The Hobbit fits perfectly into this world, and for obvious reasons: Jackson assembled the same creative team, including effects by WETA, a score by Howard Shore and the same writing team of Fran ...

Failure is of course a relative thing—sure enough, The Hobbit opened bigger than Jesus in the US last weekend, taking $84.8m in just two days—but considered purely as a film, rather than as a ...

PRESS STATEMENT FROM WARNER BROS: "New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM have announced the titles and release dates for filmmaker Peter Jackson's two-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's ...

PETER Jackson’s new big screen fantasy adventure, An Unexpected Journey, is released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Tolkien’s novel, The Hobbit, first being published.