Source: Entertainment Weekly | Posted By: Dan Geer
Today, Entertainment Weekly published some awesome new photos from the set of The Hobbit, revealing for the first time what actor Martin Freeman looks like as young Bilbo. Also in the trio of photos is a look at Ian McKellen reprising the role of Gandalf the Grey from The Lord of the Rings, and director Peter Jackson on set with Freeman. Hit the jump to check ’em out!
Source: The Dark Knight Rises Official Website | FirstShowing.net | Posted By: Dan Geer
Today, the official website for Christopher Nolan’s highly-anticipated film, The Dark Knight Rises finally launched, delivering quite an odd viral campaign for the film. If you go to the website, it takes you to a black page with an audio clip of strange chanting playing in the background. If you’re much, much smarter than I am, you’ll figure out that the audio file can lead you to a Twitter feed called @TheFireRises that sends out replies to users putting the hashtag #TheFireRises in a status update, which in turn takes user avatars to compose a mosaic that will eventually reveal an image of Tom Hardy as Bane. Whew!
While the Twitter feed is still sending out replies as of right now, thankfully someone got their timing screwed up and already posted the photo on The Dark Knight Rises Facebook page. Hit the jump to check it out!
Source: HBO | Posted By: Dan Geer
Film producer Jerry Weintraub, known for producing such hit films as the Ocean’s Eleven and Karate Kid series, is stepping out from behind the scenes and into the spotlight in what is sure to be a fascinating new documentary called His Way.
Premiering exclusively on HBO on April 4th at 9 PM ET/PT, His Way utilizes personal video, archival footage and one-on-one interviews to chronicle Weintraub‘s five-decade career as a Hollywood entrepreneur. You can check out the official press release, key art, stills and trailer for the documentary after the jump!
Source: Peter Jackson Facebook | Posted By: Dan Geer
In case you still have any doubts about the fact that The Hobbit movies are currently being filmed and that Peter Jackson is indeed back to direct them, some recent photos of Jackson on the set of Bilbo’s “Bag End” hobbit hole have emerged on his Facebook page. Hit the jump to check ’em out!
Source: ABC Family | HPANA | Harry Potter Facebook | Posted By: Dan Geer
Once again, ABC Family is airing Harry Potter movies – this time during their Harry Potter Weekend Event, which started yesterday.
Throughout the course of the event, ABC Family will be airing behind-the-scenes featurettes for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. The first featurette already aired during Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone last night, but in case you missed it, you can watch it after the jump!
Source: Entertainment Weekly | Posted By: Dan Geer
If the half-second glimpse of Hugo Weaving as Red Skull in the Super Bowl spot for Captain America: The First Avenger wasn’t enough to wet your appetite for the new movie out this July, hit the jump to check out a new photo of him from Entertainment Weekly!
Source: FEARnet | Posted By: Dan Geer
Award-winning filmmaker Mick Garris, host of FEARnet‘s signature series Post-Mortem with Mick Garris, has conducted many interviews with horror film legends on the show, including Roger Corman (which we featured here), Robert Englund and Frank Darabont.
More recently, Garris sat down with Halloween creator John Carpenter to discuss his career. While this five-part interview does not debut on FEARnet until Monday, February 28th (and also Verizon FiOS cable channel 197 starting March 4th and On Demand March 7th), FEARnet was kind enough to send us the official press release as well as photos and an exclusive preview clip of the interview. Hit the jump to check them out!
Source: One Cool Thing a Day | Official Star Wars Blog | Posted By: Dan Geer
Image from One Cool Thing a Day
Since the “Blizzard of 2011” seems to be the hot topic in today’s news, it seemed fitting to post artist Colin McGreal‘s great Star Wars-themed photos of a blizzard, apparently from some time last year, depicting various “Hoth” scenes set in real world New York City. These are really cool. Check ’em out below!
Source: HBO | Posted By: Dan Geer
Carrie Fisher‘s stage production, Wishful Drinking (which inspired her bestselling book of the same name), is being turned into a feature-length documentary that is set to debut on HBO Sunday, December 12th! Hit the jump for the official press release, trailer, video clips and hi-res photos!
Source: MuggleNet.com | Posted By: Dan Geer
During my recent visit to Orlando, Florida, I went to the Universal Studios theme park as well as its sister park, Islands of Adventure – which includes The Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction.
Word on the street is that this attraction (which is incredible, by the way) will be getting the expansion treatment by 2012 or 2013. But what does that mean for other attractions surrounding it? Hit the jump to find out.
