The Lord of the Rings Articles

Guillermo del Toro is out. Who will be directing The Hobbit when — or perhaps if — it goes into production, remains a mystery. Names mentioned as possibilities include Alfonso Cuarón, Sam Mendes, Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton, and, of course, Peter Jackson. But that's all speculation and wishful thinking — until an official announcement is made. “We have been caught in a very tangled negotiation,” [...]

Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington in James Cameron's Avatar Actors with faces but without voices can't be nominated for Oscars. Actors with voices but without faces can, but don't get nominated for Oscars. Ingrid Thulin couldn't have been nominated for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because she was dubbed by Angela Lansbury. The same goes for the widely praised Philippe Noiret, dubbed into Italian in [...]

Peter Jackson, Saoirse Ronan – The Lovely Bones (Matt Mueller / DreamWorks/Paramount) New Zealand-born Peter Jackson has become Sir Peter Jackson in his native country. Jackson is now a knight as a result of his "services to film." Among the films he's provided services for are the horror-comedy Braindead (1992); Heavenly Creatures (1994), Kate Winslet's feature-film debut; the 2005 King Kong remake, starring Naomi Watts; [...]

Beginning tomorrow, December 1, the Lord of the Rings-inspired Born of Hope will make its exclusive debut on Dailymotion. Directed by Kate Madison, and written by Alex K. Aldridge with the assistance of Christopher Dane, who also stars as Arathorn, Born of Hope is an original prequel based on the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy and, as per the film's press release, featuring "a host of characters [...]