The Hobbit!

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey crossed $700 mil. worldwide! Please, please, let it cross $1 bil. before it runs its course, just so the haters finally shut up!

Also, I loved what Deadline wrote about Bilbo, how Peter Jackson's take on the character differed from Guillermo Del Toro's:

“It shifted and changed into someone who, rather than being slightly younger and more innocent in the world, once had a sense of longing for adventure and has lost it and become fussy and fusty,” she says.

That led Jackson to Freeman. “We needed a dramatic actor because it is ultimately a dramatic role, but Bilbo Baggins is a much funnier character than Frodo was,” says Jackson. “There’s very few dramatic actors who can do comedy very well, but Martin seemed to possess the perfect qualities.”

I'm really glad that they didn't go the "young and innocent" route, that would've been way too similar to Frodo. I love this Bilbo, kind and courageous but also "fussy and fusty", as they say :)

Also, this bit was interesting, Andy Serkis talking about how they had filmed the Riddles in the Dark scene:

“We played that scene out in its entirety every time we shot it, and it’s a 13-minute scene,” says Serkis. “It’s like a theater piece really, and we just explored it and mined it for everything that it was worth, and Peter shot it from lots of different angles.”

Wow, every time in its entirety? That's admirable.

I'm sorry I cannot link to the article directly, if I did, LJ would not allow me to post this entry because they consider everything that links back to Deadline.com spam.