.” --A.S.
1.No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers, 2007) An elegiac blend of stark beauty and full-throttle despair from two of our finest filmmakers, set in the contemporary American West. Every frame is damn near flawless, and would have been an even more perfect vehicle for the late Sam Peckinpah.
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The Hobbit Casting Begins This Week
8 December 2009 8:06 AM, PST
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When rumors hit the Net last week that the highly-anticipated adaptation of The Hobbit was being delayed a full year, it wasn’t good news for fans who are dying to see this film on the big-screen. However, we were right to treat it as a rumor, as soon afterward, producer Peter Jackson debunked the rumor, saying that as far as he’s concerned there’s been no delay and the film (Part 1) is still on course for a December 2011 release.
So, with that out of the way, one of the biggest questions hovering over The Hobbit is that of who will bring the characters of the classic fantasy tale to life, most importantly (I think you’ll agree) the role of Bilbo Baggins. Clearly, with the story taking place six decades before The Fellowship of the Ring, they can’t use Ian Holm again. Ian McKellen has said in
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Decade in Review: 2003 Top Ten
8 December 2009 6:30 AM, PST
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As you may have noticed, I will not be done with my Decade in Review until sometime into the new year. Hopefully we'll wrap up shortly after the Oscars; You know how distractingly all-consuming the Oscars can be! I hope you'll stay with it even though the rest of the media will move on any second now. They're always in such a rush. No stopping and smelling of the flowers. I've still got to update that "Actors of the Aughts" project for final compilation/statement. For now, let's move on to 2003. What follows is my original top ten list, based on films released in NYC in 2003. If I have anything new to say that'll be in red after the original text.
Special Mentions: The Cremaster Cycle and Angels in America
Most Underappreciated: Hulk (Ang Lee), In the Cut (Jane Campion), Anything Else (Woody Allen), Charlies Angels: Full Throttle (McG) and
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- NATHANIEL R
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'The Lord Of The Rings' Returns To Radio City Music Hall With 'The Two Towers'
3 December 2009 5:00 PM, PST
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As you probably remember, Radio City Music Hall hosted a cool "Lord of the Rings"-related event in October. The 21st Century Symphony Orchestra, The Collegiate Chorale and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus collaborated in performing the score to "The Fellowship of the Ring" (conducted by Ludwig Wicki) while the movie played on a giant screen behind them.
Well now we've got word that Wicki and the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra will be back to do the show again, only next time it'll be for "The Two Towers," the second film in Peter Jackson's trilogy. Tickets are currently available through a Ticketmaster pre-sale, the code for which you can find on the concert's official website. There's a catch though: we've got a long wait ahead of us. The "Towers" shows will happen next year, on October 8 and 9, 2010. So don't go getting too excited just yet.
Did you attend the "Lord
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'The Hobbit' Delayed Til Mid-2010
1 December 2009 2:05 PM, PST
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The filmic Middle Earth will get a few more months to shake off the proverbial rust before The Hobbit begins shooting. According to a German news site, executive producer Peter Jackson has stated that production of the Lord of the Rings prequel will not start up until mid-2010, several months later than originally anticipated.
"We’re currently working on the second script which we hope to have completed by the end of this year or beginning of next," Jackson told Moviereporter.net, which was in turn translated by TheOneRing.net. "When the scripts are completed, we can begin with the exact calculation of the necessary budget. We hope to start filming in the middle of next year. However, we’ve received no green light from the studio yet."
About a week ago, it was reported that Jackson, Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro, Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh were about halfway through the second script.
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Peter Jackson Updates The Hobbit and Tintin
25 November 2009 5:38 AM, PST
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With his Lovely Bones opening next month, writer-director Peter Jackson spent some time talking with the British press about a few of his upcoming producing projects. One of the most-anticipated is The Hobbit, the sequel to Jackson's Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Jackson told In The News that an initial script has been delivered to the studio.
The Hobbit will be two movies and we've written the first script and
delivered it to the studio who seem to be happy with it. We're now halfway through the second script and Philippa [Boyens],
Fran [Walsh], Guillermo [Del Toro] and myself are doing the scripts and having great fun. It was an interesting experience because eight or nine years have passed since we wrote the Lord of the Rings
screenplays and I was worried it'd be weird or hard or uncomfortable to go back there, but as soon as we started writing the scripts it was
fun,
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10 closest Oscar races in the past 20 years
23 November 2009 1:12 PM, PST
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One of the shrewdest Oscarologists on the planet is Tariq Khan of Fox News, who often generously shares his views of current and past derbies with Gold Derby readers. Here he takes a nostalgic look at the past two decades, offering his take on the most competitive derbies. Words below are Tariq's. Thanks, m'friend!
We’ve often discussed those Oscar races that seem just too close to call . . . where it’s clear (or at least seems clear) that the eventual winner will nab the Oscar with only a few more votes than his or her nearest competitor.
While we can never really know for sure (unless we get one of those top jobs at the accounting firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers,) we do have some idea of what may have been the closest races in Oscar history. Allow me to present what I believe were the 10 closest acting races over the course of the past 20 years.
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What TV or movie death scenes have left you disappointed?
21 November 2009 10:30 AM, PST
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I love a good death scene. Ronald Lacey's Arnold Toht in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Samuel L. Jackson's Russell Franklin in Deep Blue Sea. Sean Bean's Boromir in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. ("My brother...my captain...my king." Cue: me, sobbing.)
