The Return of the King, the last installment of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, opens next week.
"For executives at New Line, the making of The Lord of the Rings trilogy began as an exercise in faith, " Masters says.
Epic in its own way, The Hobbit starts as light as a feather and never manages the level of impending doom that the Lord of the Rings trilogy reached.
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At some point in the next decade or two, when 100-gigabyte blue-ray DVDs will barely contain the high-def Lord of the Rings trilogy, we'll be reaching the limits of 2-D.
Sir Ian McKellen returns as Gandalf the Grey, the character he played in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, with Elijah Wood as Frodo and Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield.
Oscar-winning sound editor Michael Hopkins, who worked on films including the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the 2005 King Kong remake, has been killed in a rafting accident in New Zealand.
As with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit opens with a scene not present in the original story: re-meeting older Bilbo (Ian Holm) and a heartbreakingly innocent Frodo (Elijah Wood).
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Mr Jackson, who also directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy, will set up an interactive arm of his firm, Wingnut, and will work with Halo creators Bungie Studios to develop the series.
Her CV reveals an eclectic list of roles, ranging from the flaky housewife in comedy Bandits, to elf queen Galadriel in the epic Lord of the Rings trilogy, to hard-hitting Irish journalist in Veronica Guerin.
Peter Jackson has delivered a remarkable film, one that at once matches the quality and integrity of his The Lord of the Rings trilogy while setting a new standard on its own terms as a unique, different story.
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The couple's vision for the place grew, and today they own a small but impeccable luxury resort, set amid scenery so captivating that director Peter Jackson shot most of his Lord of the Rings trilogy within a 20-mile radius.
"We're working with people like Dark Knight's stunt co-ordinator and Titanic's sound designer, Star Wars' casting director and a lot of the guys who worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit as well, " said Mr McNicoll.
Developed by the company Traveler's Tales, the latest in the LEGO series, "LEGO The Lord of the Rings, " puts Frodo, Gandalf, Aragorn and the rest of the characters from "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy into block toy form as they trace storylines from the popular books and movies.
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After all, successfully mixing pyrotechnics and narrative is how the most satisfying genre features of recent years -- such as Peter Jackson's "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy and Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" -- have found artistic, as well as commercial, favor.
Mr. Wolf designed fighting styles for battle scenes in Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
"It is a wonderful acknowledgment of what has been a six-year journey to make and release this first film in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, " director Peter Jackson said.
Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy -- has so far stopped at Miami, the Galapagos Islands and Cancun, in Mexico -- the latter during the United Nations World Climate Conference.
He was the scout and manager for all three Lord of the Rings films and for The Hobbit trilogy. (Scouting for The Hobbit alone, he said, took the better part of four years).
The Hobbit, which was the shortest of the Lord of the Rings books, is being turned into a trilogy.
Lord of the Rings is currently packing them in and last week Philip Pullman author of a trilogy of children's books was awarded one of the world's top literary prizes the Whitbread Book of the Year, the first time that a book aimed at children has carried off this particular award, The Amber Spy Glass, part three of the trilogy.
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Based on the novel by JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit is set 60 years before the Lord Of The Rings, which Jackson also made into a trilogy of films.
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