The Hobbit is Coming! The Hobbit is Coming! Release Date for The Hobbit 3-D

Announced today that Warner Home Video has given March 19, 2013 as the release date for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in Blue-ray 3-D, Blue-ray and DVD. There is also a combo pack that will contain  Blu-ray 3-D, Blue-ray, DVD and UltraViolet for The Hobbits home video debut. The combo pack will be presented in 2.4:1 1080pvideo and 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio. Warner Bros. usually do not include extra surround channels, but this release is a special occasion.

  For bonus features, Warner Bros. is including bonus features including 10 video blogs as well as some other nice extras to extend the experience beyond the feature film. They are

- New Zealand: Home of Middle Earth
-Video Blogs
   * Start of Production
   * Location Scouting
   * Shooting Block One
   * Filming in 3-D
   * Location Part 1
   * Location Part 2
   * Stone St. Studios Tour
   * Wrap of Principal Photography
   * Post-production Overview
   *Wellington World Premiere

- Theatrical Trailers
   * Dwarves (Hello Thorin)
   * Letter Opener
   * Bilbo Contract
   * Gandalf Wagers
   * Gollum Path


- Game Trailers
   * The Hobbit: Kingdom of Middle Earth
   *Guardians of Middle Earth
   * Lego The Lord of the Rings



As of yet Amazon does not have a pre-order set for The Hobbit Blue- ray and Blue-ray 3-D. But the covers have been released. My only problem is that Thorin is not prominently displayed on the covers. I guess I should be glad he was even included on one of the covers.

 

Tuchus Tuesdy #3

From Glamour Magazine photoshoot for January 2013 a nice ending to the series.

Richard Armitage World Tour: the North American Leg

  So this is to be the Richard Armitage World Tour: The North American leg which to a certain extent left me feeling kind of flat. But then I guess New Zealand and Japan premieres spoiled me and I was expecting something along those line for the presentation of the premieres here in North America, especially New York which fell more than a bit flat. That might as well have been parents going to see their kids first night performance of 'The Hobbit'. Talk about having the proverbial stick up the butt, but that's just my opinion.

Anyway... HELLO FROM TORONTO!

A still from the Marilyn Denis Show in Toronto on December 3,2012

The interview from the Marilyn Denis Show:

According to Yahoo! News Canada, Richard caused a bit of a stir by showing up early at Toronto's Union Station on December 3,2012.

Then there is the head-cam interview from Toronto's KISS 92.5FM  with Dammit Maurie

Posing on the red carpet in Toronto and using a tie clip. Wonder if he owns a tie stick or tie pin? Just to change things up a bit and it doesn't have to be fancy, maybe just a nice little gold piece.

  Finally from WBToronto on youtube: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Union Station Takeover

  So I do believe that is it from the December 3,2012 Toronto, Canada leg of the Richard Armitage World Tour. Next up New York.

  With New York's premiere being on December 6, 2012 the days leading up to had to be filled in with media stops Martin Freeman was on David Letterman, Sir Ian McKellen was on Live! with Kelly and Michael and Richard got stuck on the fourth hour of the Today Show on December 5 with Hoda and Kathie Lee. Or is it Kathie Lee and Honda? Anyway... Really?! Well, I guess it was better than Richard not being on American television at all.

 Stills from the interview Richard looking like Richard in a black leather jacket and a hoodie. And yes they're the same but it's Richard so it can be double your fun. OMGuyed! What if there were two of him?! Could we even handle that?

Now we come to December 6,2012 and the New York premiere of The Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey. There was no trumpeting of the stars and the movie. It was more like drop them off at the back door and let them fight their way in. Not saying that is how it really was just the given impression. The only video of the premiere that I know of came from a friend of RAFrenzy's iPad and Frenz was nice enough to post it on her blog for the rest of us to see.

Of course there are some nice pics that seemed to take forever to start coming out of The Hobbit premiere. Richard is wearing a Michael Bastian suit to the premiere.

Armitage, Richard Armitage

Marin Freeman, Elijah Wood,Andy Serkis, Sir Peter Jackson, Sir Ian McKellen and our beloved Richard Armitage

Most of The Hobbit cast and directors and writers

I think that should do for this leg of Richard's World Tour and if things on this post seem to be a bit scattered and shky please forgive me, i've been sick all week and pretty much missed everything.

Richard Armitage World Tour: the Pacific-Asian Leg

Big week for Richard Armitage and us fans starting first stop, New Zealand. Hard to believe that was only a week ago because this week seems to have gone by at a very fast pace. First we start with the landing of the Boeing 777 tricked out in The Hobbit theme landing in New Zealand:

Then of course there is going through the airport terminal in Aukland, New Zealnd

Nice and scruffy

Which the cast must have stayed for a little while before heading off to Wellington and the world premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

And more photo ops for the press in Wellington:

Then of course there was the press conference before the premiere but first their had to be the traditional Maori greeting for Richard:

Somewhere in the middle of alll of this Richard, Martin Freeman, Andy Serkis and other cast members  had time to do a little sight seeing.

With the break over it was time ti get down to the business at hand..The world premiere of The Hobbit: an Untold Journey.

Keep thinking that this suit is Lucas North-ish

RA signing autographs for some some lucky fans

Graciously handling the press as he tries to get down the red carpet

Then in front of The Hobbit door that he would eventuelly step through:

After this hoopla, Richard, Martin and Andy were in Australia to present at the ARIA Awards and gave Goyte the Best Pop Release.

So, after all of these events in New Zealand and Australia our man, Richard, & co. were on their way to Japan for the Tokyo premiere of The Hobbit on December 1, 2012.

Here is the Japanese Press Conference videos, parts 1-5, from The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Sad thing is that the press just didn't seem to care to much about Richard because it was forever before someone was nice enough to ask him a question. Now Peter Jackson and Martin Freeman were asked about Richard first and said some wonderfully kind and true things about him.They absolutely gushed over him. Which I guess the Japanese press felt they needed more information about the man from those he worked with. Anyway, in order, the 5 videos of the Japanese Press Conference, courtesy of RACentral on Youtube :

Japanese Press Conference, part 1

Japanese Press Conference, part 2

Japanese Press Conference, part 3

Japanese Press Conference, part 4

Japanese Press Conference, part 5

And the transcript of the press conference can be found here courtesy of a twitter friend of mine.

Also some gifs of Richard at the conference:

 

At least he didn't pick his nose

Then on the night of December !,2012 was the Tokyo premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Richard in, what I have been told,in a waxed wool suit. From a distance it looks like leather, almost like an homage to Guy of Gisborne and his leather outfits. But then it seems Richard wears leather in most of his roles.

Peter Jackson, Richard Armitage,Martin Freeman,Elijah Wood and Andy Serkis at the Japanese premiere.

The introduction of the Japanese premier of The Hobbit on the red carpet is amazing. They are not there and then they are.

Richard signing autographs for Japanes fans:

I hope y'all enjoyed the post. This concludes the Pacific-Asian leg of the Richard Armitage World Tour the North American and English legs of the tour are up next. I'll get that post out as soon as I can.

Which Middle-Earth Character Are You?

Nice little quiz tied into 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. I took the quiz twice and was a Hobbit both times. DRATS! I want to be Galadriel. Oh well.