Video - HOBBIT ACTORS ARRIVE IN NEW ZEALAND ON HOBBIT PLANE (STUFF.CO.NZ)

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Five months after wrapping up filming, the cast of The Hobbit have reunited in Wellington to celebrate tomorrow's movie premiere.

Four of the 13 dwarfs and wizard Radagast, played by British actor Sylvester McCoy, made their way to the capital in Air NZ's new Hobbit styled Boing 777-300 and were met by the rest of the cast lead by director Peter Jackson.

The plane had made his maiden flight on Saturday in Auckland and has since been to Los Angeles and London.

Tourists arriving at the airport for the premiere excitedly flocked to the windows underneath the massive Middle of Middle Earth sign to catch a glimpse of Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage and the rest of the Company of Dwarves.

"This plane with its 77-metre flying billboard came from Los Angeles and down from Auckland this morning,"  Air New Zealand deputy chief executive Norm Thompson said. "It's the first time this plane has arrived in Wellington, which is really fitting for the occation".

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From a hole in the ground, comes a new TV spot for 'The Hobbit' By Anthony Pearson Oct 23, 2012, 22:54 GMT (M & C)

The first part in "The Hobbit" trilogy hits screens in under 2 months and features an epic sized cast that includes; Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Evangeline Lilly, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Aidan Turner, John Bell, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Barry Humphries, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Sylvester McCoy, Bret McKenzie, Graham McTavish, Mike Mizrahi, James Nesbitt, Dean O'Gorman, Lee Pace, Billy Connolly, Mikael Persbrandt, Conan Stevens, Ken Stott and Jeffrey Thomas.




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THE HOBBIT Trailer #2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruVlBv2s7yw

This looks absolutely wonderful - I love the trailer, Martin Freeman is great and Richard Armitage is epic!


Release Date: 14 December 2012
Genre: Adventure | Fantasy
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Ian McKellen, Luke Evans, Elijah Wood, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Richard Armitage, Ian Holm
Directors: Peter Jackson
Writer: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh
Studio: Warner Bros.

Michael Fassbender reveals the creepy secrets of his Prometheus character. (MORNING SPOILERS)

Prometheus

Michael Fassbender gives the latest take on just how Prometheus connects back to Alien in ways a mere prequel couldn't possibly hope to:

What I will say is that the first Alien film had an intelligent, slow-burning, sinister element to it — there's this feeling in this. Before I read the script, I thought the concept had already been exhausted. I'd seen so many of them — AVP: Alien Vs Predator, Alien here, Alien there. But I can tell you there's no Predator. I came dressed one day as the Predator and was like, "What do you think?" I tried to get him in [laughs]. But it's amazing. It's really about strong characters again. And I love the fact that Noomi [Rapace] is a strong leading female, like Sigourney Weaver was.

He also explains what he found so fascinating about his character, the android David:

What I thought was interesting was him being programmed to react in a certain way. And part of that is him blending in with humans, so does an ego develop to facilitate that? He's there to serve them, but he's sort of disliked because they think he might be superior to him. Or just different. Because humans have that thing where they're like, "Something's different? Persecute!"

Finally, he compares his character to Ian Holm's android in Alien:

He's less developed than Ian Holm [laughs]. That's the way I'm going to describe him from now on. Ridley said, "He's like the butler," but there's a vanity to him. And he always has the answers so there's a swagger to him, too. In fact, I think he might be kind of creepy. I do creepy well.


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Maggie Smith: Oh! What a Lovely War Musical comedy

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144 minutes Directed by Richard Attenborough

Starring Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, John Clements, Ian Holm, Meriel Forbes, Wensley Pithey, Ruth Kettlewell, Paul Daneman, Corin Redgrave, Pamela Abbott, Maggie Smith, Michael Redgrave, Juliet Mills, Susannah York, Dirk Bogarde, Cecil Walker, Thorley Walters, Guy Middleton, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Flemyng, Mary Wimbush, Colin Farrell, Maurice Roëves, Paul Shelley, Malcolm McFee.

World War I is given the musical treatment, told in a series of a song-and-dance vignettes. Throughout we follow the Smith family, stand-ins for the British working class, who initially view the war with sunny optimism. But, after the Smith boys Jack[C26], Freddy[C27], Harry[C24]and George[C25]witness the reality of trench warfare, their illusions are inevitably shattered, and the best they can hope for is survival.

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH EXCITED TO START WORK ON THE HOBBIT PREQUELS

BBC's Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch who has starred in films including Atonement, The Other Boleyn Girl, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the upcoming War Horse has expressed his excitement to work on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit prequels.

The War Horse actor has signed on to voice and provide the motion-capture performance for dragon Smaug in The Lord of the Rings prequels and tells Collider "I'm playing Smaug, I mean I'm physicalising him as a dragon I'm not just doing the voiceover, so it'll be a physical role which I'm no stranger to.

I did Frankenstein at the beginning of the year with Danny Boyle at the National Theatre and playing the creature in that was a very full-on and sort of corporeal experience."

Cumberbatch says that he'll begin work as Smaug in early 2012 and adds "I can't wait, but the conversations have yet to start really in earnest because they've been doing the first film and I've been doing the second series of Sherlock and another series which I'm working on now called Parade's End for HBO and BBC with Tom Stoppard, and Rebecca Hall co-starring.

I've already started working out and doing various movement exercises to get myself limber for that all-important jump suit with balls on it, otherwise known as motion-capture. But I can't wait, I'm really excited. I go to film it in January."

The Hobbit sees the return of Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis who reprise their roles from The Lord of the Rings trilogy and they are joined by newcomers Stephen Fry, Sylvester McCoy, Bret McKenzie, James Nesbitt, Lee Pace, Aidan Turner and Luke Evans and his Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins.

The fan carpet

Benedict Cumberbatch Photos
WAR HORSE IS OUT ON JANUARY 13