The Hobbit in Empire Magazine

The cover story of Empire magazine's new issue (out tomorrow) is: The Hobbit!

What’s that, you say? It’s not even out for two years? Well, yes, but inside our special feature, you’ll find a one-stop shop of information on the films that may be the most anticipated of the next few years.

More on their website.

Kristin Thompson writes on her blog, It sounds from the online description that anyone who has been keeping up on TheOneRing.net, here, and on other specialist sites will be familiar with quite a bit of what’s in this issue. Still, there’s a new interview with Guillermo Del Toro, and he usually manages to drop in a few new facts.

Ah, nostalgia...

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iabb39aac80c6a2789c652302e975ad02

'Notorious' scribe takes on Run-DMC
Cheo Hodari Coker will adapt 'Tougher Than Leather'
By Jay A. Fernandez
Jan 29, 2009, 01:00 AM ET

Cheo Hodari Coker is making himself quite a morbid niche: writing biopics about slain rap stars.

The "Notorious" screenwriter is attached to adapt Bill Adler's "Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC -- The Authorized Biography" for DJ Classicz, the urban arm of Davis Entertainment. DJ Classicz president Dallas Jackson optioned the book recently and will produce with production partner John Davis.

Adler, the group's former publicist, will executive produce.

While Fox Searchlight's "Notorious," released two weeks ago, outlines the life and premature death of Christopher Wallace, aka the Notorious B.I.G., "Tougher" will explore the history of hip-hop's first superstars: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Jason "Jam Master Jay" Mizell, who was shot to death in his Queens studio in 2002.

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Now here's a rap group I liked - certainly most of their singles; never owned any of their albums. And doesn't the fact that I remember them from way back date me? :D I still think "Walk This Way" is pure genius, plus of course it provided a big comeback for Aerosmith! Can't remember "My Adidas" at all, but it's well possible that I'd recognize it on hearing.