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The Hobbit (film series) - Wikipedia. This article is about the film franchise released between 2. For other films based on The Hobbit, see Middle- earth in film. The Hobbit is a film series consisting of three high fantasyadventure films directed by Peter Jackson.

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They are based on the 1. The Hobbit by J. R. Watch Some Girls Online Hitfix. R. Tolkien, with large portions of the trilogy inspired by the appendices to The Return of the King, which expand on the story told in The Hobbit, as well as new material and characters written especially for the films. Together they act as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

The Hobbit is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R.

The films are subtitled An Unexpected Journey (2. The Desolation of Smaug (2. The Battle of the Five Armies (2. The screenplay was written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, who was originally chosen to direct before his departure from the project. The films take place in the fictional world of Middle- earth sixty years before the beginning of The Lord of the Rings, and follow hobbit. Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is convinced by the wizard.

Gandalf the Grey (Ian Mc. Kellen) to accompany thirteen dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon.

Smaug (voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch). The films also expand upon certain elements from the novel and other source material, such as Gandalf's investigation at Dol Guldur, and the pursuit of Azog and Bolg, who seek vengeance against Thorin and his ancestors. The films feature an ensemble cast that also includes James Nesbitt, Ken Stott, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace and Luke Evans, with several actors reprising their roles from The Lord of the Rings, including Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis. The films also feature Manu Bennett, Sylvester Mc. Coy, Stephen Fry, Mikael Persbrandt, Barry Humphries, and Lawrence Makoare.

Also returning for production, among others, were illustrators John Howe and Alan Lee, art director Dan Hennah, cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, and composer Howard Shore, while props were again crafted by Weta Workshop, with visual effects managed by Weta Digital. The first film in the series premiered at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand on 2. November 2. 01. 2. One hundred thousand people lined the red carpet on Courtenay Place, and the entire event was broadcast live on television in New Zealand and streamed over the Internet. The second film of the series premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on 2 December 2. The third and final film premiered at Leicester Square in London on 1 December 2.

The series was a major financial success, with the films classified as one of the highest- grossing film series of all time, going on to outgross The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. Although critically considered to be inferior to The Lord of the Rings, it was nominated for various awards and won several, though not as many as its predecessor.[6][7][8]Development[edit]First stages of development[edit]Jackson and Walsh originally expressed interest in filming The Hobbit in 1. Watch The Back-Up Plan HDQ. The Lord of the Rings). Frustration arose when Jackson's producer, Harvey Weinstein, discovered that Saul Zaentz had production rights to The Hobbit, but that distribution rights still belonged to United Artists (which had kept those rights, believing that filmmakers would prefer to adapt The Hobbit rather than The Lord of the Rings).[1. The United Artists studio and its parent corporation Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer was for sale in 2. Weinstein's attempts to buy the movie rights from the studio were unsuccessful.

Weinstein asked Jackson to press on with adapting The Lord of the Rings. Ultimately, The Lord of the Rings was produced by New Line Cinema, not the Weinsteins, and their rights to film The Hobbit were set to expire in 2.

In September 2. 00. Metro- Goldwyn- Mayer expressed interest in teaming up with New Line and Jackson to make The Hobbit.[1. In March 2. 00. 5, Jackson launched a lawsuit against New Line, claiming he had lost revenue from merchandising, video and computer games releases associated with The Fellowship of the Ring.[1.

He did not seek a specific settlement, but requested an audit to see whether New Line had withheld money owed him.[1. Although Jackson wanted it settled before he would make the film,[1.

New Line would still let him make The Hobbit.[1. New Line co- founder Robert Shaye was annoyed with the lawsuit and said in January 2. Jackson would never again direct a film for New Line, accusing him of being greedy.[1. MGM boss Harry Sloan halted development, as he wanted Jackson to be involved.[1. By August, after a string of flops, Shaye tried to repair his relationship with the director. He said, "I really respect and admire Peter and would love for him to be creatively involved in some way in The Hobbit."[1.

The following month, New Line was fined $1. On 1. 6 December 2. New Line and MGM announced that Jackson would be executive producer of The Hobbit and its sequel. The two studios would co- finance the film and the latter studio (via 2. Century Fox) would distribute the film outside North America—New Line's first ever such deal with another major studio.[1. Each film's budget was estimated at US$1.

US$9. 4 million budget for each of the films in Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. After completion of the merger of New Line Cinema with Warner Bros.

February 2. 00. 8, the two parts were announced as scheduled for release in December 2. Producer Mark Ordesky, the executive producer of The Lord of the Rings, planned to return to supervise the prequels.[2.

Jackson explained he chose not to direct because it would have been unsatisfying to compete with his previous films.[2. In February 2. 00. Tolkien Estate (through The Tolkien Trust, a British charity) and Harper. Collins Publishers filed a suit against New Line for breach of contract and fraud and demanded $2.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The suit claimed New Line had only paid the Estate an upfront fee of $6. The suit claimed the Estate was entitled to 7. Tolkien films, as established by prior deals.

The suit also sought to block the filming of The Hobbit. The suit was settled in September 2. However the Tolkien Trust's 2. New Line Cinema of £2. US$3. 8 million). This amount was the Trust's estimated share in respect of the gross profit participation due for the films based on "The Lord of the Rings".[2. Christopher Tolkien said: "The trustees regret that legal action was necessary but are glad that this dispute has been settled on satisfactory terms that will allow the Tolkien Trust properly to pursue its charitable objectives.

