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The Hobbit: D of S Hospice Fundraiser

The Mary Potter Hospice in New Zealand is holding a film fundraiser featuring The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. This family event  is on Wednesday 18 December 2013, from 5:30pm to 9:30pm, at the Embassy Theatre […]

The Hobbit Extended Edition Extracts

A couple of extracts from the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have popped up on You Tube.  The extracts are scenes from Rivendell and Goblin Town. Watch them here: Rivendell http://youtu.be/ovKDk7ZaXSw   […]

Desolation of Smaug Stamps for NZ

New Zealand Post is issuing a set of stamps to celebrate the release of the second film in  The Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The set of six stamps individually depict Thorin (70c),  Tauriel […]

Richard Armitage, the Barrel Scene and Wetsuits

Richard Armitage has been talking about the barrel scene in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. In an interview with HitFix Richard, who plays the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield, says, “Being in those bloody barrels, it […]

Australian Award for The Hobbit Cinematographer

Andrew Lesnie, the Academy Award-winning Australian cinematographer of The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, is to be awarded the Murray Forrest Award for Film Craft at the gala presentation of the 68th Australian […]

Advanced Tickets for The Hobbit on Sale Soon

Advanced tickets for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will go on sale in the US on 21 November, 2013. This news is brought to us via the third TV spot for the film which […]

Finally, We See Beorn!

The Italian site hobbitfilm.it has posted an image of the skin-changer Beorn,  taken from the movie tie-in annual for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. You can read more about Mikael Persbrandt, who plays Beorn, here.

The Hobbit Costs Double the Amount of LOTR

The current cost of making The Hobbit trilogy is more than double that spent on the three The Lord of the Rings films and rising! APNewsBreak reports that, according to financial documents filed in New […]

New TV Spots for The Hobbit and Rereleased Trailer

Earlier this week we had the new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and now we find that Warner Brothers have replaced it with a better looking version (same content) and given us […]

Full Length Smaug Seen In HFR 3D

The trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug had its first showing in HFR 3D at the IBC Awards in Amsterdam last weekend. And it included the first full body shot of Smaug! Adrian […]