Movie The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

[Donners]

The IMAX 3D screening will feature a nine minute preview of the next Star Trek film.

I am not a fan of IMAX, but that's very tempting...

http://www.paramount.com/news/press...k-into-darkness-to-debut-in-imax-3d-on-decemb

 

[glenferry23]

hobbit 3D + IMAX + 9 minutes of star trek = OMG

 

[Dont be a lemon]

Given the extreme success of The Lord of the Rings trilogy I'm surprised to read that while it's released in America on December 14 (and earlier in heap of places) they've held the Australia release date until December 26 (Boxing Day). Wouldn't of thought they had the gall to pull that stunt in today's ultra constant media environment.

Hoyts and AHL must have fantastic lobbyists?

 

[Caesar]

The LOTR films have always been released on Boxing Day.

 

[Roobs321]

LOTR (and especially The Hobbit) are really perfect Boxing Day films, it just makes sense to save it until then. If it gets good reviews, the hype will only increase until Dec 26.

We often get films first in the globe due to our timezone and thursday openings, so it's nothing major.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

The LOTR films have always been released on Boxing Day.

Not in the rest of the world. And it was 9-11 years ago.

 

[Caesar]

So?

 

[glenferry23]

over the last few years we've seemed to have the blockbuster movies released on the same day as the US etc, and with the time difference we've actually had them before the rest of the world. films such as dark knight rises, avengers etc spring to mind from this year.

 

[Caesar]

It depends on the time of the year. Mid-December is a bad time to release movies in Australia, so movies usually get held over a couple of weeks til post-Christmas.

Most Boxing Day movies have been released a couple of weeks earlier in the rest of the world.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

So?

Soooo in 2001-03 releasing 'blockbuster' films on simultaneous/near simultaneous dates wasn't international standard practice like it is today.

We often get films first in the globe due to our timezone and thursday openings

Which is why it's such a transparent dick move for Hoyts and AHL etc to have successfully stalled the release until 26 December, purely to massage their post-Christmas sales.

Belgium 12 December 2012
Denmark 12 December 2012
Finland 12 December 2012
France 12 December 2012
Netherlands 12 December 2012
New Zealand 12 December 2012
Norway 12 December 2012
Sweden 12 December 2012
Argentina 13 December 2012
Bosnia and Herzegovina 13 December 2012
Chile 13 December 2012
Croatia 13 December 2012
Germany 13 December 2012
Greece 13 December 2012
Hong Kong 13 December 2012
Hungary 13 December 2012
Ireland 13 December 2012
Israel 13 December 2012
Italy 13 December 2012
Portugal 13 December 2012
Serbia 13 December 2012
Singapore 13 December 2012
Slovenia 13 December 2012
Thailand 13 December 2012
UK 13 December 2012
Brazil 14 December 2012
Bulgaria 14 December 2012
Canada 14 December 2012
Estonia 14 December 2012
Japan 14 December 2012
Lithuania 14 December 2012
Mexico 14 December 2012
Paraguay 14 December 2012
Romania 14 December 2012
South Africa 14 December 2012
Spain 14 December 2012
Turkey 14 December 2012
USA 14 December 2012
Armenia 19 December 2012
Russia 19 December 2012
Ukraine 20 December 2012
Colombia 25 December 2012

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903624/releaseinfo

How will they cope with the madness of seeing a film in the pre-Christmas rush

 

[Heisenberg_]

Who goes to the movies on Boxing Day anyway, bloody ridiculous we have to wait a couple of weeks after the rest of the world.

 

[Roobs321]

Who goes to the movies on Boxing Day anyway, bloody ridiculous we have to wait a couple of weeks after the rest of the world.

Even more relevant, honestly, who goes to the movies in the week leading up to xmas? My birthday is on Dec 23rd, so I saw Space Jam and The Pokemon movie on that date as a kid, but in general, the cinema is the last thing on my mind in the lead up to xmas. Opening a film in Australia on, say, December 20, is just dumb.

 

[Caesar]

The pre-Christmas thing is less of a big deal in the northern hemisphere. We have school breaking up for summer mid-December, and most people working overtime to get stuff done before their businesses enter the late December/early January coma period. Then you've got Christmas drinks, parties, etc. It's crazy.

Maybe it's different if you're a uni student who finishes your exams at the end of November but most people are so busy the two weeks before Christmas that they don't have time to scratch themselves.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Brazil (mostly), South Africa are all 'southern' countries...

I broadly enjoyed The Lord of the Rings films but the first sentence on The Hobbit's Wikipedia page describes it is a "children's book".

Will it entertain this adult who has never read a Tolkien book?

 

[Caesar]

New Zealand is kind of special because they have to get the world premiere. The others are obviously vastly different countries to Australia despite being in the southern hemisphere.

Having read The Hobbit as a child, and read synopses of the movie, it appears that the basic plot has been sexed up substantially to make it more LOTR-like. The book is very short and more of a fairytale story that exclusively follows Bilbo's journey. Although battles occur they are almost exclusively ex-narrative, and only referred to in dialogue.

It appears that the movies will follow more of a LOTR format, switching between 'journey' story and the experiences of the secondary characters (which includes the battles and so forth). I presume this is to serve the dual purpose of appealing to the LOTR fans and also to stretch out the material to two films.

 

[CF]

personally I can't wait. They spent one billion dollars to make the trilogy and all reports it is a faster paced movie than LOTR which had some slow parts. There has been so much shit at the cinema recently let's hope this one is as great as LOTR.

 

[Sterge]

New Zealand, Argentina, Chile, Brazil (mostly), South Africa are all 'southern' countries...

I broadly enjoyed The Lord of the Rings films but the first sentence on The Hobbit's Wikipedia page describes it is a "children's book".

Will it entertain this adult who has never read a Tolkien book?

Expect Jackson to make it very much in the same vein as the LOTR films, so yes it should do even if the source material is aimed at a younger audience.

 

[TheGhostOfJohnBelushi]

two films.

It's actually 3 films now

 

[Caesar]

****.

 

[Dirtywhirl]

Reviews starting to come in

Consensus seems to be that although it's not amazing it is an acceptable addition to the LOTR movies

 

[eaglespremiers]

My birthday is on Dec 23rd

Hey, mine too.

 

[Roobs321]

I cant help but feel disenfranchised with the this whole Hobbit trilogy thing. To me, The Hobbit was like a different world to LOTR. I wish they had kept the books tone, and not gone for LOTR epicness.

The Hobbit died when Del Toro left the project I guess.

 

[eaglespremiers]

The Hobbit died when Del Toro left the project I guess.

Whether The Hobbit movies are what one hope for remains to be seen.
I doubt Del Toro was ever the answer though.
His movies are hit and miss.

 

[Roobs321]

Whether The Hobbit movies are what one hope for remains to be seen.
I doubt Del Toro was ever the answer though.
His movies are hit and miss.

I agree that his films are hit & miss, but he has the right style for the material imo. Peter Jackson can be hit & miss too.

 

[eaglespremiers]

I agree that his films are hit & miss, but he has the right style for the material imo. Peter Jackson can be hit & miss too.

Very true re. Peter Jackson.
But when I look at Del Toro's better movies (that I have seen) like Blade 2 and Pan's Labyrinth it doesn't scream Hobbit material to me.