Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The musical score for The Desolation of Smaug was composed and conducted by Howard Shore in association with local New Zealand writing teams. It was performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. The original motion picture soundtrack album was released on 10 December 2013. It received positive reviews, especially for its new themes.
Jogai Bhatt, in his review for Radio New Zealand, stated "Composer Stephen Gallagher brings his A-game, composing a swelling and epic score on par with Howard Shore's, even reprising the Riders of Rohan theme as a nod to Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." [21] Maya Phillips of The New York Times mentioned that Gallagher's "unforgettable music ...
The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012 "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2013 "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Long before Peter Jackson took a swing at “The Lord of the Rings,” audiences got a glimpse into the fantasy realm of J.R.R. Tolkien via a trio of late-’70s animated projects: two animated TV ...
He considered helming a Hobbit film and a Lord of the Rings prequel film in 2006, [127] before deciding to produce two films based on The Hobbit for a director of his choosing. New Line suggested Sam Raimi to direct, but in 2008, Guillermo Del Toro was chosen to direct a two-film adaptation, produced by Jackson and co-written with Walsh ...
Greenspun was a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and in the mid-1970s served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival.A graduate of Yale (B.A., 1951; M.A., 1958) and an instructor in English at Connecticut College from 1959 to 1962, he "began writing about film early in the Sixties, partly as a way of avoiding my Ph.D. dissertation, partly as a way of thinking about ...
On 16 December 2007, New Line and MGM announced that Jackson would be executive producer of The Hobbit and its sequel. The two studios would co-finance the film and the latter studio (via 20th Century Fox ) would distribute the film outside North America—New Line's first-ever such deal with another major studio. [ 20 ]