Club Jade

IndianaJones.com posts another behind-the-scenes video, this time focusing on the original iconic Hat. TheRaider.net also has a scan of a new photo featuring Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett.

• Hobbit: Del Toro still in negotations.

• Bond: Quantum of Solace teaser poster and 22 other things we know about next film.
• Lessons learned: Gore Verbinski won’t take on a fourth Pirates movie without a script,. Good to know.
• Review: AICN not impressed with Jumper.
• What? Rob Zombie to direct new Conan?
• Eye Candy: In the Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue, modern stars pay tribute to Hitchcock.

It’s glorious.

According to The Guardian, his official involvement with The Hobbit adaption was announced at the French premiere of The Orphanage.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro is in talks to direct The Hobbit.

From the same folks who did Helm’s Deep last year. Crazy, man. Crazy.

Be sure to click through to see the whole thing!

Draco dressed as Legolas (with Ginny as Mara Jade) by Nicole Lokstadt. I’ve had this in my favs for months, how did I forget to include it in Harry Potter week? D’oh.

Children of Hurin comes out today. Suprisingly, the hype is minimal. (via SFBC)

Houghton Mifflin bought American rights to The Children of Húrin, some of which has been published in Unfinished Tales. This new version has been reconstructed and “painstakingly editing together” by Christopher Tolkien. Tolkienites, I hope this is a good thing for you. For the rest of us, the Wiki must provide. (Via THE BEAT.)

In one of the most horrific acts of cross-fandom pollination known to man, Leonard Nimoy sings about Bilbo Baggins and commits it to film.

The rest of the garbage…
- Gnarls Barkley’s MTV Movie Awards performance.
- One fan’s tribute the Wilhelm Scream.
- James Luceno talks about Dark Lord.
- Mashup: Sith City.
- Harry Potter battles the monster Pubertus.
- Classic Clip: Jedi Hunter. Crikey!

The Scotsman has a fascinating article on the friendship between two of Britain’s most beloved literary figures.

CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were the closest of friends, one struggling to make his fantasy world of Middle Earth a literary reality, the other trying to convince friends his first book about Narnia deserved to be published.

But new research has revealed that their friendship was riven by the most bitter and personal of rows on everything from literature to religion and even their choice of spouse.

The fascinating revelations about their real relationship have been made by film-maker Norman Stone while researching a new drama-documentary on the life of Lewis. Stone, who made the award-winning movie about Lewis, Shadowlands, talked to mutual friends of the literary pair as well as examining documents in minute detail.

The drama-documentary is scheduled to air on the Hallmark Channel in the US this December. The BBC is hoping to air it at the same time.