The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Reviews, Interviews & More

With the first film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hitting DVD and Blu-ray recently, it stands that -- following the patterns of The Lord of the Rings movies -- we should start seeing some footage for the next film, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Well, Peter Jackson hosted an online event with the release of...

This week brings The Hobbit and Zero Dark Thirty to DVD and Blu-ray, which is exciting, and some of the most anticipated Criterion releases of the year. So, not a bad week. New: Bachelorette: This is hit VOD last year, and was a minor triumph, and is now coming to DVD/Blu-ray. Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, and Lizzy Caplan...

Now that we're out of the Holiday season, Hollywood is taking a chance to breath and put their hand down their pants. There's one wide release of a horror movie (Texas Chainsaw 3D), and two expansion runs of Oscar-almost rans (The Impossible and Promised Land). Which means it's likely the top five won't change...

The numbers this weekend were pathetic, and if Django Unchained and Les Miserables don't click with audiences, the year will go out with a whimper. There were four wide releases, and none could take The Hobbit, which is no surprise, but a couple couldn't do more business than Rise of the Guardians, which has been in...

Though you would think that Hollywood would be loading up on great movies for the end of the year (and it's been a darn good year), most of the wide releases this weekend are a little weak. Maybe not on paper, but now that we're here they don't stand a chance against The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

There are two ways of looking at the record breaking opening weekend of  The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and it's worth examining both sides of it's victory. Because it's the only thing worth talking about this weekend.

After winning a generation over with what simply is one of the best fantasy trilogies ever, Peter Jackson decided to make live-action movies out of J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Hobbit. Though many question as to why they would stretch out the small tale into three films, audiences this week will return to Middle Earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected...

Believe it or not, it's been a little under a decade since we last saw The Lord of the Rings out in theaters. Now we're turning back the clock on the franchise, going back to its J.R.R. Tolkien's prequel adventure The Hobbit. Now we're on the opening weekend to the first installment of the prequel trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is not coming out to the near-unanimous praise of any of the previous movies. The film was shot in 48 frames per second (double the normal frame rate) and has become an issue - much like the torture in Zero Dark Thirty - that ultimately distracts from the conversation about the film itself. And as 48fps is...

One of the unique things about the upcoming release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, aside from the 48 frames per second, is the use of 3D. The mixture of live actors and CGI backdrops really make the 3D obviously pop. If the picture is successful, could this give Peter Jackson and company an excuse to re-release The Lord of the Rings movies in 3D?...

We're  roughly a week away from the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Yet Warner Bros. is already teasing fans with their third installment, The Hobbit: There and Back Again. We think it's a premature move but to each his own.

Though the film isn't due out until next Friday, last night the embargo lifted on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and there's now a handful of reviews and a handful of clips from the upcoming movie online. Check them out.

The biggest risk New Line took with making the Lord of the Rings films was being committed to three movies. If the first film didn't work and no one liked it, what could be done? Well, that's a question they may be asking themselves with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as the first film doesn't work. Luckily for them they have the cushion...

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: A Unexpected Journey hits theaters in just a few weeks. The highly-anticipated film is likely to have a huge debut at the box office, thanks to the many fans who will rush to theaters that weekend. With that said, some extremely disturbing news surfaced today that might turn away a few fans of the series. Animal wranglers who were involved...

Big news today out of the Shire, Peter Jackson talked to Empire magazine, and told us that (unless there are some large changes before release) that The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is going to be the shortest Lord of the Rings movie yet, with a running time currently of 160 minutes. That, though, is without credits.

Well, it’s finally here: the trailer for Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first of his three-part adaptation of Tolkien’s The Hobbit.  And, after viewing the trailer, it our response is, well, mixed.

Only yesterday it was announced by Peter Jackson that the new trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey would be coming on Wednesday, plus more special content to look out for as well. Now it seems we’ve got the first of that special content in the form of six new photos via USA Today, so check them out below!

Though we’re still five months away from the December 14th release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings series, and a year and a half from its follow-up, The Hobbit: There and Back Again (out December 13, 2014), Jackson is already...

Coming on the heels of the announcement that Peter Jackson, after 266 days of filming since March of 2011, has finally completed the back to back shooting of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Jackson has released the Comic-Con poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.

It's not that surprising that we're going to get a full year of hype for Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. There are few films with as much anticipation around them, and few films that can be counted on to make over $300 Million at the box office (think how much it might make if it's actually good?) The latest is a picture of Martin Freeman's Bilbo...