With The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies receiving 4K remastered box sets this month, one of the actors from the franchise has opened up about the development on the prequel trilogy. In an interview on Kiwi Talkz, Jed Brophy, who played the Dwarf Nori in The Hobbit trilogy as well as portraying the Nazgul and a variety of […]
Peter Jackson explains why The Lord of the Rings needed a 4K remaster
Peter Jackson, the director of The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies, has explained why they needed a 4K remaster. There have been numerous home video releases of The Lord of the Rings trilogy over the years, including the much-loved extended editions, and now the films – and The Hobbit trilogy – have been […]
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies getting 4K release this December
Middle-earth is about to be seen in a whole new way. Peter Jackson’s groundbreaking The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit trilogy will be released on 4K Ultra HD for the first time ever this December. Sean Astin, who played hobbit Samwise Gamgee in Lord of the Rings, made the announcement and said Jackson has been personally remastering […]
The Top 15 Film Scores of the 2010s
Hasitha Fernando on the top film scores of the 2010s… To say a film’s score is an integral aspect of it is a gross understatement. The right score can do a lot of things. It can elevate a film from the realm of mediocrity to the extraordinary, breathe life into characters, augment the emotional impact […]
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series welcomes us to the Second Age
Fans of Tolkien’s treasured creation of Middle-earth are cautiously listening to new details emerging about Amazon Prime’s series in development. With Peter Jackson keen to lend his creativity and Viggo Mortensen offering supportive words, the latest detail to surface is the timeline the series will follow. The official Twitter page, @LOTRonPrime released a teasing tweet […]
The Hobbit’s Bilbo Baggins gets a new collectible figure from Asmus Toys
Sideshow and Asmus Toys have revealed the sixth scale Bilbo Baggins figure which is based on the likeness of Martin Freeman in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. The collectible is available to pre-order now, priced at $170.00; check it out here… SUPPORT FLICKERING MYTH: Order via Sideshow Collectibles Sideshow and Asmus Toys are proud to present the […]
Evangeline Lilly retired from acting until The Hobbit encouraged her back
Evangeline Lilly has revealed that she quit acting soon after Lost until a role in The Hobbit franchise encouraged her to return. Ant-Man and the Wasp star Evangeline Lilly burst onto the scene with her starring performance on the hit TV show Lost (2004), but, soon after, the actress stepped away from acting. Speaking to […]
The Hobbit trilogy actor on the film’s issues, and feeling like a glorified extra
The Lord of the Rings trilogy is widely considered one of the best trilogies ever made. It’s sense of scale was something completely new to the fantasy genre on film at the time. Peter Jackson took Tolkien’s masterworks, and brought the viewer down to the character’s level, where we could feel the urgency in Fellowship, […]
Ian McKellen suggests he’s open to Gandalf role in Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series
As Sir Ian McKellen prepares to tackle a new iconic role in the West End version of The Exorcist, the legendary performer has told Graham Norton’s Radio 2 show that he’s reluctant to let one of his greatest roles go to another actor. With the news that Amazon are to create their own middle-earth TV series […]
A huge Lord of the Rings lawsuit has been settled
A substantial lawsuit between Warner Bros. and the Tolkien estate has been settled over The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The dispute between the two parties started back in 2012 when the Tolkien estate alleged that the studio did not have the rights to licence the books’ characters for online slot machines and […]