And mostly made of squee (or ooooooooooh).

Benedict Cumberbatch is motion-capture Smaug - also the voice of 'the Necromancer'. Oh, and they've cast Bard, but he's someone I haven't heard of. So in two or three years time I will look back and go OMG how did I make this post without even mentioning Luke Evans' name?

Possible Dark Knight spoilers, ( Read more... )

A whole bunch of little things.

More on Benedict Cumberbatch in the Hobbit - Ian McKellan confirms it, but is all tease-y about what part he's playing. I've seen people posit both Bard and Smaug-in-mo-cap - I still think either is a bit of a waste of a clearly Elvish face, but who knows ( Read more... )

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Jonathan Coulton is playing in London on Saturday the 11th of June. I AM GOING. WHO IS WITH ME?
Tickets are £20 each, and likely to sell out soonish. I might go ahead and buy a couple on the basis that I'm sure I can find someone to give them to ( Read more... )

Peter Jackson has posted the first behind the scenes Hobbit video.It's a whole ten minutes long and filled with INCREDIBLE AWESOME AMAZING SQUEE OMFG I CAN'T EVEN. I was going to make a big list of the things in it (punchline: ... and Aidan Turner's Beard!) but I can't. I got to the Maori welcoming ceremony and just gave up. Too much awesome. I can ( Read more... )

In a minute I'm going to do some work. But first, two geeky film links:

Hobbit cast press conference video - the link title is because PJ is still at home recovering from the curse ulcer he had ( Read more... )

HEEEE. Omg. The first Dinosaur Cove has been chosen to be one of the new Richard and Judy Children's Book Club titles ( Read more... )

Martin Freeman as Bilbo (hooray, I approve) and several dwarf castings. Including, well. Characters from the hobbit I would not expect to end up with drooling fangirls, part 1:

Thorin Oakenshield

Fili sorry what am I talking about (first of many!) he's playing Kili.

THIS is Fili.Not that, actually, I don't completely see it. Cos I do. I just ( Read more... )

Hmn. The Other Coraline - the Stephen Meritt musical, which is orchestrated for 12 pianos (one normal, one prepared, and ten toys) and stars David Greenspan (a man) as the Other Mother and Jayne Houdyshell (a 55-year-old) as Coraline. I think I'm getting raised-eyebrow-strain from the casting, but on the other hand, Stephen Meritt and ten toy ( Read more... )

There was a Weta-hosted Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro webchat about the hobbit yesterday. I signed up to actually be there, and then forgot about it, but here's the transcript ( Read more... )