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The worldwide box office for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has reached over $944 million. This represents a 27%/ 73% split between the US and the rest of the world, the US taking $257,806 m and […]
Back in 2012 when Ian McKellen was in New Zealand working on The Hobbit, airbrush artist Talia Pearson asked him to sign some of her work. Talia had painted a tribute to The Hobbit – on a […]
This video from Wired takes us through how they made the barrel scene in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug with some amazing facts and figures like: 98 hours of footage was shot to make the […]
Congratulations to the The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug for gaining eight nominations for the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films 40th Saturn Awards. The Hobbit, together with Gravity, topped the list for the […]
Congratulations to Andy Serkis! Andy is to receive this year’s Vanguard Award in recognition of his work in performance capture. The award will be presented at CinemaCon in March. Andy is, of course, famous for […]
This is so exciting! The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has the top number of nominations in the Jameson Empire Awards and that must, in part, be down to the great number of Middle-earth News readers […]
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit composer Howard Shore will visit Dublin, Ireland, for a concert of his own music in April. “Howard Shore in Dublin” will be introduced by the Academy Award-winning […]
Congratulations! The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has opened in China with thundering box office takings of $32.7 million! This makes it the top Warner Brothers film ever for opening earnings in China. Over three […]
Here’s a nice little video showing scenes from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug before and after the special effects are added. There’s Beorn and his house, Bilbo and Kili with the spiders, Gandalf, Smaug, and, […]
Wow! Look at this! It’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug motion poster brought to us by Trailer Addict. It’s really quite hypnotic! If you have trouble with the player above, click on the picture […]
