Earlier his year, Peter Jackson posted a video featuring The Hobbit and the beginning of its production. The video features multiple aspects about the film, including stunts, props, costumes, and sets. Aidan Turner is featured when they block a scene, showing all the actors preparing for where they’ll stand when they start filming. Check out the video below:

Promotional photographs for The Hobbit have slowly been released recently, but today’s was a real treat. Finally, we’re able to see what Aidan Turner looks like as his character, Kili! The image has been added to the Gallery and, hopefully, more updates about this epic movie will come soon. (Thanks to Geneva for providing ATO with a high-quality image!)

What did I tell ya? Along with a new site owner, Aidan Turner Online also has a brand new look! I wanted something a little darker and broody, and Transfixx Productions delivered. Additionally, the Gallery has a new look, although it’s a matching theme to go with the main site. I’m so, so incredibly satisfied with the new layouts and I hope you are, too.

Also, ATO now has a Twitter account! You can follow the site @AidanTurnercom.

Hey, everyone! My name is Kristina, owner of sites such as Aaron Tveit Fan, Bryan Fuller Online, Hugh Jackman Fan, and Lee Pace Odyssey. Vicki has created this amazing resource for all things Aidan Turner and I thank her for giving fans such a great center for information. She’s been wonderful, but now she’s passing on the torch.

I’ve been visiting Aidan Turner Online for a couple of years – since around the site’s inception! – and I’m so honored to be taking over as the new webmistress/owner. I hope to keep expanding the site and creating more content for you, the dutiful fans of Aidan. In the meantime, some changes will be made that won’t hurt the site at all, such as new layouts.

I can’t wait to really start providing fans with all the latest on everything Aidan Turner. Thanks for tuning in!

The Hobbit titles for the movies are “An Unexpected Journey” and “There And Back Again”.

Hattie is being reshown tonight at 9.45 on BBC2.

Thanks to Marg for the tip.

U.K. fans figured Aidan Turner’s bloodsucker Mitchell wasn’t long for the show the second Peter Jackson cast the actor in The Hobbit. But did they also assume he wasn’t long for the world? Perhaps… primarily because the majority of this current season centered on a prophecy that Mitchell (who murdered 20 people on a Bristol train) would be slain by a werewolf — the knowledge of which sent him spiraling from a determined hero to paranoid lunatic. Not even the love of a good woman — or ghost, i.e. Lenora Crichlow’s Annie — could save him. (If you haven’t seen the final episode, it’s probably best to stop reading now. Spoilers ahead!)

Yet, Mitchell’s mercy killing at the hands of wolf-buddy George (Russell Tovey) in Saturday’s finale still hurt. Bad. Maybe it was all the tears and “I love yous” between the pair and flatmate Annie, or that new evil vampire Wyndam (Lee Ingleby) popped up at the last minute to unsuccessfully keep Mitchell alive as his henchman. Either way, it was brutal watching one of the roomies, literally, turn to dust in the wind — so EW called Being Human creator/executive producer Toby Whithouse to talk about why Mitchell couldn’t have just retired to South America, if we can expect new vamps in his place, and what could have happened if he lived.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you know you were going have to write Mitchell out of the show?
TOBY MITCHELL: To be honest, the first time I met Aidan. I knew he was somebody we’d only be borrowing from movie stardom. In the U.S. you’ll contract actors for seven seasons — we don’t have the finances to do that. So every time we start a new series, we have to renegotiate with the actors and see whom we have left. Sure enough, Peter Jackson came along and saw Aidan and whisked him away to New Zealand. The thing is, I was kind of preparing myself for that on series 2 when I wrote the sequence where he kills all those people on the train. I always knew that would ultimately be the reason for the character’s exit, whether it happened at the end of series 3 or 33.

READ MORE @ EW.

For those who missed it Hattie will be on again on BBC4 on the 29th of March at 10pm.

Filming is taking place at Stone Street Studios in Wellington, New Zealand, and around the country.

In January, director Peter Jackson had surgery for a perforated ulcer.

Warner Bros and New Line studios had previously considered taking the production away from New Zealand after acting unions threatened to boycott the films in protest over payments.

And filming had earlier been stalled by problems including rows over distribution rights and the exit of original director Guillermo del Toro.

The films star Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins and the first is due out late next year.

Also starring Sir Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey, Andy Serkis as Gollum, Elijah Wood as Frodo and Cate Blanchett as Galadriel, the films act as a prequel to Jackson’s trilogy of films based on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Source: Sky.