New 'Hobbit' Photos Reveal Stunning Nz Set

by Rachel Molino Healing For Healing For Peter Jackson remains great about granting fans a Middle Earth-sized take a look at production on "The Hobbit." Not only gets the director composed four comprehensive and highly entertaining video production journals for viewing via his Facebook page, but he's setup some nerd journalists with complete production-length around duty sprawling the forever eco-friendly Nz set. Ain't It Cool's Quint has presented his fourth and fifth reviews within the number of "The Hobbit," where cast and crew crawl in a single misty eco-friendly gully to a different inside the fashion in the motley team of misshaped outdoorsmen they portray. Departing what's formally become Hobbiton, the crew moved lower New Zealand's North Island with a popular rock-climbing place set to represent Trollshaw, where Bilbo, the dwarves (we now have seen all 13) and Gandalf face the Stone Trolls and pilfer their collected dying trophies. Among people pilfered trophies found is Sting the little Elfin sword imparted to Bilbo by Gandalf and lastly written by Bilbo to Frodo in "Master in the Rings." Quint also catches one minute with Steven Hunter, who plays one particularly identifiable dwarf, Bombur, on his off time. See him below: In the fifth set report from same position comes a tense moment between Gandalf and Dwarf leader Thorin. Gandalf wants Thorin to locate council from Elrond at Rivendell before beginning around the mission. Thorin bears bitterness against elves for age-old infraction he thinks the race has committed against dwarves, but eventually relents. Reveal everything you consider the newest "Hobbit" update inside the comments section and also on Twitter!

Kardashian Christmas Special Reports Are 'Completely False,' Says E! Rep

Paramount CEO Brad Grey has purchased a four-bedroom condominium at the Carlyle Hotel in NY for $15.5 million. The off-market transaction closed Nov. 17.our editor recommendsParamount's Brad Grey Lists Former Frank Sinatra Home for SaleParamounts Brad Grey Buys Frank Sinatras Home for $18.5 Million The 35-story tower at 35 East 76th St. includes hotel rooms and about 60 residential units. It is owned by Dallas-based Rosewood Hotels & Resorts. PHOTOS: Hollywood's Biggest Real Estate Deals of the Week Grey purchased the 3,000-square-foot unit, which takes up the Carlyle's entire 26th floor, from asset manager Peter M. Schoenfeld, who had bought the condominium in 2007 for just under $6.5 million. Schoenfeld runs NY-based P. Schoenfeld Asset Management. Grey's new residence also includes a library and was recently renovated. Owners of the Carlyle's residential units have access to the hotel's amenities, include maid- and room-service. In the last decade of his life, President John F. Kennedy owned a residence in the hotel, earning it the "NY White House" nickname. The hotel opened in 1930. The Paramount topper, whose main residence is in Bel-Air, has been busy on the real estate front: In September he listed for sale the Holmby Hills estate he purchased in November 2010. The North Carolwood Drive property was once owned by Frank Sinatra; Grey purchased the seven-bedroom house for $18.5 million and has listed it for $23.5 million. The Carolwood residence is situated on 2.3 acres in a prime neighborhood that is also home toDanny DeVitoandRhea Perlman, philanthropistSuzanne Saperstein, and television producerBradley Bell, son ofThe Young and the RestlessandThe Bold and the BeautifulcreatorWilliam Bell. Schoenfeld was represented by Kathy Sloane of residential real estate brokerage Brown Harris Stevens. Grey did not use a real estate agent for the transaction. Sloane did not immediately respond to e-mails seeking comment. Email: Daniel.Miller@THR.com Twitter: @DanielNMiller PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Hollywood's Biggest Real Estate Deals of the Week: Hilary Swank, Chris Brown, Ronni Chasen Related Topics Brad Grey Paramount Pictures

