Guillermo de Toro talks about working in Wellington on the Hobbit project.

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“Lord of the Rings” fans are flocking to New Zealand, where the trilogy was filmed to see first hand where the successful film trilogy was made according to CNN.

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Speculation has risen online that there is a planned third movie in the Hobbit series adding to the two movies already in the works from Peter Jackson. As we had reported earlier, Jackson and Del Toro are well under way with a remake of the original Hobbit book and another creation that spans between “The [...]

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“Lovely Bones”, the story of a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven has been tipped for a nomination this year in the Academy Awards:
Among the Oscar contenders for best picture, for example, are Peter Jackson’s “The Lovely Bones,” Clint Eastwood’s untitled project, Martin [...]

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Lord of the Rings’ actor Craig Parker stars in a new series called Diplomatic Immunity on Television New Zealand.
Parker was born in Suva, Fiji. He is most famous for his role as Haldir of Lórien in The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy. He also does voice-overs for New Zealand documentaries and has been entertaining [...]

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Kiwi Software firm Massive Software is getting into the virtual robot business. The key to Massive’s success is their 3D animation rendering software used in Lord of the Rings, Golden Compass and the Pirates of the Caribbean among many others.

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Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have announced that Guillermo del Toro will be the Director of the next two Hobbit films.
“A true original, Guillermo is a cinematic magician who has never lost his child-like sense of wonder. He understands that the fantastic must be grounded in the real and that all stories are only [...]

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