The trustees acknowledge that New Line may now proceed with its proposed film of The Hobbit."[2. Development with del Toro[edit]Guillermo del Toro was originally set to direct the film, but left because of ongoing delays. Jackson stated that del Toro's "creative DNA" would remain in the scripts and designs. Despite the legal suits, development proceeded and in April 2. Guillermo del Toro was hired to direct the film. Del Toro has said he was a fan of Jackson's trilogy and had discussed directing a film adaptation of Halo with him in 2.

Though that project stalled, they kept in contact.[2. In a 2. 00. 6 interview, del Toro was quoted saying "I don't like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits, [..] I don't like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff".[2.

After he signed on to direct in April 2. Del Toro posted on The. One. Ring. net forums that he had been enchanted by The Hobbit as a child, but found that Tolkien's other books "contain[ed] geography and genealogy too complex for my prepubescent brain". In taking the job of director, del Toro was now "reading like a madman to catch up with a whole new land, a continent of sorts—a cosmology created by brilliant philologist turned Shaman".

Josh Becker: Q & AName:             Nikolay Yeriomin. E- mail:            nikolayyeriomin@gmail. Date. 6/5/1. 6Dear Josh : Loved previous q& a's with Keith and Tim because it is quite an interesting "food for thoughts".

If it is okay, I have a few comments and questions regarding what they were writing, so this message may be a little bit long (I hope that it may be separated if that will be more comfortable for you and/or webmasters). Firstly, regarding Alfred Hitchcock (by the way, my all- time favorite director) - it should be noted that "Hitchock/Truffault", even though it is one of the greatest books on Hitchcock and movie- making in general is quite flawed by one thing in nearly any translation, that thing being the fact that all of the Hitchcock statements were translated in French and then book was again translated in English from that translation, so at times what Hitchcock actually said was somewhat paraphrased and may have affected the sense of a few statements.

Secondly, a little thought on Hitchcock's movies - last summer I've discovered that I've actually haven't seen that much of his directorial works, mainly because in cases of one of the favorite directors dying or working rarely I usually postpone some movies in advance, just to have a few if I'll have some specific mood. In case of Hitchcock, though, I understood it was quite pointless, because if counting his TV episodes and some other things he has quite a big filmography. So, I've started a tradition of sorts that I hope to continue this year - to pick five Hitchcock directorial works (from each decade of his career excluding the 7. I've seen everything) mostly at random and watch them on and around his birthday.

What I've picked in 2. The Pleasure Garden", "Jamaica Inn", "Spellbound", "The Trouble with Harry" and an episode of "Startime" named "Incident at a Corner". I can highly recommend each one of them (though "Spellbound" is probably the better one of them), but "Incident at a Corner" is especially recommended because it is mostly overlooked and forgotten, despite this little gem is actually pretty impressive. Thirdly, while I can understand your and Tim's concern of culture being "rotted", I have some optimism for it and I just believe that we're living in a period of quite a big shift and it's hard to judge the society which is in a constant stress and undergoes a process of certain social and cultural mutations.

I'm quite concerned about culture as well because, well - mainstream culture seems less and less appealing to me. Especially since younger people (of which I am, to some unfortunate extent) seem less and less tolerant to more individual and "unconventional" tastes and will try to force you to watch what they like, massively overreacting if you dislike their choice, forgetting that anyone has right to choose what he or she wants to watch.

I'm quite tired of people shaming me for my dislike of "Game of Thrones" and "The Walking Dead" - while both series are very popular and acclaimed I just can't find anything of strong interest in both of them (not to mention that people fail to notice how much "Game of Thrones" is derivative to works of William Shakespeare) so I don't have a point to watch them. But I hope that such "Age of Overreacting" will eventually pass and we'll have some kind of renaissance. I don't lose that hope because, well, even my dorm roommate (1. I'm of the same age gap and yet I can easily watch anything regardless of time period) loved "Lawrence of Arabia" and is amazed by Buster Keaton stunts (despite him being a parkour practitioner he just can't understand how some of them were executed) and another one of the same age is reading a lot and tries quite thoughtfully to compare and balance mainstream, independent and classic art. One of my best friends who is essentially of my age disliked "The Hateful Eight", by the way and while I was okay with that movie I can totally see why and approve both his and yours concerns about it.

Fourthly as you've asked for someone to pick ten greatest movies and albums of the past ten years (that should be the period of 2. I guess?) I might as well try to name at least movies. But I should warn you that I'm casually watching some movies two or three years after the initial release, so I'm quite surely missed at least a few great titles.

I'm also subjective, of course and will try to balance those movies which both I've found great and at least some significant amount of people enjoyed a lot as well, trying hard to limit it for one- two movies per year. My picks are (in chronological order): 1."Shaun of the Dead" (2. Dir. Edgar Wright (UK); 2."Takeshis'" (2. Dir. Takeshi Kitano (Japan); 3."A Scanner Darkly" (2. Dir. Richard Linklater (USA); 4."Reign Over Me" (2.

Dir. Mike Binder (USA); 5."Serce na dloni" (2. US as "And a Warm Heart" though the translation is "Heart in the Hand") Dir. Krzysztof Zanussi (Poland); 6."Drive" (2. Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn (USA); 7."Fire. Crosser" (Toy. Khto. Proyshov. Kriz. Vohon) (2. Dir. Mykhailo Illienko (Ukraine); 8."L'écume des jours" (2.

US as "Mood Indigo", though the translation is "The Foam of Days") Dir. Michel Gondry (France); 9."The Guest" (2. Dir. Adam Wingard (USA); 1. Mad Max: Fury Road" (2. Dir. George Miller, (Australia and USA). The problem is - great rarely equals life- changing personal favorites - if you'd asked to put a list of ten personal favorites a fewer of those will move from one list to another.

Yours sincerely,Nikolay Yeriomin.