The Battle of the Five Armies was the final installment in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, and as the name implied, ...

VFX artist James Willingham explains how Smaug's death in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies was at one point going to be different and more difficult to create. After being the main threat ...

3. The dragon's mouth was a different kind of challenge. When Andy Serkis did motion-capture to play Gollum in the first Hobbit movie, it was for a character with a humanoid face. With Smaug and ...

Warning: There are some spoilers ahead. "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" is out in theaters Friday. We saw the second installment to Peter Jackson's "Hobbit" trilogy Tuesday night in 3D and ...

The second part of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" trilogy goes a long way — and at 2 1 / 2 hours, I do mean long — toward righting the wrongs of the first movie, which was even longer. The first ...

Nearly everything about "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" represents an improvement over the first installment of Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved creation.

Hobbit fans in New Zealand got the first full look at the dragon Smaug. It’s life-size image was unveiled Monday on the side of an Air New Zealand Boeing 737 before flying from Auckland, N.Z ...

The first film, “An Unexpected Journey,” grossed $1.02 billion worldwide after its December 2012 U.S. release, and the third film “The Hobbit: There And Back Again” will open on Dec. 17, 2014.

Fueled by foreign fans, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" has crossed the $500 million mark in worldwide grosses. "Smaug," co-produced by New Line and MGM, hit the milestone in two weeks after ...

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The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug was the big story of the weekend, rolling out in 49 markets since last Wednesday. Its international haul has come in higher than Sunday’s estimates with an ...