So many names have bee attached to the Hobbit usually pertaining to the lead role and who will portray young Bilbo Baggins. We have also heard that Viggo Mortensen was interested in playing Aragorn. Now we have heard that character actor Brian Cox is eyeing a role in the next film.
Ain’t It Cool News,is reporting [...]

MGM has landed support from key lenders to allow it to proceed with its participation in The Hobbit. Early this week we reported a story that MGM was in trouble and that their financial predicament may lose them Bond, The Hobbit and other properties that could possibly eliminate the historical Hollywood studio.
In that report [...]

After a Hobbit update from Peter Jackson during SDCC we now have some more rumor squabbishing from its director, Guillermo del Toro. He is well aware of all the rumors circulating around the latest film in the LOTR saga, The Hobbit and now he’s putting the rumors to death or rest whichever you may put [...]

Apparently there have been rumors that have been running rampant around the internet that Peter Jackson will be announcing Bilbo Baggins casting news for The Hobbit at this year’s Comic-Con but it seems that won’t be the case.
Empire magazine got some things straight from the man himself as he spoke to them about the rumor [...]

Many of The Lord of the Rings movie sets are being reconstructed for the upcoming prequel, The Hobbit.  Red Carpet tours is again advertising their tours of Middle-Earth, i.e. New Zealand, after a bit of a hiatus since The Return of the King.
This means a couple of things:  one, that there is a renewed demand [...]

TheOneRing.net got a hold of a BBC radio interview with Hobbit director Guillermo del Toro who confirmed that Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis and Hugo Weaving will be back for The Hobbit. The director told Simon Mayo in the BBC interview that McKellen, Serkis and Weaving will return,
“…as the roles they originated in the trilogy,”
which [...]

J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic, The Hobbit, will now officially be made into two separate movies.  Originally, Executive Producer, Peter Jackson, announced two Lord of the Ring prequels to be released, one being the Hobbit and the other a transitional piece that would bridge the gap between the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings [...]

Recently, Guillermo Del Toro spoke about the Hobbit during a Hellboy II DVD live chat, fansite - BilboHobbit.com had a transcript of the chat with some new details on the Hobbit movie.
Transcript:
- Universal announced a pretty busy slate for you after The Hobbit. Will we see a Hellboy 3?
Guillermo del Toro: If its up [...]

The Tolkien Trust (a British charity that manages the estate of J.R.R. Tolkien) and publisher HarperCollins brought a $150 million lawsuit against New Line Cinema on Monday, claiming the trust has not received any of its gross profit participation payments for the three films based on the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. The suit was [...]

So with the news of Guillermo Del Toro helming the Hobbit movie there circulates the news of the film being made into 2 films and not one.
Del Toro is a good pic for director that much I will tell the visualnes sof the film will be outstanding and worthy of Middle Earth. However, the story [...]