Ratings: Dancing Finale Down Sharply

Dancing With The Stars Dancing with the Stars determined the winner of its Mirrorball trophy to an audience of 19.45 million, but its 4.1 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds, down some 20 percent from a year ago, was its lowest-rated fall finale of all time, according to Nielsen overnights. Read our Dancing with the Stars finale recap A year ago, when Jennifer Grey won, the two-hour finale averaged 24.1 million viewers and 5.3 demo rating. Check out the rest of the day's news on TVGuide.com 8 p.m.CBS: NCIS 18.45 million viewers (3.5 demo rating)ABC: Last Man Standing 9.33 million (2.7); Man Up! 6.79 million (1.9)Fox: The X Factor 9.34 million (3.2) {8-10 p.m.}NBC: The Biggest Loser 5.56 million (2.0) {8-10 p.m.}CW: 90210 1.25 million (0.6) 9 p.m.CBS: NCIS: Los Angeles 14.03 million viewers (3.0 demo rating)ABC: Dancing with the Stars 19.45 million (4.1) {9-11 p.m.}CW: Heart of Dixie (rerun) 944,000 (0.4) 10 p.m.CBS: Unforgettable 10.33 million viewers (2.2 demo rating)NBC: Parenthood 4.54 million (0.9)

Brett Leonard To Write Comedy Project Taxi-22 For HBO And James Gandolfini

EXCLUSIVE: Hung writer-producer Brett C. Leonard has been tapped to write a new script for Taxi-22, HBO’s adaptation of the hit French Canadian series, which is being produced by James Gandolfini’s Attaboy Prods. Taxi-22, developed as a potential starring vehicle for Gandolfini, centers on a politically incorrect cab driver in NYC struggling to keep his life together. Gandolfini, Leonard, Dennis Erdman, Clark Peterson, Nancy Sanders and Mark Armstrong are executive producing. Leonard is the third writer assigned with adapting the French Canadian original created by Patrick Huard and Francois Flamand and starring Huard. He succeeds Kenneth Lonergan and Dave Flebotte who wrote previous versions. Writer-playwright Leonard, repped by UTA, serves as producer on HBO’s dark comedy Hung. His play The Long Red Road was recently staged at Chicago’s Owen Theatre with Philip Seymour Hoffman directing. Gandolfini is with CAA.

Kimberly McCullough Leaving General Hospital

Kimberly McCullough Kimberly McCullough is leaving General Hospital, Soap Opera Digest reports.The actress, who plays Robin Scorpio, will exit the soap early next year to pursue directing. Fans can expect a "poignant and must-watch" story line for Robin and husband Patrick (Jason Thompson), a show rep said. Exclusive: Jonathan Jackson discusses his shocking exit from General HospitalThe news comes a week after Jonathan Jackson (Lucky) announced he will leave General Hospital next month.McCullough originated the role of Robin in 1985 when she was 7. She left the show in 1996 and made periodic guest appearances before rejoining full time in 2005. She has won two Daytime Emmys for her work.Will you miss McCullough?

