‘Warcraft’ movie director draws inspiration from ‘Rings’
- 07-Jun-2016
LOS ANGELES: When director Duncan Jones was tasked with translating the popular video game "Warcraft" into a studio film, he was inspired by filmmaker Peter Jackson's adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy saga "Lord of the Rings."
Homo or Flo: Hobbits were real
- 10-Jan-2015
Did you know that there was a subspecies a human known as homo florsiensis which went extinct only 12,000 years ago. They grew no larger than 4 feet tall and have been nicknamed “hobbits” by scientists. (“Flores Man”, nicknamed “hobbit” and “Flo”) is a possible species, now extinct, in the genus Homo. The remains of […]
Final 'Hobbit' film draws holiday season crowds
- 21-Dec-2014
LOS ANGELES/ NEW YORK: The last movie of Peter Jackson's three "Hobbit" films rode to the top of U.S. and Canadian weekend box office charts, selling an estimated $56.2 million worth of tickets and boosting the holiday movie season that is crucial to Hollywood.