Books into films. Don't you love them? Anyway, I have good news and bad for all us Hobbit geeks living in China.
The good: The Hobbit will be released in China. (A friend, looking at this list on IMDB, was terrified it wouldn't be released over here at all.)
The bad: According to Variety, we'll have to wait until after Spring Festival. They've named February 15th, 2013 as a probable date.
Which
really sucks for me, as I'll be back home in New Zealand by then!
Hopefully the tourist hype will keep in on screen for a while. In the meantime - a video. It looks amazing so far; I can't wait to see the real thing.