So imagine my disappointment upon seeing 2012. (Warning: Spoilers Ahead.) I finally caught up with last weekend's box-office champ, and though I agreed with our critic Lisa Schwarzbaum, finding the film to be a fun spectacle, I couldn't get over one of the most nonsensical and unnecessary death scenes I've seen
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- Kate Ward
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Just What Kind of Monster Is Guillermo del Toro?
18 November 2009 6:49 AM, PST
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While everyone else was trolling around for hints about whom he might pick to play Bilbo, The Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro dropped an unexpected casting bombshell: That he will appear in his own movie. As a monster, no less. Coming from someone who takes his monsters so seriously — heck, he even takes them home as decorations — this promises to be a treat.
Del Toro won't be one of the major monsters; certainly not the dragon Smaug, whom he has spent the better part of a year designing. Like Alfred Hitchcock, he will only make a brief cameo in his movie. Here's what he says about the part:
I had a hand on the design of the creature and I will personally sculpt the appliances that will be applied on my face and hands.... I will have a line or two and die quickly.
So with that in mind, what are the options?
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Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten
17 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST
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What follows is my original top ten list of 2001. We'll discuss each year of the decade over the next month or two (we already did 2000). I do this because I am curious about which films "stick" and which fade and why and maybe you are too? Best year of the decade I think. The top five films would all be valid #1 film choices in some years. New comments are in red.
Note: This list references films released in NYC in 2001, not year of production or year in which they first the hit festival circuit or whatnot.
Runners Up (in descending order): Sexy Beast, Ali, Series 7: The Contenders, The Others, Last Resort and Waking Life. I don't remember loving Ali that much... and more than The Others? I don't remember that at all. I mean Nicole Kidman was the shit Twice Over in 2001.
In my round up of the
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Big Surprise: Top Grossing Movies of the Decade Are Basically All Franchise Films
17 November 2009 3:14 PM, PST
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Here's another list for you to digest as we approach the end of the decade. Jason Kottke [1] recently took a look at the list of highest-grossing films from 2000-2009 courtesy of Wikipedia [2], and makes the observation that only one movie in the top 20 is based on an original screenplay. The rest of the movies are all adaptations of books or sequels to existing franchises.
Now, it's pretty easy to jump on this list and whine and moan about how it means there is nothing original in Hollywood anymore. While I agree that there is a problem with studios valuing brand over concept, don't forget, we are talking about the movies that made the most money here. Of Course familiar characters and titles are going to attract more viewers than strange and unfamiliar ones... doesn't that make sense? A lot of people don't even see movies at the theatre, so they
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Guillermo del Toro Talks ‘Hobbit’ Monsters [Updated]
9 November 2009 11:09 AM, PST
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[Update: Word is that del Toro himself will be playing a creature in the film!]
Guillermo del Toro (director of Hellboy and Blade II) dished to Total Film in a 10-page Q&A about his forthcoming movie adapted from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. For those of you who somehow missed the phenomenon of Peter Jackson’s Lord of The Rings Trilogy, The Hobbit is a prequel to The Fellowship of the Ring (aka the first movie in Lotr), also written by Tolkien. There’s been some excitement around the question of what del Toro will do with the monsters in The Hobbit and he had this to say about the most anticipated beast in the bunch, Smaug, the dragon who sleeps on the vast treasure sought after by the film’s lead, Bilbo Baggins:
“I think one of the designs I’m the proudest of is Smaug. Obviously he took the longest. Early in production I came up with a very strong idea that
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Ask the Flying Monkey! (November 2, 2009)
2 November 2009 5:00 AM, PST
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Have a question about gay male entertainment? Send it to aftereltonflyingmonkey@yahoo.com! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)
Q: What do you Really think about the
circumstances surrounding Stephen Gately’s death? Do you think ill of him and
his partner for being a negative representative of the gay community and its
fight for marriage (in many people's eyes, threesomes aren’t "normal"
when you’re married)? -- Curious from My
House, USA
Stephen Gately
A: Now that’s an interesting
question!
Are there times when I’m embarrassed by what other gay folks do? Well, I
know that the actions of other people have no real bearing whatsoever on me – especially
when you’re talking about someone who is as only tangentially related to me as merely
being another member of my same minority.
Still, I also know that that’s not how a lot of people see it.
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John Rhys-Davies Has "Ruled Out" Playing a Dwarf in The Hobbit
1 November 2009 3:39 AM, PST
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With all of the legal troubles MGM has been going through, it was beginning to look like The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy, would never get made. However, in early October, MGM announced that it had secured funds from "key lenders" to move forward with the production and that filming would begin in Spring 2010.
Sir Ian McKellen has confirmed that the production is on track and that he will be returning as Gandalf, but said that "there won't be many of the actors going back." Now, at least one of those actors in question has said that he isn't interested in returning to Middle Earth. John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli the dwarf, told Empire that he was asked about the possibility of playing Gimli's father, Gloin, but that he has "completely ruled it out."
There's a sentimental part of me that would love to be involved again.
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Michael Jackson's This Is It takes on Lord of the Rings
12 October 2009 1:07 PM, PDT
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The power of Michael Jackson lives on - and it's proving enough to conquer the mystical might of the Lord of the Rings.
The late singer's upcoming concert movie Michael Jackson's This Is It has overtaken Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - the first film in Peter Jackson's trilogy - in a league table of films with the highest advance ticket sales of all time.
MovieTickets.com said This Is It had knocked The Fellowship of the Ring of the 25th place in the chart.
The Jacko film documents the star's preparations for his planned 50-date concert series and will be released on October 28. Sony Pictures edited hundreds of hours of rehearsal footage to create the movie after paying $60million for the film rights.
A Michael Jackson single and album with the same title are also set to be released.
The highest grossing concert film
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