Catch up with what’s happening where, with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Roundup.

Added 20 Nov:Mexican Premiere; Heatworld Competition.

World Premiere in LondonThe world premiere will be on Monday 1 December, 2014 at the ODEON, Leicester Square, London.  Cast and collaborators from both The Hobbitand The Lord of the Rings trilogies will be there including Ian McKellen (Gandalf), Richard Armitage (Thorin), Martin Freeman (Bilbo), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Lee Pace (Thranduil) and Luke Evans (Bard).

Others attending according to Be the Red Carpet are Aidan Turner, Benedict Cumberbatch, Andy Serkis, Stephen Fry, Sylvester McCoy, Mikael Persbrandt, Ryan Gage, John Bell, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, Adam Brown, Jed Brophy and Billy Boyd.

For those of you who can’t be there, the event will be live streamed – further details to follow.

Warner Brothers are running a competition for tickets to the world premiere. Details are still to be announced.

Competitions to win tickets to the world premiere include:

First Book and Evangeline LillyHeyUGuys/LynxCineworld UnlimitedVirgin Mobile

Added 20 Nov: HeatworldAdded 21 Nov: Warner Bros Belgium

 

French PremiereThe French premiere will be at the Le Grand Rexin Paris on Thursday 4 December, 2014. Guests include director Peter Jackson along with Martin Freeman (Bilbo) and Richard Armitage (Thorin). Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 19 November at 10 am.

Canadian PremiereToronto will host the Canadian premiere on Saturday 6 December. Details for this are still scarce although there are several competitions to win tickets for the premiere and these mention a red carpet event.  (The Hobbit premiere in 2012 was at Scotiabank theatre.)

Competitions for tickets include:PurehmvTsn radioEB GamesVirgin Mobile

Mexican PremiereWarner Brothers Mexico have announced that Luke Evans (Bard) and Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel) will be guests at the premiere at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City 0n 6 December, 2014

Brazilian ScreeningRichard Armitage (Thorin) will introduce a screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies at Comic Con Experience, São Paulo, on 7 December, 2014 at 10.30 am. Tickets are available from Comic Con Experience.

US PremieresThere are rumours of premieres in New York (8 December) and Los Angeles (9 December) but no official announcement has been made by Warner Brothers.

The Hobbit: BOTFA opens in cinemas in the UK on 12 December and in the US on 17 December, 2014.

 

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