The Hobbit movies
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I guess that'll help solidify the idea that elderly Bilbo is telling his tale to Frodo as a flashback. That'd work, actually…
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About 48FPS from PJ:
Time for an update. Actually, we've been intending to kick off with a video, which is almost done, so look out for that in the next day or two. In the meantime, I thought I'd address the news that has been reported about us shooting THE HOBBIT at 48 frames per second, and explain to you what my thoughts are about this.
We are indeed shooting at the higher frame rate. The key thing to understand is that this process requires both shooting and projecting at 48 fps, rather than the usual 24 fps (films have been shot at 24 frames per second since the late 1920's). So the result looks like normal speed, but the image has hugely enhanced clarity and smoothness. Looking at 24 frames every second may seem ok–and we've all seen thousands of films like this over the last 90 years--but there is often quite a lot of blur in each frame, during fast movements, and if the camera is moving around quickly, the image can judder or "strobe.
Shooting and projecting at 48 fps does a lot to get rid of these issues. It looks much more lifelike, and it is much easier to watch, especially in 3-D. We've been watching HOBBIT tests and dailies at 48 fps now for several months, and we often sit through two hours worth of footage without getting any eye strain from the 3-D. It looks great, and we've actually become used to it now, to the point that other film experiences look a little primitive. I saw a new movie in the cinema on Sunday and I kept getting distracted by the juddery panning and blurring. We're getting spoilt!
Originally, 24 fps was chosen based on the technical requirements of the early sound era. I suspect it was the minimum speed required to get some audio fidelity out of the first optical sound tracks. They would have settled on the minimum speed because of the cost of the film stock. 35mm film is expensive, and the cost per foot (to buy the negative stock, develop it and print it), has been a fairly significant part of any film budget.
So we have lived with 24 fps for 9 decades--not because it's the best film speed (it's not by any stretch), but because it was the cheapest speed to achieve basic acceptable results back in 1927 or whenever it was adopted.
None of this thinking is new. Doug Trumbull developed and promoted a 60 frames per second process called ShowScan about 30 years ago and that looked great. Unfortunately it was never adopted past theme park use. I imagine the sheer expense of burning through expensive film stock at the higher speed (you are charged per foot of film, which is about 18 frames), and the projection difficulties in cinemas, made it tough to use for "normal" films, despite looking amazing. Actually, if anybody has been on the Star Tours ride at Disneyland, you've experienced the life like quality of 60 frames per second. Our new King Kong attraction at Universal Studios also uses 60 fps.
Now that the world's cinemas are moving towards digital projection, and many films are being shot with digital cameras, increasing the frame rate becomes much easier. Most of the new digital projectors are capable of projecting at 48 fps, with only the digital servers needing some firmware upgrades. We tested both 48 fps and 60 fps. The difference between those speeds is almost impossible to detect, but the increase in quality over 24 fps is significant.
Film purists will criticize the lack of blur and strobing artifacts, but all of our crew--many of whom are film purists--are now converts. You get used to this new look very quickly and it becomes a much more lifelike and comfortable viewing experience. It's similar to the moment when vinyl records were supplanted by digital CDs. There's no doubt in my mind that we're heading towards movies being shot and projected at higher frame rates.
Warner Bros. have been very supportive, and allowed us to start shooting THE HOBBIT at 48 fps, despite there never having been a wide release feature film filmed at this higher frame rate. We are hopeful that there will be enough theaters capable of projecting 48 fps by the time The Hobbit comes out where we can seriously explore that possibility with Warner Bros. However, while it's predicted that there may be over 10,000 screens capable of projecting THE HOBBIT at 48 fps by our release date in Dec, 2012, we don’t yet know what the reality will be. It is a situation we will all be monitoring carefully. I see it as a way of future-proofing THE HOBBIT. Take it from me--if we do release in 48 fps, those are the cinemas you should watch the movie in. It will look terrific!
Time to jump in the car and drive to Bag End for the day. Video coming soon!
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Rob Kazinsky is out, as Fili. They're searching for a new one.
About 48FPS from PJ:
They only film I remember having trouble watching was Quantum of Solace. Nothing stood still, and I could barely see what was happening on screen cus the camera would keep jerking around causing a lot of movement, and making it hard to see what the hell was happening.
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Rob Kazinsky is out, as Fili. They're searching for a new one.
What was the reason for his departure?
They only film I remember having trouble watching was Quantum of Solace. Nothing stood still, and I could barely see what was happening on screen cus the camera would keep jerking around causing a lot of movement, and making it hard to see what the hell was happening.
Was that filmed in any unusual way? I had no trouble with the visuals at all that I recall…but what you're describing sounds like whatever the camera man did and nothing to do with the fps.
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What was the reason for his departure?
All that's being said is 'personal reasons' (Imho it's no real loss, in the UK he was only ever acclaimed for a soap opera.
