Update on "The Cross" and "the Hobbit"

This is the first alert I have received on this topic so far so I will let you know soon if it checks out..but, this article is about where in Australia the film "The Cross" will be filmed..
you can find it here on The Herald..
I can't wait^^

Production on Hobbiton has re-started, according to stuff.co.nz...the Hobbit holes are coming back to life^^..still no news on who will play Bilbo or Thranduil or if Orlando will be back...I will let you know as soon as possible^^

hopefully more soon!

huggers,
Veronica

Jackson and Del Toro Talk Hobbit

Empire Movie News have an exclusive on The Hobbit for the 20th Anniversary edition...

“We’ve decided to have The Hobbit span the two movies, including the White Council and the comings and goings of Gandalf to Dol Guldur,” says Del Toro.

“We decided it would be a mistake to try to cram everything into one movie,” adds Jackson. “The essential brief was to do The Hobbit, and it allows us to make The Hobbit in a little more style, if you like, of the [LOTR] trilogy.”

So there you go. The second film will not, as had previously been suggested, a film that will bridge the 60-year gap between The Hobbit and the start of Fellowship Of The Ring.

The 20th birthday issue of Empire, on sale next Thursday (23rd April) UK.

Tolkien Sketches See Daylight

chroniclelive.co.uk has an article showing the recently discovered, original sketches, from a 1960 edition of The Lord of The Rings, by graphic author James Cawthorn. Cawthorn became the first artist, other than Tolkien himself, to illustrate the famous books.