While An Unexpected Journey had plenty of bucolic charm, it did, for a Middle-earth film, feel oddly inconsequential. The Desolation Of Smaug remedies that. Moody, urgent and, for want of a better ...

A heavyset man of gross demeanor lurches out of an inn, gnawing a meat bone, and a chuckle of surprise runs through the audience. Peter Jackson, the directorial lord of The Lord of the Rings, the man ...

It also offers another glimpse at Benedict Cumberbatch's gigantic titular dragon. Peter Jackson's JRR Tolkien adaptation picks up from last year's An Unexpected Journey. It will see Bilbo Baggins ...

So close is the release of Peter Jackson's Hobbit sequel that we can almost smell Smaug's fiery dragon breath. "The Desolation of Smaug' shows Peter Jackson in an especially overabundant mood, ...

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” ended with a brief glimpse of the Lonely Mountain in the distance, a shining beacon of hope for the company. “The Desolation of Smaug” begins with a brief flashback ...

Production still from "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug." Whatever you might think of Peter Jackson's/the greedy studio heads' decision to stretch J.R.R. Tolkien's relatively tight book into three ...

Welcome back to Middle-earth! The new trailer for the second installment in the trilogy-fied The Hobbit has landed and anyone excited by the subtitle The Desolation of Smaug—Smaug being a very ...

The Hobbit collection is a three-part epic fantasy-adventure film directed and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel of the same name. The trilogy of films are set in ...

The four-time Oscar winner describes creating a CG dragon that was "twice as big as a 747," saying Peter Jackson "wanted his physical size to dominate." By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “He’s huge, ...

As fans await the next Middle-earth saga, The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, the first installment in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit is finding new life on streaming. The Hobbit: An Unexpected ...