This morning, as the first Air New Zealand flight for the day took off for the skies, its passengers were treated to a brand new safety briefing video – An Unexpected Briefing – inspired by the upcoming fantasy adventure The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, a production of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) The video is written by Weta’s […]
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Peter Jackson and Air New Zealand Create a Hobbit Safety Briefing Video
October 31st, 2012 
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Check Out the World’s Biggest GOLLUM at the Wellington Airport in New Zealand!!!
October 31st, 2012 Steve Czarnecki As the home of the phenomenal The Lord of the Rings franchise and in anticipation of the upcoming The Hobbit release this December, a 42 foot long Gollum now has found a home at the Wellington Airport in New Zealand. The sculpture, which is suspended from the roof, shows the emaciated physique and momentary expression of […]
First Look at One of Three New Posters for Disney’s OZ: The Great and Powerful
October 31st, 2012 David Chase Nothing more appropriate than a witch on Halloween and none more famous than a wicked witch from the land of OZ for this holiday! Disney’s “Oz The Great and Powerful” hit theaters next March (8th), but today, thanks to Yahoo! Movies, we get a sneak peek at One of a Three part payoff poster for the […]
LOCATION, LOCATION, Location? – A Monster-ous Exclusive! #6 ~ Monster Squad
October 31st, 2012 Kevin Stern A Monster-ous Exclusive! It’s that time of year again when late night movies on TV tend to turn to the monster-ous side of things and we here at Beyond the Marquee have an exclusive location treat for you. Back in the 80’s, when kids lives typically revolved around repeated viewings of their favorite films on VHS, […]
Tags: Beyond the Marquee: The Web Series (Eps.33) Charles Band on Halloween
October 31st, 2012 Beyond the Marquee On our last webisode we spoke to with Horror Movie Producer Charles Band of Full Moon Features about the history of the company that has made classic horror films such as the Puppet Master franchise, the Killjoy and Subspecies series, Ghoulies and the cult classic Re-Animator. Beyond the Marquee host and Horror genre fan Jon […]
LOCATION, LOCATION, Location? #5 – Revealed ~ Breakdown
October 31st, 2012 Kevin Stern Did ‘ya Guess It? Our fifth Location, Location, Location? left a few Beyond the Marquee readers guessing … something it also did to Kurt Russell back in 1997.
George Lucas, Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy discuss the future of Star Wars movies
October 30th, 2012 Beyond the Marquee With the latest announcement of the Walt Disney Company acquiring Lucasfilm Ltd, the global entertainment company founded by George Lucas and the home of the legendary “Star Wars” franchise, one may wonder what the hell was Geoorge Lucas was thinking? Well in this video posted today at Star Wars.com, George Lucas and Kathleen Kennedy discuss the […]
