Looks like the film version of The Hobbit is going to happen after all. And it’s going to be a two-parter (because they sell more popcorn like that, see).
New Line and filmmaker Peter Jackson have resolved their differences over Jackson’s profit participation over the $3 billion-grossing “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, paving the way for […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tolkien'
Force of Hobbit
Posted by Ocelopotamus on December 18th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Tags: News · Culture · Film · Books · Ian McKellen · Tolkien · Fantasy
No Backsies
Posted by Ocelopotamus on October 24th, 2007 at 11:26 am
I haven’t weighed in on the whole gay Dumbledore thing, partly because everyone is already talking about it, and I usually view OcPot as a place to post about things that deserve more attention than they seem to be getting.
But Minnesota Malcolm brought it up in the comments to this post last night, and […]
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DVD: Priscilla with “Extra Frills”!
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 10th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
At long last! An “Extra Frills” special edition of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert was released on DVD this week. It includes director commentary from Stephan Elliott, deleted scenes, bloopers, a making-of featurette, trailers, teasers and more. AfterElton.com waxes enthusiastic about it here.
When the film premiered at Cannes, it was such a smash that […]
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The Bravest Little Hobbit of Them All
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 8th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Posting has been kind of sparse on OcPot this week, because the end-of-the-month deadline drama from last week lapped over into the beginning of the month. It has a way of doing that, sometimes. The drama.
So while I have a ton of stuff I’d like to post, it may be be a couple of days […]
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Roundup: Giant Hourglass Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 30th, 2007 at 4:26 am
As part of an international day of protest over the genocide in Darfur, campaigners in London displayed a giant hourglass filled with “blood” to symbolize time running out. The image at right is from a video featuring Hugh Grant tied to the campaign. More than 200,000 have died, with 2 million displaced and 4 […]
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Tolkien’s Children of Hurin: Break a Leg, Professor
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 17th, 2007 at 6:22 am
It appears that Christopher Tolkien has one more book to produce out of his father’s magic hat, although this one will almost certainly be the last. The Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien goes on sale today, three decades after his death:
Tolkien’s son and literary executor Christopher, now in his eighties, constructed “The Children of […]
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