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When Guillermo del Toro was officially announced as the director of "The Hobbit" and a second, transitional film last week, it became The Day Middle-earth Stood Still for every J.R.R. Tolkien fan. How would the visionary director of "Pan's Labyrinth" and "Hellboy" approach hobbits and dwarves, riddles and Rivendell, the Battle of Five Armies and the great dragon Smaug? And perhaps most ... [link]

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Early buzz: Death Cab, Coachella, 'Top Chef,' new discs, more
Published 4/29/2008 by Whitney Matheson at USATODAY.com - Pop Candy
... website. - Coldplay will also play a free show at New York's Madison Square Garden to promote its new album. - Amy Poehler is pregnant . - Daytrotter has posted a session with Death Cab for Cutie . - What's-her-name is coming back to How I Met Your Mother . - Largehearted Boy is posting an awesome archive of downloads and streams from Coachella as they pop up online. - Midnight Oil is remastering its early material. - MTV interviews Guillermo del Toro about his new gig as Hobbit director. - Top Chef is ...

Life Imitated Art for Robert Downey Jr. on ‘Less Than Zero’
Published 4/29/2008 at Vulture
... telephone pole." —Jon Favreau [SuperHero Hype] "Two weeks ago Alexandria was listening to Hilary Duff songs. David just leaves the room. He thinks she should be listening to underground music." —Iman on what David Bowie thinks of their 7-year-old's musical taste [Sun UK] "Don't expect me to do The Neverending Story." —Guillermo del Toro on The Hobbit [MTV] ...

Newsbites: Gilly! Hobbit! Mel! Cinerama! City! Racism! Expelled! Charlie! Superman! Rwanda! etc.!
Published 4/30/2008 by Peter T Chattaway at FilmChat
... director Guillermo Del Toro has given another interview, this time to MTV News, in which, among other very interesting things, he nicely dismisses ...

'Hobbit' director Guillermo del Toro speaks
Published 4/30/2008 by Tempo at The Watcher
... , of course (I first saw this link on Digg). He’s also been posting on The One Ring’s message boards for the past week or so, under the handle “Guillermo.” ...

Hobbit Casting Talk
Published 5/1/2008 by Jamie Williams at Screen Rant
... We prefer to let the screenplay and the way the character comes to life guide us in the casting. I have many people in mind. Anything [else] I say will be used against me in a court of law." Maybe I'm being a horse's ass... (I know - a real shock, ladies and gentlemen) but that sounds like del Toro's cute little P.C. way of saying, "Holm's not involved.” Hmmm, this film-nerd smells some re-casting in the air. Sources: Empire and MTV TrackBack (0) | Comments (2) ...

James McAvoy Continues Shooting Down ‘Hobbit’ Rumors But Tells Us Who Should Play Bilbo
Published 6/16/2008 by Shawn Adler at MTV Movies Blog
... In an interview with MTV News in April, Del Toro told us that Holm would “be involved in some manner,” but stopped short of saying he was number one on the wish list. ...

‘Hobbit’ Director Guillermo Del Toro Answers Your Questions - Submit Now!
Published 6/20/2008 by Larry Carroll at MTV Movies Blog
... Now it’s time to return the favor. Next week I’ll be speaking with newly minted “Hobbit” director Guillermo Del Toro, and I want you to give me some good questions that I can bring with me. No fair repeating a question he answered in our last chat or in his recent Q&A – we want news. So fire away, Tolkien fans. If you leave a name, I’ll tell him it came from you, and we’ll post video of his response online. ...

No Battles Of Gondor In Second ‘Hobbit’ Movie?
Published 8/27/2008 by Jennifer Vineyard at MTV Movies Blog
... The Denethor character — Faramir and Boromir’s father — doesn’t appear in the book version of “The Hobbit”, but del Toro plans to make a second, connective film that would take place between “The Hobbit” and “Fellowship of the Ring.” And if the character of Arargorn returns for that — ...

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