‘Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ To Premiere In New Zealand On Nov. 28

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• That’s a dangerous strategy: that allows 2 weeks for the news to spread around the world about how bad 48 frames per second looks.

  Comment by Wicked — Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 6:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Out of respect for the man who created the work that’s made Jackson a very wealthy man, does it not occur to anyone that premiering one of these films in England (or even South Africa where Tolkien was born) would be a nice homage? We get it. They’re filmed in New Zealand. Been there, love it, beautiful country; but come on, let at lease of of them premiere somewhere else.

  Comment by Jimmy — Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 6:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Ok. Why would 48fps look any different than 24fps? He is shooting it in 3D which means when the film is processed for final delivery, every frame is isolated for each eye so each eye will still be sing 24fps. Since people have 2 eyes, you double up the fps. Meaning you’ll have much more detail on screen. How can that be a bad thing?

  Comment by Salvador — Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 9:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • There’s a simple and obvious answer to your question: NOT EVERYONE WILL SEE IT IN 3-D!

    Comment by Wicked — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 3:45am PDT  Reply to this post

  • It does look different; it’s designed to eliminate the motion blur of 3D. And early footage responses say 48fps is strange to watch.

    Seems like they want to get a couple of weeks previews just in case there’s a bad reaction to the new look and need to tweak the movie.

    Comment by max — Wednesday June 6, 2012 @ 8:39am PDT  Reply to this post