J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings novels changed fantasy writing forever. Laying the foundations of the genre's position as a cornerstone of geek culture, it eventually paved the way for the ...

The lead actors of the third and last installment of "The Hobbit" series are warning moviegoers before they head into to the theater to see "The Battle of the Five Armies"-- study up first. "I would ...

New Line and Warner Bros. also have retitled the second film "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer Additionally, the second film has been retitled The Hobbit: ...

The Hobbit movies' box office put an end to The Lord of the Rings' $1 billion trend, reversing the franchise's performance ...

Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins in "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies." Mark Pokorny © 2014 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures ...

Reanna Gonzalez received her MFA in screenwriting and has been writing movie and television sceenplays for 5 years. She was mentored be Tony Award-winning playwright, Mark Medoff. She spends her free ...

Peter Jackson's epic Middle Earth saga started with a bang with 2001's “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring” but now ends with a whimper in the final chapter of “The Hobbit” trilogy: “The Battle ...

The new entry into a surprising trilogy gets a green light -- even with a mystery budget. By Kim Masters Editor-at-Large Jackson and Walsh. “If anybody had been a big hindrance, it wouldn’t have ...

The Hobbit movies were divisive for fantasy fans, to say the least, but there are other movies that are far more impressive ...

Yes, it’s over. Having stretched itself out over way more hours than many people (though not necessarily me) think it should have, Peter Jackson’s three-part film adaptation of 'The Hobbit' has ...

The opening Erebor scene seemed too long (as was the later Cave Troll scene), the Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm)/Frodo Baggins (Elijah Wood)’ moments were plain, and the dwarf introductions were far too ...

It’s all too easy to be cynical about Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy. The decision to stretch a single fairly slim tome across three films got many Middle-Earth fans crying ‘foul’ before a single shot ...