Another acting legend has passed on. Sir Christopher Lee, known recently for his roles in Lord of the Rings and Star Wars, passed away on Sunday at the age of 93. He had gone into the hospital for some respiratory problems. Lee had a long career that included playing Dracula, Frankenstein, Count Dooku in Star Wars, Saruman in Lord …
Saturday Night Live may have out done themselves on the nerdy quotient this weekend. Martin Freeman hosted SNL Saturday to promote the final chapter of The Hobbit, and in the spirit of the season, Freeman portrayed Bilbo Baggins in a mashup with the BBC version of The Office. Freeman initially portrayed Tim on the Ricky …
Like a twisted and reversed Chekov’s Gun, everything that appears in the popular original trilogy has to appear in the prequels: it is lazy foreshadowing to reward the fans of the series for being able to spot the glaringly obvious references.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Written by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro Directed by Peter Jackson New Zealand, United Kingdom, and USA, 2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is, no doubt, an improvement over The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, though perhaps because it is the second of three …
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Written by: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo Del Toro Directed by: Peter Jackson New Zealand, UK, US, 2012 There is an argument to be made that Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is the best series of films of the naught decade, if not of …
“We live in a three-dimensional world,” James Cameron admonished Hollywood a few weeks ago on the opening of Life of Pi. Calling Ang Lee’s film some of the best use of 3-D since his own Avatar (2009), Cameron was trying to push the movie industry – as he has been for some time – toward …
25: The Dark Knight Rises Directed by Christopher Nolan Screenplay by Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan 2012, USA The Dark Knight Rises feels as if it was made up of two equal halves, with the most critical moment of the film breaking the movie in half, almost literally. While the second half may have …
2012 wasn’t a bad year for movies. It was actually a great year. The problem is, the movies we were most anticipating, specifically the Hollywood blockbusters like Prometheus and The Hobbit, didn’t live up to our expectations. With that said I still managed to make a list of 50 films I loved. Maybe I just …
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Directed by Peter Jackson Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, and Guillermo Del Toro New Zealand and USA, 2012 Who can blame Peter Jackson for not wanting to leave Middle-Earth? His adaptation of The Lord of the Rings book series, written by J.R.R. Tolkien, was an enormously successful …
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Composed by Howard Shore WaterTower Music December 11, 2012 In 2001, Peter Jackson and his intrepid cast and crew transported audiences around the world to a land that, up until that point, only existed in novels and decades old animated films. That land was Middle Earth, and now, nearly ten …
I remember when I was younger, I used to head to the video store and rent movies I’d never heard of based solely on the movie poster art. In doing so, I discovered many hidden gems, such as Peter Jackson’s Dead Alive and Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead. Movie poster artists are without a doubt some …
This holiday season Peter Jackson is venturing back to Middle Earth with The Hobbit, and also along for the journey is Howard Shore, who established the world’s musical parameters. Today The Film Stage posted a preview of one of the score’s complete tracks entitled “Radagast the Brown”. This is a perfect track for Warner Brothers to release. …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …
As a rule, I don’t revisit a subject (well, not often), but a recent USA Today story by Brian Truitt spurred me to go back to a piece I wrote last month (http://www.popoptiq.com/when-great-leaps-forward-arent-or-the-art-of-looking-bad/) triggered by a Washington Post story about Peter Jackson’s screening of 10 minutes of his upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey at …
I recently came across Washington Post critic Ann Hornaday writing about a screening several weeks ago at CinemaCon of 10 minutes from Peter Jackson’s (and Warner Bros.’) attempt to extend the Lord of the Rings franchise with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The film is currently slated for release in December of this year. Some …
Want a prediction for 2012 at the movies? It’s going to look a lot like 2011. An awful lot. It’s going to be a case of, If ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Well, actually, the creative machinery in Hollywood is broke, but, as the numbers show, not broken enough to warrant fixing. So. Next year, …
Peter Jackson‘s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s The Hobbit isn’t due out for a year and a half, and already we’ve been swamped with a ton of photos of some of the character dwarves. I wouldn’t mind so much if studios released all the character photos in one shot but this is becoming tiresome. Should …
Production on the adaptation of J.R.R Tolkien’s prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy The Hobbit is now well under way in New Zealand since March of this year after numerous delays and shake-ups which shifted the previous projected release dates for the production which you may recall, has been split into two …
The first Hobbit movie is set to be released in December 2012, which is a long way to go. In the meantime, director Director Peter Jackson is giving us all a taste of what we can expect with a series of video blogs. The first entry of the video blog has been released with Jackson …
Yesterday we reported that Elijah Wood was shortlisted to return for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit despite the fact that his character Frodo doesn’t appear in the book which takes place years before the characters birth. Now the official Lord of the Rings fan-site claims that Wood is set to reprise his role, appearing in the …
In not so shocking news, MGM and Warner Bros. have announced that Peter Jackson’s two films covering the J.R.R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit will get worldwide distribution by Warner Bros. and not MGM. MGM has been cash-strapped, to say the least, so they’ve worked out a deal with WB to use their resources to handle …
According to Deadline, Cate Blanchett is reprising her role as Galadriel in at least one of the two Hobbit films. It has been reported that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens and even Guillermo del Toro (before quitting the director’s chair) would be making necessary changes to the story in order to include a couple …
