Dec 17, 2012 | Forbes
In a previous article, I listed some of the less-than-stellar things to happen to the world of gaming in 2012. After all, it’s not every industry that releases a dancing game where Darth Vader does a move called “the trash compactor.” But as a glass-half-full kind of...
Dec 17, 2012 | Forbes
As Boromir (Sean Bean) erroneously mentioned in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, “One does not simply walk into Mordor.” He was not only proven wrong by Frodo and Sam (In your face, man. In. Your. Face), but also he created an Internet meme that was...
Dec 14, 2012 | Forbes
Making The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey was an expensive undertaking, what paying actors, building sets, and transporting the crew there and back again. According to Wikipedia, the first film in the future trilogy had a budget of $150 million. That’s a lot of cash....
Dec 14, 2012 | Forbes
Ever since 2001, many of us have come to recognize New Zealand as “the place where Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, was filmed.” Now even more people know it as “the place where I took my vacation.” According to the general manager of Western long haul markets for...
Dec 13, 2012 | Forbes
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in a series of three films by director Peter Jackson, is almost three hours long. I know this, because when the credits rolled, I noticed my bladder was screaming. But I didn’t realize it before then, because for two hours...
Dec 12, 2012 | Forbes
Brown hair. Freaky. Emilia Clarke, the charismatic Game of Thrones actress who plays Daenerys Targaryen, the khaleesi who would be queen, recently made a guest appearance on The Jimmy Kimmel Show. Clarke didn’t spoil any happenings about the show—to be fair, you have...
