'The Hobbit' Worldwide Fan Event kicks off in NYC with Orlando Bloom, Richard Armitage and Anderson Cooper

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BY ETHAN SACKS / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013, 4:59 PM
UPDATED: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2013, 6:39 PM

A little piece of Middle Earth came to the Upper West Side of Manhattan Monday.

More than a month ahead of the Dec. 13 release of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” director Peter Jackson and castmembers held a simultaneous fan celebration in satellite-linked movie theaters in the Big Apple, Los Angeles, London, and Wellington, N.Z. - as well as several other theaters around the world.

Orlando Bloom, a.k.a. the elf warrior Legolas, and Richard Armitage, better known to Tolkein fans as the dwarf leader Thorin Oakenshield, were on hand at the AMC Lincoln Square 13 theater.

CNN’s answer to Gandalf, anchor Anderson Cooper, was also on hand in New York to act as a global host.

Anderson Cooper hosted the event.

“We’ve got a packed theater in NYC, we have hobbit fans, elf fans and dwarf fans,” Anderson told the cheering crowd.

“There is one orc in the crowd but we’ve given him a lot of buttery popcorn so he won’t be a threat.”

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FIRST LOOK: ORLANDO BLOOM & LUKE EVANS IN THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN (THE DAILY BLAM)

BY PIETRO FILIPPONI
PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 6, 2012 - 10:30AM
in Film Movie News Lord of the Rings The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Warner Bros Fantasy

The first film of director Peter Jackson's upcoming fantasy trilogy stars Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Ian McKellen as Gandalf, and Andy Serkis as Gollum and is scheduled for theatrical release December 14, 2012.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on December 14, 2012. The second film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, will be released on December 13, 2013, and the third film, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, will be released worldwide on July 18, 2014.


Although no official publicity materials for the second film have been released, Entertainment Weekly has debuted the first promo still from the third film which features the return of Orlando Bloom to the role of Legolas and introduces Luke Evans (The Three Musketeers, Immortals) as Bard the Bowman:

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