It won’t come as a surprise to many fans, but the New Zealand Herald has brought us confirmation that Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro intend to film the two upcoming Hobbit movies in New Zealand, where the original Lord of the Rings movies were shot.
Peter Jackson and Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro say [...]

It was announced this week that Guillermo del Toro, the new director of The Hobbit movies, direct prequels to Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, will enter pre-production after Hellboy II: The Golden Army is released this July.
But the more exciting news, arguably, was that three of the original actors from LotR have been approached [...]