Middle-earth News has a good premiere roundup as well.
In order of date, the following things are planned:
December 2-3 : Official Release (Los Angeles, USA)
- Livestreamed to Wellington, starting at 3:30pm, December 3rd (NZ Time)
- URL for the livestream is on the official Hobbit Movie Facebook page.
- Check time in your own country here.
December 4-5 : Live Google Hangout with Peter Jackson (Online)
- Livestreamed to Wellington, starting at 7:15am, December 5th (NZ Time)
- URL for the livestream is on the Hobbit's Google+ page
- Check time in your own country here.
December 9th : Marine Education Centre Charity Gala (Embassy Cinema)
- URL for more details at the Embassy Cinema website
- Doors open at 6:00pm
- Doors close at 7:00pm
- Movie starts at 7:15pm
- As of right now (9:00pm, 28/Nov), there are still tickets available for this.
December 10 : Special (alleged) screening for the crew
- Heard this one on the grapevine. I don't know anything official about this, but I'm really pleased to see that the actual people who made the movie get to see it nice and early too.
- As far as I know it's invite only, and crew only as well.
- Don't bother asking, you won't get in. :)
December 11 : Special Preview (Reading, Courtenay Central)
- Competition winners only, I believe
- Movie starts at 6:15pm
December 11 : (hopefully) Screening of Hobbit 1 ??? (Embassy Cinema)
- We're still in talks with the Embassy about this one. Hopefully we can watch part one from, say, 8:00pm, ahead of the midnight session at midnight
December 11 : Costume Party at the Roxy Cinema
- This one is organised by Red Carpet Tours
- Movie starts at midnight - I assume this is actually 12:01am, so technically the 12th of December
- Tickets are sold out, but the details are here.
December 12 : Midnight Session (first public screening)
- Movie starts at one minute past midnight - 12/12/13, at 12:01am
- This is the first "proper" public screening of The Hobbit, and will mark the start of the Box Office (I think). Due to the fortunate layout of the International Date Line, New Zealand STILL gets to see this before anyone else.
- As far as I can tell there's satill tickets available for this one as well.
- Check the Embassy website for more details.
December 13th : LifeFlight Charity Event (Embassy Cinema)
- Event starts at 5:15pm
- Movie starts at 6:05pm
- Will be attended by William Kircher (Bifur) and Joe Letteri (Weta Digital head FX wizard)
- UPDATE - Tickets are now sold out
- More details (if you already have tickets) are available on the LifeFlight website
Apart from this plethora(*) of special screenings, I know there's also a large number of Laketown Extras attending one of the sessions on December the 14th, and will have a communal picnic somewhere the next day (15th). Don't know when, don't know where. I'm not invited (though Alex (my wife) is, but she's not telling me).
If anything changes I'll keep this page updated, so keep checking back for more info!
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(*) you thought I'd forgotten.
Billy Boyd and Dominic Monaghan are in Wellington they were just seen today buying tickets at Reading Cinemas??
ReplyDeleteAh, I'd heard they were in town. Apparently there was a party at the in Cuba Mall over the weekend. I understand Dominic is doing an episode of his TV show "Wild Things", and this one's set in NZ, and he got his old buddy Billy along for an episode.
DeleteI don't suppose they were buying a ticket to go see Hobbit 2, were they? :)
("at the Matterhorn", that should have read)
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