Often as not, the first step of any journey is bound to be the most difficult, so in retrospect, maybe it shouldn't have been so surprising that last year's trilogy-launching "The Hobbit: An ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Smack dab in the middle of the summer superhero season comes this: a brand-new trailer and images for director Peter Jackson's next Hobbit flick, The Desolation of Smaug. It's been a while since we've ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Earlier today, director Peter Jackson and a ...

If ever there was a film that would fall victim to the infamous "Tomb Raider Trap", it is this one. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey disappointed a large number of hardcore fans but still ended up ...

Peter Jackson's second film in his "Lord of the Rings" prequel trilogy also is opening in 49 territories internationally. By Rebecca Ford A dragon, 13 dwarfs, some elves, a wizard and a determined ...

The biggest question about “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” is whether the first Hobbit movie was so tedious that it will prevent moviegoers from finding out how fun the second one is. The first ...

With the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug just a month away, the film's promotional campaign has kicked into high gear. At a live-cast fan event on Monday, director Peter Jackson and the ...

All of this meant that expectations for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (which I'm calling Desolation for the rest of this review, both for length reasons and because it sounds cool) were, at best ...

Movie theaters breathed fire this weekend as “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” struck box-office gold. The Peter Jackson-directed sequel to last year’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected journey,” raked ...

New %27Hobbit%27 trailer features Smaug the dragon and the return of the elf Legolas %27The Hobbit%3A The Desolation of Smaug%27 opens in theaters Dec. 13 Middle ...

Benedict Cumberbatch did motion-capture and voiceover work for Smaug The dragon%27s mouth proved a challenge Design showed both European and Asian influences He's the biggest star of the movie so ...