A piece by Eric Snider details how MGM’s financial woes are delaying the production of the Peter Jackson produced Benicio Del Toro directed Hobbit movie. Jackson wrote the script and commented during the Lovely Bones release interviews it was finished. Fans await casting for Bilbo.

The London (UK) Telegraph interview Sir Peter Jackson, The New Zealand MFP. With a wealth of about $450 personal millions, Jackson has been busy. He says he may stop by the Hobbit to throw his hand in. He’s been making his Lovely Bones, to varied reviews. Jackson says he turned down having the nearby Wellington airport named after him, for fear his children would be traumatized walking through an airport named for their father.

Want a killer marathon of all your favorite LOTR films? If you happen to have all day Next Saturday, look no farther than Santa Monica for the ultimate movie experience, all 3 Jackson films in one day. Bring your lembas! The screenings for LOTR trifecta happen at the Aero theater at 1328 Montana Avenue at 14th Street in Santa Monica, CA.

In the film LOTR series Jonathan Rhys-Davies was Gimli, Gloin’s son. But the character of Gloin for the Hobbit prequels won’t be played by the British actor. (from empire.uk)

Hobbit films direcotr Benicio Del Toro describes how the first Hobbit film will be the Hobbit book sotry, but the second film will be a ramp up to the LOTR film series imitative of Jackson’s shooting style, making a seamless nod to the LOTR trilogy fr a five film symphony.

“We were frankly amazed the footage was so well received.Jackson admitted he and his fellow filmmakers felt an enormous amount of pressure making LOTR because the studio, New Line, was in precarious financial shape and betting nearly $300 million on his movies ”

“The Lovely Bones” would seem to be an examination of how much more powerful/all seeing the Susie character might or might not be after death. Omniscience is a Jackson theme. Does Susie see that someone else’s number is up? That “The Lovely Bones” is a cathartic reworking of “the Frighteners” can’t only have occurred to me. The resonances are too strong.

Experiencing both sides of the equation is a Gandalf role. “King Kong”’s Anne must experience both the knowledge of Kong’s beauty, worth and the emotional connection to him, while knowing his freakish monstrosity must be extinguished for safety. Despite his charm and intelligence, he will fall under the onslaught of the inevitable human inhumanity to the animal world. It’s the horrible knowledge that Kong is beautiful but must and will die that brings the movie close to us.

On the theme of being more powerful after death, we move to the Obi-Wan Kenobi maelstrom of character development. Michael J. Fox is more powerful after death. Ann is more powerful after her ceremonial “death” offering to Kong. Indeed, the death of her character as it was powerfully occurs during the events on the island. Her attempt at the end of the film to demur to an ‘off-Broadway” existence is simply a mask.