Peter Jackson’s film about the WM3 to premiere at Sundance

The documentary produced by Peter Jackson based on the case of the West Memphis Three is set to premiere out of competition at the Sundace Film Festival this Saturday.

“West of Memphis” (WingNut Films), which goes under the direction of American Filmmaker Amy Berg, reopens the investigation of the case of the US teens- known as the West Memphis Three-  convicted of the satanic ritual killings of three eight-year-old boys (Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers) in Arkansas in 1994.

The film, following the steps of the three previous HBO documentaries by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (“Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills”, “Paradise Lost 2: Revelations” and “Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory”), raises questions about the evidence as it is widely believed that the trio (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr.) has been wrongly convicted -in fact some supporters include Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder- and they were set free on August 19, 2011 after spending 18 years in jail.

Jackson, who scooped another award winning best animated feature film for “The Adventures of Tintin” (Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures, 2011) at Monday’s Golden Globes ceremony, and his partner, Fran Walsh, produced the film alongside Echols and his wife, Lorri Davis.

The first screening will be held at Utah's Sundance Festival on Saturday afternoon.

For more information about the movies competing in the festival click here.

If you want to know more about the case or the documentaries you can visit the WM3 official website.

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” trailer unveiled

Say hello once again to ‘little people’, elves, bearded wizards and other creatures from the Middle-earth because Warner Bros via their social networks and the film’s official blog has uncovered the trailer for Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” one year ahead of its release.

The movie based on another J.R.R. Tolkien classic fantasy novel travels back in time to immerse the spectator in an epic journey to the Lonely Mountain where hobbit Bilbo Baggins accompanied by a group of dwarves is in the search for a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug.

The new episode reunites part of “The Lord of the Rings” fellowship with Sir Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Orlando Bloom and Andy Serkis reprising their roles, and some new faces like comedian Stephen Fry, Martin Freeman as a young Bilbo, and lostie Evangeline Lilly.

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is set to hit the silver screen on December 14. The adventure will conclude with the arrival of “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” on 2013.

What follows is the film trailer.