The Times (UK) & New Zealand Herald coverage

The New Zealand Herald covered The Hunt For Gollum today in their article March of the fifth Gollum
They appear to be the first to ask Peter Jackson's camp if he's seen THFG, with the following answer, I quote "a spokesman for Jackson said they have chosen not to comment about the film". Of course Jackson himself is likely far too busy to watch a film like this, so I'm certainly not expecting any feedback from him. That would only generate more publicity, and we've had more than our fair share of press already. Even so I can't help but wonder what his reaction would be. I hope he would understand where we're coming from, and that this was simply a labour of love, and a chance to learn about film-making.

Also, The Times did a nice article last week: Gollum spearheads the Hollywood fan-film revolution pointing out that the film has had 3.5 million views - figures beating most big budget feature film releases.

Extended version featured on Youtube USA

On friday co-producer Spencer alerted me that we'd had over 70,000 views in 1 hour on the Youtube version of the film, which is extended in that 1 scene with Arithir was added back in. Anyway it turns out that the film was featured on this Friday's Youtube Spotlight on the USA/Worldwide homepage.



It's had over 600,000 views in the last 24 hours - crazy!

Inside Report - interview at SCI-FI-LONDON

The charming folks at INSIDE REPORT
did a feature on The Hunt for Gollum just before the premiere at SCI-FI-LONDON.
Check it out (includes Gareth doing his Gollum impression...) and me saying "great" far too many times.

24 hours and 200,000 views later...

http://www.thehuntforgollum.com
is finally back up online (sorry for that) and I need to sleep, maybe dream of the next project! So i'll leave you with these links somebody kindly emailed me...

(posting this really for the cast and crew to check out, have fun guys - was an awesome party!! loving you all!)

http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/news/1811402/rts_top_5_fan_films
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8022623.stm

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103673352
US radio

Review:
http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/reviews.php?id=8013
http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/05/03/lord-of-the-rings-fan-film-the-hunt-for-gollum-now-online/
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/the-hunt-for-gollum-full-short-film-now-online
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2009/05/03/32047-fan-film-hunt-for-gollum-watch-it-now/
http://www.starlog.com/home/daily-news/1-movies-a-television/117-the-hunt-for-gollum-begins
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/695191/LOTR-Fan-Film-The-Hunt-For-Gollum-Premieres-This-Weekend.html
http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/143808,new-lord-of-the-rings-film.aspx
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8028657.stm
BBC Northern Ireland
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2009/05/01/will-the-hunt-for-gollum-satisfy-true-fans/
http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/04/hunt-gollum.html
http://londonist.com/2009/04/arts_ahead_whats_on_in_london_29_ap.php
http://fancinematoday.com/
http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/?p=12760
http://www.demonews.de/kurznachrichten/index.php?shortnews=20380
http://www.moviereporter.net/news/6967-the-hunt-for-gollum-ein-prequel-von-fans
http://www.jatekok.hu/hirek.php?tabla=hirek_200905&id=32
http://www.vivacinema.it/articolo/the-hunt-for-gollum-e-uscito/8595/
http://blog.screenweek.it/2009/05/the-hunt-for-gollum-finalmente-on-line-42514.php
http://www.badtaste.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7772&Itemid=63
http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/50268-the-hunt-for-gollum.html
http://www.filmtotaal.nl/artikel.php?id=13734
http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/05/04/kultur/film/ringenes_herre/tolkien/peter_jackson/6042321/
http://www.elbakin.net/film/news/9935-The-Hunt-for-Gollum-est-en-ligne
http://www.fantasymundo.com/noticias/10353/hunt_for_gollum_online
http://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle=18458491.html
http://www.gamona.de/kino-dvd/der-hobbit,die-jagd-nach-gollum-fanprojekt-ist-fertig:news,1469439.html
http://www.fantasy.fr/articles/view/9288/un-extrait-pour-the-hunt-for-gollum
http://www.mymovies.it/cinemanews/2009/6424/
http://www.omelete.com.br/cine/100019395/O_Senhor_dos_Aneis.aspx
http://www.elbenwald.de/news.php?news=n3358_Trailer-zum-Herr-der-Ringe-Fan-Film--The-Hunt-for-Gollum.html
http://www.rumors.it/notizie/29358/articolo.htm
http://www.new.divirta-se.uai.com.br/html/sessao_8/2009/04/30/ficha_cinema/id_sessao=8&id_noticia=10650/ficha_cinema.shtml
http://blog.screenweek.it/2009/04/fan-film-su-gollum-online-gratuitamente-fra-pochi-giorni-42225.php
http://www.corriere.it/spettacoli/09_aprile_25/grandesso_e09aca00-31b2-11de-98f0-00144f02aabc.shtml
http://epocanegocios.globo.com/Revista/Common/0,,EMI69923-16353,00-FAS+DE+O+SENHOR+DOS+ANEIS+GRAVAM+INICIO+INEDITO+DA+SAGA+COM+R+MIL.html
http://www.ecrans.fr/L-ecole-des-fan-films,7029.htm
http://www.fantasybookreview.co.uk/blog/2009/04/25/the-hunt-for-gollum-video-teaser/
The Guardian Guide
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/03/fan-films-hunt-for-gollum
The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/movie/129688/hunt-for-gollum
http://www.highlandersbooks.com/2009/05/03/newsflash-the-hunt-for-gollum/
http://www.themorningstarr.co.uk/2009/05/03/the-hunt-for-gollum/
http://www.sfx.co.uk/page/sfx?entry=the_hunt_for_gollum_to

Featured on BBC Radio 6 Music

I was asked to phone into the Nemone Show to talk about the film. You can hear the interview here:
BBC Radio 6 Music.mp3