Was that filmed in any unusual way? I had no trouble with the visuals at all that I recall…but what you're describing sounds like whatever the camera man did and nothing to do with the fps.
I dunno, I just remember having issue with it on first watching in the cinema. Everything moved so fast and it was blurry at times cus of the speed.
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Was that filmed in any unusual way? I had no trouble with the visuals at all that I recall…but what you're describing sounds like whatever the camera man did and nothing to do with the fps.
Yeah, I only saw Quantum of Solace once, and I didn't pay that close attention, but I can still tell you that the problems he mentioned were not due to the framerate, but the clipping rhythm. (Or whatever it's called in English.) Basically, they'd cut to a different angle like, once every second. It's like the director had some sort of personal vendetta against seeing the scenes from the same angle at more than a second at a time, and so demanded that they make the cuts so stupidly short it was almost impossible to make out what was going on.
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http://catchthefilm.com/the-hobbit-peter-jackson-first-look-film-production/
Here some first impressions.
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Great find, a video from a month and a half ago.
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Benadict Cumberbatch and Stephen Fry have joined the cast. As well as Hugo Weaving reprising as Elrond.
Benadict Cumberbatch's role was said to be strict under wraps as when it was accidentally revealed he got real tight-lipped.
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He's got a bit of an elfish look to him, maybe a character in Mirkwood?
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Maybe he's been cast as Bard.
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http://www.facebook.com/notes/the-hobbit/orlando-bloom-joins-the-cast-of-the-hobbit/205391369496476
BLOOM is back as Legolas.
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Just gonna leave this here…
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Movie titles and dates announced: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13599286
The first film will be called The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and will be released in December next year.
The Hobbit: There and Back Again is scheduled to be out in December 2013.
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Pretty good titles. They're probably the best ones that could have been picked.
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Both Bard and Smaug have been cast:
http://movies.ign.com/articles/117/1176988p1.html
http://movies.ign.com/articles/117/1177002p1.htmlIt's Luke Evans for Bard the Bowman and Benedict Cumberbatch for Smaug (via motion-capture).
Aside from the awesome name, watching the video in that article of Benedict's work at first I wasn't sure if I agreed with the choice of him for Smaug (one of the most awesome dragons ever). But then near the end his character (he plays Sherlock, apparently) says, "Oh, I am playing." When I heard that I thought, "Okay, I can hear him as Smaug now, if he keeps it in that low register."
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Hrm. He's also voicing the Necromancer/Sauron? I dunno about that, it always bothered me when John Ravies did both Gimli AND Treebeard… great voice, and some folks have a ton of range, but... when its a big budget pic you dont need to be double casting...
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Cumberbatch will be great; he stars with Martin Freeman, our very own Bilbo in Sherlock which is doing really successfuly.
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Oh God. Barry Humphries … or do we say Dame Edna has landed a part in this as 'The Goblin King.'
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Quickly, someone photoshop these two images together!
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Cumberbatch barffffffffffffffff
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Cumberbatch barffffffffffffffff
you hatin on cumberbatch?
don't make me slap you upside the face.
Quickly, someone photoshop these two images together!
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Bowie was a Boss in that film. The best villains are always the ever so slightly androgynous ones. See Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a325763/evangeline-lilly-joins-cast-of-the-hobbit.html
Another new addition to the cast.
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CumberFAR T
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http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/news/a325763/evangeline-lilly-joins-cast-of-the-hobbit.html
Another new addition to the cast.
I hate Kate episodes.
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kate eipsodes were pretty terrible, even in the first season when everything was good.
best episodes were the korean couple's, lets cast some kroeans in a tolkein movie, which monster race that serves a dark lord is based off asians, i know they had evil arab people
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Peter's so skinny, good for him.
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@Sonic:
Peter's so skinny, good for him.
he got skinny because making king kong was literally unhealthy and he lost wieght that would be scary if he was not a fat prson beforehnad
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@Monkey:
he got skinny because making king kong was literally unhealthy and he lost wieght that would be scary if he was not a fat prson beforehnad
The new celebrity diet?
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hey how did gollum not fucking turn into dust after he lost the ring, he was like 500 years old
bilbo turned into a prune after only a few decades(?) without it
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Not sure if it was ever officially stated, but it had always been said that Gollum never really gave up the ring…it was stolen from him and he put all his energy into getting it back, while Bilbo willfully let go of it and passed it on.
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Plus Gollum lived off its evil energies for centuries. Probably had a dormant connection to him.
He probably would have died shortly after the ring was destroyed tho, if he hadn't fallen in with it.
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I haven't watched this movie. Actually i haven't heard about this movie. But i will try to look forward to it.
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Of course you haven't, it hasn't even been filmed yet.
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Is that Bilbo? If so, he already looks way more hobbit-like than Elijah Wood (sorry, Elijah).
