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Peter Jackson has sent Reece Puddington a video message! Readers will remember that, back in February, we reported on how 11 year old Reece Puddington had created a bucket list, for Reece is seriously ill with cancer neuroblastoma. One […]
“Truly, the tales and songs fall utterly short of your enormity, oh Smaug the Stupendous.” In his encounter with the dragon Smaug in the deep halls of Erebor in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, […]
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 […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug garnered Oscar nominations in three categories (Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick, and Tony Johnson for Best Sound Mixing, Brent Burge for Best Sound Editing, and Joe Letteri, Eric […]
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 […]
Last week, PopVinyls.com shared some great information from Toy Fair 2014. Funko will be releasing three new Hobbit figures in 2014! Tauriel, Bard the Bowman, and – yes! – Smaug himself will join the Hobbit […]
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 […]
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, […]
Matt Aitken, the Hobbit’s Visual Effects Supervisor, talks about the realization of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in a recent interview with Flickering Myth. Aitken was supported by the Senior Visual Effects Supervisor Joe […]
