Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In retrospect, Jackson faced an uphill battle from the start, but he and his collaborators, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, made a ...

Peter Jackson's two film trilogies set in Middle-Earth have become classics on all their own, with fans still raving about them years later. Every fan has their favorite of the bunch. Over the course ...

Peter Jackson's The Hobbitfilm trilogy was never as well-received as his first foray into Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings (although neither have gotten the same vitriol as Amazon's ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Hollywood director Guillermo del Toro said Monday that production delays have forced him to quit the planned film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a two-part ...

First came the original trilogy, a popular success and critically acclaimed. Then, some years later, a second trilogy began, a prequel to the original, and the first installment of this second trilogy ...

We knew that director Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth had been blown up into two prequel films. Now it just might be his second J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy. When Jackson and his stars hit San ...

Moviegoers helped Peter Jackson bid farewell to Middle Earth in style, pushing “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” to $90.6 million over its first five days in theaters. The franchise finale ...

There's a rumor afoot that Peter Jackson and New Line are considering turning the upcoming The Hobbit films, originally planned as two installments, into a trilogy. Yeah, because apparently there's an ...

It’s the most unwanted honor in the movie business: the year’s most pirated film. This year’s unfortunate winner is Warner Bros.’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Variety reports that “The Hobbit” ...

One area where The Hobbit films did not disappoint is the cast. Martin Freeman, one of the stars of the original version of The Office, was well-chosen to play a young Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit at the ...