This, in part, is due to its coarseness in texture, a property that makes it an excellent material for otherworldly film characters like Chewbacca and the dwarves in The Hobbit. The dwarves’ wigs were ...

No movie all year arrives with the crazy fan anticipation of Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” which has morphed from being a straightforward adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Hollywood Reporter called the three Hobbit films ‘a $1 billion gamble ... of them – 91 for the film’s 13 dwarfs alone. The hair is not synthetic but from humans – or yaks.

Peter Hambleton becomes his character Gloin thanks to the skills of The Hobbit's prosthetics supervisor Tami Lane and makeup and hair designer Peter King. Photo / Mark Pokorny The Hobbit films may ...

Sure, they had a lot less hair, wore suits instead of swords and ... the same jolly spirit at the New York premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as their counterparts did on screen.

Just how Hobbit crazy is Wellington? A sampling: However, one key castmember will be missing. Ian McKellen, who reprises his role as wizard Gandalf the Grey, said in a statement that “it is ...

A long-lost version of The Hobbit by animation legend Gene Deitch ... Why has nobody ever seen it? The crazy circumstances that led to the production are revealed in this piece that Gene wrote ...