Jobs: The Lost Interview

A Really Indie/Nerd TV/Furnace/John Gau Prods. presentation. Created by Gau, Paul Sen.Executive producers, Robert X. Cringely, Ted Mundorff. Directed by Paul Sen. Compiled by Robert X. Cringely.With: Jobs. Narrator: Robert X. Cringely.Retrieved soon after Steve Jobs' untimely dying, the mogul's longest TV interview seems in unexpurgated form within this 69-minute docu. Showing up relaxed, confident and expansive, Jobs is observed in just one fixed-camera shot inside a Redwood City TV studio in 1995, reflecting on his personal curiosity about the pc, the birth of Apple, his bitter clash with Apple Boss John Sculley, and the then-latest venture, Next. Landmark Theaters' limited countrywide release is perfectly timed towards the global passion for Jobs, whose fans will hold on every word. Jobs enlisted being an interview subject for that tube series "Triumph from the Brainiacs," located by author-interviewer Robert X. Cringely, who describes the context from the conversation inside a brief prelude. Excerpts were incorporated within the broadcast show, however the complete interview was considered to happen to be lost on the road within the late 1990's. Based on Cringely, the show's director, Paul Sen, lately found the tape that contains the 67-minute interview for that reasons of narrative flow within this theatrical presentation, the frame frequently freezes while Cringely's oddly echo-y voice-over narration creates the theme from the following segment. At 40, with an outlook of watching Apple from afar (he'd been kicked from the organization by Sculley ten years prior coupled with subsequently founded Next), Jobs has the capacity to bring a perspective he could not have given in a more youthful age. Furthermore, this p.o.v. wouldn't happen to be possible right after the job interview, since Jobs offered Alongside Apple six several weeks later and grew to become Apple Boss annually next. Thus, he's in a position to say here that "Apple is dying," and explain why: As the Macs computer, that they essentially produced, had once been ten years in front of the PC along with other competition, that advantage had dissolved with time because "the knowledge of how you can create new items evaporated," and Apple's wasted R&D money was seriously draining corporate coffers. This observation bears considerable emergency for Apple's future symptom in the present. The docu getting proven that the Jobs-less Apple could get behind and lose its creative momentum, an apparent real question is sure to linger in viewers' minds. With visible excitement and pleased nostalgia, Jobs recalls his sighting from the world's first pc at Hewlett-Packard's HQ in then-nascent Plastic Valley, and just how he and tech buddy Steve Wozniak devised the "Blue Box," which permitted phone callers to create lengthy-distance telephone calls free of charge. The pair's development of the very first Apple computer is really a well-known tale, and can prove a fantastic business story for more youthful audiences. As anybody whatever person heard him speak knows, Jobs was extremely articulate and focused in the reactions to questions, while generally framework these questions personal context. This really is summarized by his review of the building of the sublime Apple II computer, the merchandise of Wozniak's ambition to feature color graphics and Jobs' need to produce the very first packed computer with intact hardware. He's just like direct, and blunter, in the description of methods Sculley "methodically destroyed" the values of Apple. Within the interview's closing section (and echoed by Walter Isaacson's new Jobs biography), Jobs stresses that Apple was fashioned from the liberal-arts perspective, by which "everything comes lower to taste," something he sees constant rival Microsoft as absolutely missing. Ultimately the docu shows Jobs, of course, in front of his time: Very interested in the web, whose social impact in 1995 ended up being barely being felt, the mogul properly forecasts the net would be the "determining technology and social element" for the future.Digital camera (color, video), John Booth, Clayton Moore editor, Nic Stacey seem, Gene Koon re-recording mixer, Greg Gettens. Examined online, Montreal, November. 16, 2011. Running time: 69 MIN. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

NBC Orders Additional Scripts for 'Grimm'

"Grimm" Numerous additional scripts are actually bought for NBC's rookie Friday drama Grimm.our editor recommendsNBC Sets Midseason Schedule, Moves 'Whitney,' 'Up With The Evening,' More After beginning strong in the competitive genre-laden time slot, the storyline book procedural has since shipped inside the ratings, nevertheless the hourlong has handled to top the 9 p.m. hour inside the internet marketer-coveted demo for a lot of days. Due to its latest episode, Grimm averaged 5.2 million audiences together with single.6 rating in grownups 18-49. David Giuntoli, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz and Russell Hornsby co-star. Grimm concentrates on Tigard detective Nick Burkhardt (Giuntoli), who discovers he's a descendant from the kind of criminal profiles known to as Grimms, responsible for keeping the quantity between humanity as well as the mythological creatures. What is the news comes days after NBC set its midseason schedule, which saw third-year comedy Community benched as well as the fighting Prime Suspect reboot -- that have received an order for six additional scripts in October -- dropped. On Tuesday, it absolutely was states NBC will shut lower production on Prime Suspect following its thirteenth episode. Grimm, however, continues in the present home. NBC Grimm