The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The IMAX® Experience!
From Academy Award® winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" — the first of a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The film follows title character Bilbo Baggins — along with the Wizard Gandalf and 13 Dwarves, led by the legendary warrior Thorin Oakenshield — is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome Dragon Smaug.
Along the path, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of a “precious” ring tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways he cannot begin to know.
The screenplay for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro.
Jackson is also producing the film, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, and Fran Walsh.
The Executive Producers are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins, and Carolyn Blackwood, with Boyens and Eileen Moran serving as Co-Producers.
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and the second and third films of the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM), with New Line managing production.
Warner Bros. Pictures is handling worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as well as all international television distribution being handled by MGM.
The IMAX® release will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of An IMAX® 3D Experience® with proprietary IMAX® DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX® customized theater geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.
Select IMAX® 3D theaters will play "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" in HFR.
Event locations in the Park inlcude: IMAX® Theater (in the Indiana State Museum) at White River State Park.
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