A sculpture of an eagle from the Hobbit films, ridden by the wizard Gandalf, hangs over the food court area of Wellington Airport, in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, May 5, 2025.

Warner Bros. has announced that The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum will arrive in movie theaters on December 17, 2027. The film is being directed by Gollum star Andy Serkis, and produced ...

‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost moa The moa had roamed New Zealand for 4,000 years until they became extinct around 600 years ago ...

News / Life / Entertainment ‘Lord of the Rings’ director backs long shot de-extinction plan, starring New Zealand’s lost moa Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New ...

The moa had roamed New Zealand for 4,000 years until they became extinct around 600 years ago, mainly because of overhunting. A large skeleton brought to England in the 19th century, now on ...

At that point, he’d amassed 300 to 400 bones, he said. In New Zealand, it’s legal to buy and sell moa bones found on private lands, but not on public conservation areas — nor to export them.

Paul Scofield, a project adviser and senior curator of natural history at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, said he first met the “Lord of the Rings” director when he went to ...