News from the set [2]

yes some of them are adorable, the silly billies.

apart from that mod.

The industry gathering in Barcelona kicked off Monday with a discussion about the higher costs for movie theatre operators

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cine-europe-2012-higher-frame-rate-hobbit-338652

New Avatar movie to be 60 fps, where will it end

the eye has a limit so it'll soon be pointless.

My brain has a limit its not stopped PJ messing with it though!

next stop holodeck?

I wonder if the 48fps vs 60fps debate will split advocates of higher frame rates and make it harder to adopt them in the long run. PJ says that the difference between 48 and 60 is negligible but perhaps James Camreon disagrees -- or just wants to keep being a trailblazer. I'm not sure I'd mourn the non-adoption of higher frame rates if that happens, though I'm still waiting to actually see them in action in The Hobbit.

I think there will come a time where 48 or 60 fps will be too much. Yes, it'll look more realistic, but remember, there is a limit to how much information a brain can take in and sort out. for instance, you don't remember in detail, every smell, sound EVERYTHING!, you've done in a day because the brain sort out the non-important stuff. If it is a movie, I don't think the brain will cope and it'll look messy. At least 12 fps tells you what to focus on.

Billy Connolly from an interview with the NZHerald.

"What an experience," he says of filming The Hobbit. "It's a huge undertaking. It's like a war."
He says as a dwarf, he's doing a lot of fighting.
"I hate them all. Kill them all, the bastards. Especially elves," he says.
"Get right in among the elves, but they're the most beautiful of them all.
"Blonde hair, braided and they're all slimmy and extremely tall.
"And we're very broad and low and f****n 'Have that' with our axes and they've got their skinny swords and all that."

Blonde hair? I hope he is not meaning poor Lego?

i'm with you there, mrs Figg, not our dear Lego

'Blonde hair, braided and they're all slimmy and extremely tall.'

I'll assume a woman is meant, if any one person, but it's not certain (noting blonde versus blond).

I suppose he could be talking about an attractive goat, as in Legolamb

Mincy wincy
spick and spam
Mrs Figg loves
Legolamb!
Be he curvy
be he glam
Mrs Figg loves
Legolamb.

Tom Cruise: When Not Being an Egomaniac in War of the Worlds.

by Wisey Banks

I know goat is not sheep btw

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but apparently the "trailer #2" we've been anticipating is actually just a cut-down version of the first trailer and does not include any new footage. It was apparently re-edited so it would be suitable to be shown in front of Brave (as was speculated), which is rated PG. TH is pretty much a lock for a PJ-13 rating.

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/06/21/57583-confirmation-hobbit-trailer-2-not-new-material/

I hope we'll get new material sometime in mid-July when Comic-Con and The Dark Knight Rises, WB's big movie of the summer, both hit.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Billy Connolly from an interview with the NZHerald.

I wonder if Billy Connolly's repeated elf-bashing in interviews is just for fun/publicity or if they're going to have actual fighting between dwarves and elves at the Battle of the Five Armies. IIRC that would mean changing the events there, though it could potentially boil down to a fairly minor tweaking of the timeline.

I reckon PJ is going to alter it so the dwarves and elves are actually in the middle of a big battle before they join forces.

Yep, that sounds right

You guys get worked up over anything

More Hobbit info at San Diego's Comic Con eh? Lucky me. I happen to be attending this year's Comic Con.

bummer about the new trailer, I was looking forward to that.

Didn't even know there was a new trailer coming out

I assume we will see a proper second trailer with new footage soon, though? Maybe I'm just being impatient but I feel it's been longer than usual between the first and second...

Im guessing there will be an all new trailer at the end of Autumn.

There's sure to be a second trailer, and possibly a third as well. I still think Comic-Con is when we're most likely to see all-new footage. It's from July 12-15 this year. Warner Bros. has already booked a three hour panel for Saturday, July 14. That's when The Hobbit is most likely to come up.