Tens of thousands of New Zealanders turned out to watch their favourite Hobbit actors walk the red carpet at the film trilogy's home town premiere.

New Zealand’s capital Wellington will rename itself The Middle of Middle-Earth when it hosts the world premiere of The Hobbit movie trilogy next month.

Richard O’Brien’s much-loved Rocky Horror Picture Show character Riff Raff is to be immortalised on the other side of the world, it emerged today.

An eight metre high cave troll is to stand outside a New Zealand cinema.