Official 'The Hobbit' Thread - Part 5

[Kane52630]

Final Film in The Hobbit Trilogy Slated for July 18, 2014,
2nd Film Retitled The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94283

Warner Bros. Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures jointly announced today that the final film in Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of the enduringly popular masterpiece "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien, now titled The Hobbit: There and Back Again, will be released worldwide on July 18, 2014. All three films in the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures.

The Studios also announced the title of the second installment in the franchise, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which will be released on December 13, 2013. The first film in the trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, opens this holiday season, on December 14, 2012. Shot in 3D 48 frames-per-second, the trilogy of films will be released in High Frame Rate (HFR) 3D, other 3D formats, IMAX and 2D.

Dan Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, stated, "We wanted to have a shorter gap between the second and third films of 'The Hobbit' Trilogy. Opening in July affords us not only the perfect summer tentpole, but fans will have less time to wait for the finale of this epic adventure."

Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, added, "'The Hobbit: There and Back Again' will be an action spectacle and an emotional conclusion for this already much-anticipated trilogy. Opening in the summer will maximize playability for what promises to be an event film for fans the world over."

From Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson, the trilogy of films is set in Middle-earth 60 years before "The Lord of the Rings," which Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster trilogy that culminated with the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The screenplay for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first film in the trilogy, is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro. Jackson is also producing the films, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.

Under Jackson's direction, all three movies are being shot in digital 3D using the latest camera and stereo technology. Additional filming, as with principal photography, is taking place at Stone Street Studios, Wellington, and on location around New Zealand.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and the two remaining films in the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television licensing, being handled by MGM.

 

[Boom]

Final Film in The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Slated for July 18, 2014

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94283

My misgivings about three films aside, The Desolation of Smaug is a great title. And at least we don't have to wait until December 2014 to see the Battle of Five Armies.

 

[Liam_H]

Would've like it if the last film was released over Christmas as well. Keep the symmetry like the first trilogy.

 

[craigdbfan]

That's a badass subtitle.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Would've like it if the last film was released over Christmas as well. Keep the symmetry like the first trilogy.

I'm fine with them cutting the wait time down. I'm not getting any younger.

 

[Anno_Domini]

Final Film in The Hobbit Trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Slated for July 18, 2014

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94283

The Desolation of Smaug is the second film of the trilogy, not the final film.

 

[Kane52630]

It's fixed, thanks.

 

[CGHulk]

In order.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: There and Back Again


For people who are thinking the third film was going to be just the appendices, the third title confirms that the story will end on Frodo. With him returning to the Shire, there and back again! The appendices just stretches out the story within the body of the three films.

 

[warhorse78]

That picture of Kili is badass! Can not wait for this movie!

I so agree. I really cannon wait for not only this one, but all three. The ending of this first one, I know is going to leave me hungry for more!

 

[jmc]

Anyone else find it funny that a book one third the size of Lord of the Rings is going to be exactly the same length in terms of movie adaptations?

 

[Boom]

"Funny" is not the word I would use .

 

[craigdbfan]

I think money is the word you're looking for.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Final Film in The Hobbit Trilogy Slated for July 18, 2014,
2nd Film Retitled The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94283

Follows the pattern that WB Is sticking specific months which have always been succesful for them.

Out of my head
July 2008 TDK
July 2009 Harry Potter
July 2010 INception
July 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
July 2012 TDRK
July 2013 Pacific RIm
July 2014 Hobbit part 3


But this puts it head to head with X-Men : Days of Future Past

 

[jmc]

I think money is the word you're looking for.

I see what you did there.

 

[jmc]

But this puts it head to head with X-Men : Days of Future Past

Sucks for that movie.

 

[Boom]

Sucks for that movie.

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah Fox better move X-Men or else expect that movie to bomb hard.

 

[AnneFan]

I am a fan of the second film's title.

In order.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hobbit: There and Back Again

Looks good.

 

[jacobed]

Yeah Fox better move X-Men or else expect that movie to bomb hard.

People will go see both easily

 

[Kane52630]

People will go see both easily

Both films appeal to the same demographic, one is gonna get the short end of the stick opening weekend that wont have a successful box office run (and seeing how First Class didn't opening big, I think it's X-men). The majority of people will go to one of those movies, sure a few might see both on opening weekend but that's just it, just some.

 

[regwec]

Final Film in The Hobbit Trilogy Slated for July 18, 2014,
2nd Film Retitled The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=94283

I loathe this idea so completely that it makes me perspire, slightly.

For people who are thinking the third film was going to be just the appendices, the third title confirms that the story will end on Frodo. With him returning to the Shire, there and back again! The appendices just stretches out the story within the body of the three films.

Frodo?

I feel the need to re state a well-worn sentiment: stretching The Hobbit over 6-9 hours of film is like trying to scrape a little butter over too much bread.

My concerns were allayed slightly when it appeared that the first part was to contain the story of "The Hobbit", while the second and third would contain PJ's expansion of the appendices, that I wouldn't have to go and see. But now it seems that the core narrative is going to be thinned out over all three movies in order to provide a veneer of license-based franchise justification for the whole project.

Why not just remaster it with more aliens?

 

[kedrell]

I think "The Desolation of the Dragon" would have been a better subtitle for film 2 but this still works.

 

[psylockolussus]

Major @ WB for releasing the third movie in the release date of X-Men: Days of Future Past!

 

[the amazing fro]

Yeah, I've got a bad feeling about this one. I really don't see how this can work. It never needed to be two movies in the first place but with an expansion of the appendices I thought it could still be good. But a trilogy just reeks of somebody trying to squeeze as much money as possible from what is essentially a simple children's fairytale. Either Jackson has added a lot of new stuff or there is LOT of padding.

I'd like to put my trust in Jackson but since I've seen both King Kong and The Lovely Bones, I am unable to muster any confidence that this will end well.

 

[Drizzle]

Anyone else find it funny that a book one third the size of Lord of the Rings is going to be exactly the same length in terms of movie adaptations?

I seriously doubt that each of these films will max out to three hours. Maybe the first one (if they still decide to end it on the dwarves escaping Mirkwood), but I can't see the second and third films going longer than 2 hours each. There just isn't enough material for a 9 hour epic, and that's including the White Council. But then again, this is Peter Jackson we're talking about here.

Follows the pattern that WB Is sticking specific months which have always been succesful for them.

Out of my head
July 2008 TDK
July 2009 Harry Potter
July 2010 INception
July 2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
July 2012 TDRK
July 2013 Pacific RIm
July 2014 Hobbit part 3


But this puts it head to head with X-Men : Days of Future Past

They've been doing that since even before TDK with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005 and Harry Potter 5 in 2007.

People will go see both easily

But not in the same weekend. I would, of course, but most people wouldn't. Hopefully they move X-Men up instead of pushing it back.