It’s Official: GUILLERMO DEL TORO Will Direct THE HOBBIT and Sequel
April 25, 2008
Source: Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_en_mo/film_hobbit_del_toro
Guillermo del Toro is directing “The Hobbit” and its sequel, New Line Cinema announced Thursday. The 43-year-old filmmaker will move to New Zealand for four years to make the films back-to-back with executive producer Peter Jackson.
Del Toro wrote and directed “Pan’s Labyrinth,” which earned six Oscar nominations in 2006 and won three awards.
Read more HERE.
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Release date(s):
W: 2010-12-01
P: TBA – I think it will be 2012…
‘El Orfanato’
Release date:
W: 2007-05-20
P: 2008-05-09
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Release date(s):
W: 2008-07-10
P: 2008-09-05
(OMG only two months LOL)
I’m very excited about that movie, and I think it will be a good one.
Thanks for that. El Orfanato is amazing.
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