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 ...

Warner Bros. has released a nifty new banner for part two of director Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Before there were three films, you’ll remember that Warner ...

The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo ...

Let’s take a step back for a moment. When considering Peter Jackson’s screen adaptation of the beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy there is much to admire about its execution. Not only did Jackson have ...

LONDON — “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” leads the contest for the Jameson Empire Awards, which are voted for by readers of Empire magazine. The pic had seven nominations, followed by “The ...

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 ...

In Tolkien's Middle Earth, the Arkenstone is a rare and precious jewel found deep in the heart of the Lonely Mountain, centuries before Bilbo’s quest in The Hobbit takes place. It’s never explicitly ...

Director Peter Jackson and FXguide’s Mike Seymour reveal how a pivotal seven-minute action sequence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was created with a combined 98 hours of footage from aerial ...

Costume designer Marty LaConte stretches talents to make a 26-foot-long Smaug dragon for the Ohio Shakespeare Festival's ...

Peter Jackson’s imagining of the dragon will fly into Los Angeles on Monday. By Pip Bulbeck Hobbit fans in New Zealand got the first full look at the dragon Smaug. It’s life-size image was unveiled ...