Writing in the message boards at TheOneRing.net, Compa Mighty provides a link to a Missy Schwarz piece on EW, “‘The Hobbit’ production could begin by mid-2010 and casting is moving forward.” There she reassures fans that the delay in production is...

Peter Jackson is currently in Germany doing publicity for The Lovely Bones. The German site Moviereporter is quoting him as saying this about the Hobbit filming (and I quote from the translation helpfully provided by TheOneRing.net): “We’re...

It has been nearly six years since the release of The Return of the King, but its international distributors still look back on the three years of the trilogy’s distribution as one of their most lucrative periods ever. As I explained in Chapter 9 of...

I have to admit that I’ve never sat through the last part of the credits on the LOTR extended-edition DVDs. That’s the section where all the charter members of the official fan club had their names listed–including such notables as Elijah Wood. It...

MGM has begun the process of sending out non-disclosure agreements to companies interested in bidding on its assets. The studio is setting up a secure online site where bidders can access its internal financial data. Assets up for sale, apparently as...