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Yes! :D
http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20504849_20980350,00.htmlthere's a couple more pictures.
We'll all have to wait until Dec. 14, 2012, for the full fruits of director Peter Jackson's labors on his two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit. But, to tide us over, Jackson has shared the first images from his Lord of the Rings prequels with EW — and talked to us about how the fantasy epic is shaping up so far. (For the full story, pick up the issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands June 24.)
MARTIN FREEMAN (BILBO BAGGINS)
''He fits the ears, and he's got some very nice feet,'' Jackson says of his Bilbo. ''I think he's got the biggest hobbit feet we've had so far. They're a little bit hard to walk in, but he's managed to figure out the perfect hobbit gait.'''He's in fantastic form,'' Peter Jackson says of McKellen. ''In a way, his role in The Hobbit has more technical difficulties than Lord of the Rings did, because he has scenes with 14 smaller characters — obviously the dwarves and the hobbit are shorter… I remember saying to him [laughs], ''Look, this isn't Waiting for Godot or King Lear. This is The Hobbit. This is the real thing.''
PETER JACKSON WITH MARTIN FREEMAN
''There's no way you can pace yourself for shoots like these,'' Jackson says. ''When we were going through the schedule for The Hobbit, I felt a terrible drop in my stomach when I saw that we'd be shooting for 254 days. We're only 12 days short of The Lord of the Rings even though we're only doing two movies. When I saw that, I had to sort of pick myself up off the floor and carry on.'' -
Ah I was wondering where those were; I noticed it said pictureS in the article but could only find that Bilbo one. Nice grab; the Gandalf one looks interesting.
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It's Gandalf, he always looks interesting.
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Thar be dwarves in the background !!!!
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Is Peter Jackson putting weight back on? He was scary skinny for a while there, and now he looks kind of chubby again.
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He looks a little chubbier in recent photos I've seen, he's definitely falling back into the old scruffy look though :)
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@RobbyBevard:
Is Peter Jackson putting weight back on? He was scary skinny for a while there, and now he looks kind of chubby again.
I thought that as well, but I think it might just be the way his cardigan falls.
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We has dwarves
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.217504371618509.50553.160617097307237
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DORI, NORI & ORI
These three brothers, all sons of the same mother, could not be more different from each other. Dori, the oldest, spends much of his time watching out for Ori, the youngest; making sure he’s not caught a chill or got himself killed by Wargs or Goblins. Nobody quite knows what Nori gets up to most of the time, except that it’s guaranteed to be dodgy and quite probably, illegal. Dori, Nori and Ori are intensely loyal to each other – and whilst they are perfectly happy fighting amongst themselves, woe-betide anyone who means harm to one of these brothers.Distant cousins of Thorin Oakenshield, these two doughty Northern Dwarves join the Company out of a sense of loyalty to their kin, and also because they have a substantial sum of money invested in the venture. Along with Bombur, Gloin is the only other married Dwarf in the Company (there being a shortage of female dwarves in general). His wife is an acclaimed beauty with a particularly fine beard. Gloin is the proud father of a young son, Gimli, who will go on to become part of the famous Fellowship of the Ring.
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I like how those posters have large gaps of space above their heads, showcasing their short dwarve-ness, even though they're normally proportioned. You wouldnt get that sense of scale if they filled their images.
Also really like that they're getting distinct looks and designs among their different cultures and groupings, that'll help set them apart in ways the Rankin Bass one didn't. There's 13 of them after all. I especially like how much Gloin looks like Gimli. Or is that the other way around?
Oh, and has the new production diary not been posted here yet?
https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150314562706807&oid=141884481557&comments -
No, I just watched it. I can't help but feel a little bad for the people making the film, so much hard work. I'm sure nobody regrets it though. I'm still a little skeptical on how they're going to fit all these dwarves in the film evenly and make them all seem like they need to be there.
I like how someone finally removed the question mark in the threat title. :P
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No, I just watched it. I can't help but feel a little bad for the people making the film, so much hard work.
I like how everyone is going "Well, after two months of work, I'm taking a vacation!" while Ian McKellan is all "Yes, I'm flying for 30 hours to London where I'm going to perform in a play."
I'm still a little skeptical on how they're going to fit all these dwarves in the film evenly and make them all seem like they need to be there.
Well, they have two films to give them time, and some of them are just going to be sort of cordoned off as matched groups (kind of the way Pippin and Merry were largely interchangeable for a while) but I imagine a lot of them are going to be just sort of there all the same. Only a couple of them that really need focus anyway.
I like how someone finally removed the question mark in the threat title. :P
I would have done it sooner if I'd thought about it.
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And we have Fili and Kili.
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AIDAN Turner !
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Kili doesn't even look like a dwarf. D:
They look cool though.
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I was thinking the same thing…what is the explanation for that, incomplete makeup, or is this indicative of young dwarves? They get bulkier and bigger noses as they get older?