VFX artist James Willingham reveals his more complex pitch for Smaug's death in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. The final version of the death scene is more dramatic and personal for ...

Joe Letteri, visual-effects supervisor on The Hobbit, says he took a lot of cues for Smaug's persona from the thespian's vocals, especially confronting Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) when he ...

Instead of wasting half the movie, as the first one did, stuck in a claustrophobic hobbit-hole with a bunch of drunken dwarves, “Smaug” opens with a pulse-pounding — and yes, photogenic ...

This movie was screened in 24 frames-per-second and 3D. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second installment in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation, finds Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman ...

The second entry, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, is now in theaters everywhere, and while it’s definitely an improvement from Unexpected Journey, I’m still not convinced that the Hobbit ...

(Although Radagast is mentioned in the “Hobbit” and “LOTR” books, he never appears in person.) He’s back in “Desolation of Smaug,” to less offensive effect; while he still feels more ...

Smaug somehow finds his way around every pillar, while the Hobbit slip-slops over mountains of gold, as though he's got lost on one of those coin-machines on the pier. The Hobbit receives good and ...

Here's my problem: I can't figure out if "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" is a good movie. Despite all of its significant steps forward, I also feel strangely unaffected by "The Desolation of ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug opens tonight at midnight, and it’s probably going to gross enough to buy so much cocaine. We’ve already posted some pictures and clips from the film ...

But for director Peter Jackson, the actor is pure dragon. "Smaug has to be more than just a voice," said Jackson at The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug's premiere at the Dolby Theater on Monday ...

Nearly everything about "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" represents an improvement over the first installment of Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved creation.

Handsome though Peter Jackson’s first Hobbit film was to behold, it was difficult to escape the feeling that its expansive duration was one big long tease: a setting in place of events that ...