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‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ Trailer: First Look At Smaug & Tauriel; The Return Of Legolas
After the release of the first official look at Tauriel (Evangeline Lilly) last week, and the film’s first poster this past weekend, the first offical trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug has finally debuted.
Hit the jump to see the full trailer here below.
The film follows Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and his band of fearless dwarves, and Gandalf the Grey, who are on a quest to obtain gold that was stolen from them from a great dragon called Smaug. Not only do we get our first look at Smaug, Tauriel, Beron the Bear, and Bard, but we also get to see the return of Legolas (Orlando Bloom).
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Watch 6 Minutes Of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug’ Event
On Sunday, March 24, 2013, Peter Jackson hosted an exclusive live online event to premiere new footage from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – the second film in his trilogy inspired by the classic J.R.R. Tolkien fantasy novel – and answer questions from viewers and a selection of special surprise guests. This event was open only to those who had purchased The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey on Blu-ray and received a unique passcode to access the live feed.
Today, Jackson has released a 6-minute edited excerpt of the event on his YouTube channel. You can watch the video here below.
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‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’ Release Date Moved To December 2014
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The Hobbit: There and Back Again, the final chapter in Peter Jackson‘s three-part adaptation of the classic J.R.R. Tolkien novel that would one day lead to the creation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, was originally supposed to open in theaters on July 18, 2014. But in a move that surprised very little, There and Back Again had its release date pushed back five months and will now open on December 17, 2014.
This date shift makes a lot more sense, as each movie in Jackson’s Rings trilogy and last year’s The Hobbit: An Expected Journey all had December openings and were immense box office successes around the world. Plus it gives the director and his gifted production team some much-needed time to work on the voluminous 3D visual effects work required and fine tune the movie, and a holiday slot protects There and Back Again from contending with the blockbuster onslaught that comes with a summer release.
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‘The Hobbit’ At 48 fps: Pulling Us Out Of Our Comfort Zone
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I have seen the future, and it plays at 48 frames per second. It may not currently be without notable flaws, but technological revolutions seldom begin as such.
This week I saw a Digital IMAX projection of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in HFR. HFR (High Frame Rate) is a marketing term for digital video projected at 48 fps (frames per second), exactly twice the current film frame rate standard of 24 fps.
As some have accurately criticized, to the unaccustomed eye this has the tendency of making the film look like a 70’s BBC TV drama or an old soap opera (that’s because rather than using film, pre-HDTV era soap operas were acquired using economically efficient video cameras which captured at a rate of 60 interlaced fields per second, or the equivalent of 30 frames per second).
During scenes populated mostly by CGI characters I often felt I was watching a cutscene from a fantasy videogame. The high frame rate also appears to reveal more potential imperfections, particularly in scenes involving actors. At times Ian Holm‘s (older Bilbo Baggins) face looked so waxy and dull I thought his makeup was applied by morticians. Makeup artists are going to have to be more stringent than ever in the HFR world. In fact, I’d say the majority of criticism attributed to the “eerie” look of this new process is an indication that all filmmaking disciplines will need to reinvent themselves to meet the challenge of the medium.
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Tags: 48 FPS, digital cinema, frame rate, frames per second, HFR, High Frame Rate, Ian Holm, IMAX, Peter Jackson, Skeuomorph, Skeuomorphism, The Hobbit, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
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The Drill Down 258: The First Taste Is Free
This week, the UN meets to decide the fate of the Internet & the U.S. pushes back, will your cellphones cost full price in the future?, Twitter & Instagram fight for your photo data, Apple is “˜Made in the USA’ again, Tesla takes Motor Trend‘s Car of the Year, and Will “˜The Hobbit‘ make you nauseous?
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Tags: Apple, Car of the Year, Google, Google Apps, HFR, Instagram, International Telecommunications Union, internet, internet laws, iPhone, Kodak, Mac, Mac Pro, Macintosh, Motor Trend, News Corp, Patent wars, patents, t mobile, Tesla, Tesla Model S, The Daily, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Tim Cook, Twitter, UN, United Nations, World Conference on International Telecommunications
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