Hobbit Movie Facts (via Forbes.com)

- Although The Hobbit has many outdoor locations, ninety-nine sets were built for the film.
- $9,180,000 was spent on set construction materials.
- Bilbo and the dwarves walked to Moria; the film cast and crew, however, flew. In all, they took 6750 domestic flights.
- The crew had to sleep somewhere, and since mid-2009, when the movie began pre-production, they used 93,000 hotel bed nights.
- New Zealand actors worked for 16,000 days during the production. (That was 266 days of filming.)
- $1.5 million of the budget went to food.
- And most importantly, $380,000 was spent on coffee.
- Between 600-700 wigs were made for the movie.
- Four tons of silicon were used to make the facial prosthetics that just about every on-screen actor wore.
- Those thirteen dwarves? They actually carried a total of 547 weapons. And these weapons were taken around New Zealand wherever the dwarves went.

Originally posted: 16/12/2012