Pop links: Del Torro on the Hobbit film; Boom Studio's new Toy Story comic

Director Guillermo del Toro updates the BBC on his progress filming Tokien's "The Hobbit."

The intensity of the scenes of the Hobbit will have the intensity they had in the book when I was a kid reading them.

The spiders of Mirkwood are a pretty harrowing experience and facing the great goblin in the caves is quite a thrilling moment. The Battle of the Five Armies, the first encounter with Gollum - there are scary moments in the book.

But they are already there. We are not inventing or trying to do horror for horror's sake we are trying to imbue those moments of intensity in the book into the movie.

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Newsarama previews the first issue of a new Toy Story comic from Boom Studios, which is doing some great titles for kids.