Five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category this year, and they each offer a nice look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and their effects teams can pull off on the ...

He's the biggest star of the movie so there was a lot that went into creating Smaug, the dragon the size of a 747 that rules over Erebor with greedy malevolence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

What will Smaug the dragon actually look like in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug? We might not know until the movie arrives on December 13. But in the meantime, it might be even better to know ...

The second installment of the movie version of “The Hobbit” series, “The Desolation of Smaug,” opens this weekend, and 95 percent of the known world will see it regardless of what any critic says. So ...

“The Hobbit” dragon Smaug peeked his gigantic head into “The Colbert Report” studio Thursday to talk fiscal conservatism and blast Hollywood’s “liberal conservative bias.” Oh, he was also plugging a ...

Come face to face with Smaug the Magnificent, the most realistic, breathtaking and destructive dragon ever to appear on screen, in this gallery of exclusive images that tell the story of how he was ...

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Peter Jackson's second installment in the prequel trilogy hits theaters on Dec. 13. By Rebecca Ford The first trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second installment of Peter Jackson‘s ...

Peter Jackson’s imagining of the dragon will fly into Los Angeles on Monday. By Pip Bulbeck Hobbit fans in New Zealand got the first full look at the dragon Smaug. It’s life-size image was unveiled ...

Benedict Cumberbatch did motion-capture and voiceover work for Smaug The dragon%27s mouth proved a challenge Design showed both European and Asian influences He's the biggest star of the movie so ...