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Watch as New Zealand becomes Middle-Earth for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug in this featurette

Whether you love the trailer for THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG or not, you cannot deny that the new Peter Jackson trilogy still captures the majestic and beautiful landscapes of Middle-Earth as portrayed by the New Zealand countryside. For other franchises that would have resorted to green screen vistas, Jackson and crew were able to film in New Zealand and turn the natural...

Cool Videos: Hobbit actors react to Hobbit fans reacting to The Desolation of Smaug trailer

This is pretty cool. As is all the rage these days with the youngins on the Internets, videos of people reacting to other videos has reached into the world of Peter Jackson 's THE HOBBIT. With THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG unveiling a trailer yesterday we have a cool look at some fans of the movie series watching the new trailer. The girls are visibly excited at seeing Orlando...

First trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug features lots of leaping and a peek at the dragon

The first trailer for THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG has arrived and features more of the grand scale adventure you've come to expect from Peter Jackson . For the second part of this journey we're introduced to a number of new (and returning) characters, including Tauriel ( Evangeline Lilly ), Legolas ( Orlando Bloom ), Bard the Bowman ( Luke Evans ), and a closer look at the titular...

First poster for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!

It was announced that the first trailer for THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG will be online very soon but the first poster for the movie is going to have to tide you over until then. While it isn't boring the poster also isn't an instant classic and it's about what you'd expect of a poster for the Peter Jackson film. Although THE HOBBIT: AN...

Find out when you can see the first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

Rumor has it that the first trailer for THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG will play before MAN OF STEEL. Well it seems that the rumors are true according to an exclusive from Emileeid. The cool part is that not only will it be 2:30 minutes but it will also be a theatrical trailer rather than a teaser. I'm here for Evangeline Lilly . I already know to anticipate a long journey,...

First official image of Evangeline Lilly as Tauriel in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

It's a good day for fans of Evangeline Lilly, who is officially revealed today as Tauriel, the elf warrior from THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG who is "slightly reckless and totally ruthless and doesn’t hesitate to kill,” according to the actress. Lilly revealed some more information about her character, who does not appear in J.R.R. Tolkien's book (or any...

Viggo Mortensen declined to reprise his role as Aragorn in The Hobbit trilogy

When Peter Jackson originally announced that THE HOBBIT would be broken into three films we were all left wondering how he planned to pad the story to fill that much running time. Aa we saw with THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, Jackson has stretched the material so far and appears to be back-filling the second and third film with other writings from J.R.R. Tolkien . This year's...

Ready for a sneak peek at The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug? Wait no longer!

Did you get the chance to tune into Peter Jackson 's live event last week for THE HOBBIT? If you did then you were privy to some sneak peek footage of the sequel, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG. Lucky for us and thanks to Warner Bros., Jackson got to share six-minutes of the live event that included said footage. All I have to say is: Evangeline Lilly !!! Of course there's...

Judy Greer cast as lead female ape in Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

Frequent romcom, sitcom, and all-around recognizable star Judy Greer has landed the lead role of Cornelia in director Matt Reeves ' DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the sequel to the 2011 Apes reboot.  Cornelia was introduced in that film as a potential monkey-love interest for Andy Serkis ' Ceasar, played by Andy Serkis , and will now have a much larger role in the follow up, this time...

New details from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug from Peter Jackson's blu-ray live session

Yesterday, director Peter Jackson held a live Q&A event to coincide with the releae of THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, where he answered fan questions about the new trilogy and teased a lot of details in regards to the next two films. The session was open only for those who had a code from their purchased copy of the film (of which I purchased last Tuesday) and featured a number of...

Keri Russell to join Gary Oldman and Jason Clarke in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Lucky Keri Russell getting the leading female role in DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, however, she has connections. Director on the project, Matt Reeves has worked with Russell before on the WB show, FELICITY. Is that taking you back? The series ran from 1998 to 2002. Reeves was a co-creator alongside J.J. Abrams . That was a new one for me. I didn't watch FELICITY though....

The Hobbit: There And Back Again has been pushed back to December 2014

Quick, but important news here. According to Deadline, THE HOBBIT: THERE AND BACK AGAIN has been pushed back from the initial June 18, 2014 date to December 17, 2014. Yay! Christmas present! I find it sort of fitting that THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG and THERE AND BACK again will both be released in December. Obviously not a Christmas movie, but something about them...