Elijah Wood talks The Hobbit

Using the discharge of The Hobbit just below 11 several weeks away, Elijah Wood continues to be talking about precisely how nostalgic it had been to step in time for you to film more moments within the familiar places of Middle-earth."It had been a present to return and return," Wood told Collider. "I had been in Hobbiton again, the very first time in 11 years. I switched 19 in Hobbiton. I am 30 now. That put several things into perspective. It had been beautiful. It had been just beautiful to return.Inch "I had been there for any month, and quite a few of time only agreed to be likely to set every single day and meeting many of the new cast people, making up ground with old buddies, and finding yourself in Wellington again. It feels as though home, and individuals people seem like relatives in my experience. It had been this type of treat to return. It had been awesome!"Wood continues to go over how everything has transformed when it comes to we've got the technology open to Jackson and the crew, explaining the way the new three dimensional cameras permit them to tweak things around the hoof."This is an odd feeling of just tuning into [the three dimensional] and accepting it, but it is totally amazing," states Wood. "And, it is awesome to determine the three dimensional on set, and to be aware what the pictures ultimately seem like. We've got the technology is really good now. I recall, a long time and years back, video assist really was rudimentary and watching playback am rudimentary.""Now, since the Hobbit has been shot electronically, we are visiting a full HD image, in three dimensional, virtually just as it is going to look when it is tossed up onto a giant screen. That's amazing! And, it requires many of the uncertainty from it. They are able to perform a large amount of the fine-tuning at the time, that is really awesome."The Hobbit: An Unpredicted Journey opens within the United kingdom on 14 December 2012. Start counting lower the times...

The Vampire Diaries Casts Smallville's Cassidy Freeman

Cassidy Freeman Cassidy Freeman is returning to The CW. The Smallville alum has booked a guest-spot on The Vampire Diaries, TVGuide.com has confirmed. Freeman, who portrayed sometimes villain Tess Mercer on the recently ended super series, will play Vampire Diaries' Sage, a character seen in 1920s flashbacks. Her allure is felt by both the Salvatore brothers and the Original family. Vampire Diaries Postmortem: How will Klaus retaliate? A Klaus-Caroline pairing? Freeman next appears in A&E's new series Longmire. She'll make her Vampire Diaries debut in Episode 16, and she has the potential to recur. TVLine.com first reported the news. The Vampire Diaries airs Thursdays at 8/7c on The CW.

Pair nab privileges to V.C. Andrews library

'Family Storms'Dan Angel ("Door-to-doorInch) from the Hatchery has bought privileges towards the V.C. Andrews library and teamed with Jane Startz ("Ella Enchanted") to build up and convey movies, TV series and telepics according to Andrews' works.Angel and Startz introduced the partnership Friday. You will find presently 70 Andrews books, released in 1979 with "Flowers within the Loft," with worldwide sales well over 106 million copies in 95 nations in 26 languages in tales mixing aspects of Medieval horror and family secrets. Andrew Neiderman, who's composed 44 books under their own title, continues to be the freelancer of Andrews' books since her dying in 1986.The most recent addition is "Family Storms" and it is follow up "Cloudburst," launched within the fall. Paranormal love story "In To The Darkness" is going to be released in March and "The Forbidden Sister is going to be released within the fall 2012, then its follow up "Roxy's Story.""V.C. Andrews is really a significant cultural icon and it has been during the last 30 years,Inch Startz stated. "Her collected works really are a treasure chest of genres -- romance, medieval, paranormal -- with highly original and frequently outr tales which have enormous multigenerational and multicultural appeal." Angel's credits include "The Haunting Hour," "Serta Versus." and "Gifted Hands." Startz created "The Indian within the Cupboard," "The Mighty" and "Tuck Everlasting."Simon & Schuster United kingdom, lengthy-term marketers of V.C. Andrews, stated inside a statement, "We're delighted that Virginia Andrews will discover a new audience through this exciting collaboration using the Hatchery and Jane Startz Prods., using this global brand to increased levels."In 2007, the Hatchery and Jaffe/Braunstein introduced intends to create a miniseries for Lifetime in line with the Andrews' "The Landry" however the project did not get together. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com