Peter Jackson’s imagining of the dragon will fly into Los Angeles on Monday. By Pip Bulbeck Hobbit fans in New Zealand got the first full look at the dragon Smaug. It’s life-size image was unveiled ...

The second installment of the movie version of “The Hobbit” series, “The Desolation of Smaug,” opens this weekend, and 95 percent of the known world will see it regardless of what any critic says. So ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Ahead of the film’s Comic-Con panel this coming ...

Never mind the dwarves and elves and wizards — maybe even the hobbit. The star of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is the dragon. This movie feels very much like the middle of three parts. After a ...

Five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category this year, and they each offer a nice look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and their effects teams can pull off on the ...

The Ohio Shakespeare Festival is staging a production of "The Hobbit" featuring a massive Smaug puppet. The 26-foot-long dragon puppet is operated by three puppeteers and was built using repurposed ...

Peter Jackson's second installment in the prequel trilogy hits theaters on Dec. 13. By Rebecca Ford The first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second installment of Peter Jackson‘s ...

Smaug: (laughs, interrupts) Ha, no man, I get what you’re asking, do I feel like me taking on a bigger role this time around might have hurt the financial prospects? Laremy: More like do you feel ...

We have just one more chapter in Peter Jackson's trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit, and if you missed the second installment, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, you can catch the film on Blu-Ray and ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's national airline unveiled a giant image Monday of the dragon Smaug on one of its planes to celebrate the premiere of the second movie in the Hobbit trilogy.

Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays the giant dragon Smaug in “The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies,” didn’t feel like a fearsome beast the first time he walked onto the performance capture set. He felt ...

In both the movie version and book version of The Hobbit, the dragon (Smaug) is defeated by an arrow - the Black Arrow. There are some differences between the book and movie versions of this arrow so ...