I know you love cinema, why else would you be here? Well, here’s a cool opportunity you might want to join in on. Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro will be answering some questions about ‘The Hobbit’ for a full hour Saturday next week — or Sunday, depending on where you live. The ‘party’ will take place at Weta Holics, with both directors answering pre-selected and live questions.

I love it when ‘big’ people keep connected with their audience. It shows how they care about the fans and don’t take themselves too seriously. The internet is a great medium to do this. You might get a lot of dirt if you put up your own website and answer your own emails as a ‘Hollywood star.’ But it will at least keep you grounded. The opposite of what happened to someone like Tom Cruise, who mostly had nodding donkeys around him.

Coming back to the story about the ‘Best Practices Guide for Green Production,’ the biggest pollution problem for Hollywood seems to be transport. While the stars drive a Prius, trucks and equipment are still running on dirty diesel.

“Movie production is an inherently high-polluting business. You usually must move large numbers of people and equipment fairly long distances, often to remote locations,” a consultant with the GreenSpeed Automotive Group said. “Once you get situated you have to power lots of lights and other equipment, many times by using diesel generators that are not especially clean.”

“Throw in a few special-effects explosions, and you clearly have left a significant carbon footprint along with many other types of pollution.” Yeah, that’s what I said. So if you are into the environment, think about what you are enjoying when Tom Cruise blows up the next car.