“The Hobbit” 1st TV spot released (video)  October 24, 2012 - 16:46 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - The first TV spot for The Hobbit has been unveiled, NME reported. The 35-second teaser features several snippets of previously unseen footage, including the first glimpse of Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the Company of Dwarves. The promotional campaign for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy is building up speed as the first film approaches. Subtitled An Unexpected Journey, it gets its worldwide premiere in Wellington, New Zealand on November 28. To celebrate the film's release, a series of The Hobbit commemorative coins are to become legal tender in New Zealand. Last week (October 17), the first picture of Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins was released, alongside new photos of Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and Ian McKellen as Gandalf. The trilogy's cast also includes Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett and Orlando Bloom, while US comedian Stephen Colbert is rumoured to make a cameo in one of the films. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will open in UK cinemas on December 14 2012. Jackson's second film, The Desolation Of Smaug, will follow in December 2013, before the trilogy concludes with There And Back Again in July 2014.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Russia provides info about arrested Armenian ex-MP  Russian law enforcement agencies have provided information about the arrest of Tigran Urikhanyan.Lemkin Institue slams Pashinyan's “cryptic engagement with Genocide denial” The Lemkin Institute is alarmed over Pashinyan’s statements “questioning Armenia's legal basis to pursue justice against Turkey”.41 detained as antigovernment protests continue in Yerevan 41 people were detained in Yerevan as people demanding Pashinian’s resignation stage campaigns of civil disobedience.Armenia votes for UN resolution granting Palestine new rights The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on May 10 to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine. |
