Post Tagged with: "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug"

An Eagle’s View of Middle-earth

Well that didn’t take long! Only days after Adam Brown, who plays Ori in The Hobbit, posted this selfie of the dwarves at HobbitCon, enterprising artist Leigh created the top image with all of their […]

‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” Extended Edition News

Peter Jackson has just confirmed on his Facebook page that there will be an extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. At the end of his announcement of the name change for The […]

‘The Hobbit: DOS’ Tops Movies on Demand

Rentrak OnDemand Essentials has announced the top ten Movies on Demand titles based on consumer transaction rate for the week of April 7-April 13, 2014. Considering that the latest film in The Hobbit franchise was released online […]

Weta Digital on Virtual Cinematography

Weta Digital has just released this brand new video providing new information about how virtual cinematography helped shape The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. They provided the following description to the video: On their quest […]

Catching Up With Richard Armitage

Actor Richard Armitage has been exceptionally busy over the past several weeks. We have collected a few items here that were not in our earlier stories about the actor. You can find a list of […]

Let it Go, ‘Frozen’ Fans, ‘The Hobbit’ Heats Up Home Video Sale Charts

The Hobbit fans rock! The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has ended the first week of video sales at the top of the sales charts in both the US and UK, knocking Walt Disney’s Frozen into second place. Frozen had held the top […]

Luke Evans Talks Bard the Bowman and the Set of Laketown

The love triangle among Legolas Greenleaf, Tauriel the Elf, and Kili the Dwarf, seen in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, has upset many fans, because the story takes a completely different path from the […]

Richard Armitage in ‘Final Discussions’ to appear at Old Vic Starting June 2014

The Daily Mail is reporting that The Hobbit‘s Richard Armitage is in final discussions to appear in a new production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible at London’s Old Vic Theatre. The show is slated to […]

Richard Armitage Talks with the German Tolkien Society

Earlier today, the German Tolkien Society (Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft, or DTG) published their March 31, 2014, phone interview with Richard Armitage. The actor joined DTG Chairman Tobias M. Eckrich and colleagues to discuss a wide […]

Richard Armitage Interview Roundup

Fans were treated last week to a number of interviews given by actor Richard Armitage, who portrays Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit films. Armitage was a nominee and a presenter at the Jameson Empire Awards […]