Just a few highlights from the past weeks:

Wellington Town Hall “off-limits” as NZSO records for The Hobbit

Analysing the role of The Necromancer in The Hobbit

Benedict Cumberbatch to be honoured with Britannia award - Congratulations Benedict! This is well-earned! :D

Peter Jackson receives New Zealand’s highest honour - And congratulations to ( Read more... )

Finally started watching To the Ends of the Earth starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and while I knew Sam Neill and Tom HiddlestonJJ Feilds were in it, I was tickled to discover among the crew members of the ship one of the actors from The Last Enemy. I don't know his name (and am too lazy to look him up), but he played Yasim's friend, the skinny bloke ( Read more... )

These are not news by any stretch of the imagination - just want to put these links here for completion's sake.

No Wellington premiere for Desolation of Smaug - a slight updated on that are in the following article:

Hobbit news in brief: new production video soon, trailer reactions and premiere update

The first The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug ( Read more... )

Watch it before the BBC has it taken down...

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Also, check out Martin and Benedict's video message for the fans at the first ever Sherlock panel at San Diego Comic Con. In the course of which Benedict finally spills the beans about how Sherlock did it... kind of. ;) (No spoilers, promise!)

of this amazing Times Magazine article/interview that Caitlin Moran very recently did with Benedict Cumberbatch: What’s not to love about Benedict Cumberbatch?There are so many parts I want to quote, I'd have to copy/paste pretty much the whole thing over! The one where she asks him to do some acting and he does John Harrison and Smaug for her ( Read more... )

Took LJ Maintenance long enough to sort out whatever was the problem... *hrmph*

Anyway... saw Star Trek Into Darkness last night at the IMAX and it was great! Even better than the first one from 2009, so we both thoroughly enjoyed it. Benedict was fantastic, as expected, and oh it was nice listening to his voice in that growly low register he used ( Read more... )

Still looking very good... and more of Benedict Cumberbatch! *drools* Bring on May 15th already! (We got tickets to one of the early screenings! *bounce*)

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Jeremy Jahns, who did a review of the Star Trek Into Darkness teaser trailer (see my earlier post about it), now did another review of the Superbowl trailer. He's still a total Benedict Cumberbatch fanboy and admits that "it's almost mancrush-ish at this point", hee.

( Superbowl trailer )

One of the covers of the February 2013 issue of Empire Magazine:


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So as mentioned previously, we went to the midnight screening of The Hobbit last night - the IMAX HFR 3D version, to be precise. We arrived at the cinema shortly after 9:30pm already, to make sure we could still get decent seats, and a good thing too - there was already a queue. We got our copies of the lovely posters that were being handed out - ( Read more... )