Just like we could watch The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey redcarpet premeire live from New Zealand last year, we’ll be able to live stream the second from Los Angeles in less than a week. Warner Bros. will live stream the Monday, December 2 at 6:30pm PT/9:30pm ET world premiere of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The guests confirmed so far are Richard Armitage (Thorin), Martin Freeman (Bilbo), Benedict Cumberbatch (Smaug), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Luke Evans (Bard the Bowman), Stephen Fry (Master of Laketown) and Peter Jackson.
If you have any questions for the cast members, you can tweet using the hashtag #HobbitPremiere or comment here. Some of them will be answered live on the red carpet.

Thanks to Moustache Luke we now have a brand new photoshoot image of Lee Pace. The black and white shot was originally published in the December issue of MaxMovie Magazine.

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Photoshoots > MaxMovie Magazine Photoshoot

Issue 87 of SciFiNow is now out with four exclusive covers for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug. You can choose between Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf the Grey (Sir Ian McKellen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage). Each one has been given a treatment unique to the world their character inhabits, from the creepy Mirkwood of Bilbo to the luxurious gold of Legolas.

Lee Pace fans will most be interested in two articles – The Hobbit and Guardians of the Galaxy. Cats and Books has a nice summary of what we can read inside the magazine.

The Hobbit spread includes interviews with Martin Freeman (Bilbo), Lee Pace (Thranduil), Richard Armitage (Thorin), Orlando Bloom (Legolas) and Luke Evans (Bard the Bowman). Armitage says Thorin gives Thranduil a piece of his mind: “When the dragon came and they needed help, the elves didn’t intervene — for very good reason actually, but at the time it felt like a huge betrayal, and that’s a burning anger in him. He gets to stand in front of Thranduil and tell him what he thinks of him.” As we know, Thranduil counters by locking the dwarves up in his prison. Pace explained Thranduil’s motivation for standing in their way: “These 13 dwarves come through my woods; I’m not going to let them go wake up a dragon. It’s like, ‘No, kids, we’re going to keep you here!’ You don’t wake up a dragon unless you know how to kill it, and they don’t.” He has a point. So he’s locking them up for their own good, the impetuous dwarves!

Bloom says the Mirkwood elves aren’t as cuddly as the ones who live in Elrond’s Rivendell: “Legolas was always different from the Rivendell elves, so Legolas comes in and he’s a bit more… I don’t know, he’s got a bit more of an edge. and I think Thranduil has an edge. They’re not messing around.” If you’ve seen the clip from MTV’s European Music Awards you know Bloom isn’t kidding (if you haven’t seen the clip go to this post from TheOneRing.net).

The magazine also has an article on Guardians of the Galaxy. Photos are ones we’ve seen before, so nothing new there. Michael Rooker (Yondu) and Lee Pace (Ronan the Accuser) are interviewed. After playing the cool and regal Elvenking Thranduil in The Hobbit, Pace was in for something entirely different when he stepped onto the set of Guardians. In the interview he said: “‘Very un-elfy, right guys?’ He’s a real psychopathic beast. I’m having the best time playing it.” – and – “I kept looking over at [director] James Gunn when we were shooting. ‘Too much? Should I pull it back?’ He’s like ‘No, more, go for it!’” Subtlety is not Gunn’s strong point.

Guardians will apparently also be colorful, literally. Both Yondu and Ronan are blue in the film. Rooker apparently liked it, because he said: “The blue is simple, it’s beautiful. The colours that we use in Guardians are just exquisite. When everything is put together — when you have wardrobe on and the lighting’s going — man oh man it’s beautiful, it’s going to look fabulous.” That sounds almost poetic, and then you realize he’s talking about the skin color of some badass aliens.

Full article here.

You can grab your copy of the magazine here.

Update on December 1, 2013:
Thanks to my friend Marieke I now added SciFiNow magazine scans to our gallery.

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Magazine Scans > SciFiNow Issue 87 (2013) – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Magazine Scans > SciFiNow Issue 87 (2013) – Guardians of the Galaxy

Entertainment Weekly has a new collection of images from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, featuring the likes of Martin Freeman’s Bilbo Baggins, Ian McKellen’s Gandalf the Grey, Orlando Bloom’s Legolas, John Bell’s Bain, Richard Armitage’s Thorin, Stephen Fry’s Master of Lake-town, Lee Pace’s Thranduil and more.

Click here to view more of them.

Lee Pace has been confirmed to join Stephen Frears’ still-untitled Lance Armstrong biopic, The Wrap reports. The currently shooting film stars Ben Foster in the main role, while Chris O’Dowd portrays the journalist David Walsh, who wrote Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong, the book this film is going to be based on. We also know that Jesse Plemons and Guillaume Canet have supporting roles, while Lee’s role remains under the wraps.
The official synopsis can be read bellow.

The film charts the thrilling rise of pro-cyclist Lance Armstrong through the 90s and early 2000s, battling cancer, as he and his fellow American teammates dominate and change the quintessentially European sport of cycling. Winning the Tour de France an unprecedented seven times, Lance retires as one of the great sporting heroes of our time, and worth millions of dollars. David Walsh, sports writer, is at first charmed by Lance’s charisma and talent. Seven Tours later, and ostracised by the cycling community for speaking out, he believes the world is being sold a lie. A lone voice, it is several years before Lance is exposed.

The shooting will take place in France and the UK.

Hello everyone!
How are you all doing? As you might have noticed, there were no updates posted for the last two weeks. I was travelling for a week and got busy studying the second one, but I’m finally here to fully update the website. Som really exciting news to share!
As previously promised, I also started working on The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug photos, and screencapping these few movies we don’t have photos from yet.
Stay tuned.

New art featuring the whole cast presents scenes from upcoming Peter Jackson film. Absolutely stunning. You can take a closer look at it here.

Here’s the best part: The Hobbit team made it very easy for you to use any of these scenes as your facebook cover photo, avatar or deskop background. All you have to do is to visit their website and follow the steps.

I am right now in process of adding all Desolation of Smaug photos to our gallery. Thanks for being so patient.

We have two new videos from the event. Both of them first show the place where the event was help on November 4, and then offer us a look at Lee Pace, Andy Serkis and Luke Evans posing for press. After we see all three cast members of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug answer a question.

In the first video, Lee introduces his character, Thranduil. He starts talking at 2:10.

In the second video, he talks about the fan art his father sends him. The interview starts at 01:20.

Six high quality and two medium quality images of Lee Pace at The Hobbit Fan Event in London have been added to the gallery. Thanks to Mari for some of them!

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Appearances > 2013 > The Hobbit Fan Event in London – November 4, 2013

Bellow, you can watch the recorded version of a livestream The Hobbit events could watch yesterday. The celebration was happening at four cities worldwide at the same time – Wellington, Los Angeles, New York and London (that’s where Lee was), and fans could watch the event live on youtube.

Here are some of the highlights if you don’t have an hour to watch the entire video:
• New sneak peek has been released! Click here to watch it.
• Lee and Orlando both showed some nice dance moves. Check them out here.
• Peter Jackson’s production blog video includes some funny scenes with Lee. Watch it here.
• ashwin911 was a part of the audience in London and kindly shared a short video recorded in theatre. You should give it a look.

Also, Ed Sheeran’s I See Fire video was shown at the event. The song was written for the closing credits of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. “We have a tradition in our Tolkien films of having a song over the closing credits. It’s very important that the song feels right for the world of the movie – and also carries the emotional resonance of the end of that particular film,” Peter commented. Ed wrote the song right after watching the movie, so he could write from the perspective of the audience. You can pre-order it on iTunes.