Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Hughes is an entertainment writer covering cinema and genre TV. The marketing is likewise working overtime to drive home the ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. With a title like The Hobbit: The Battle of the ...

With the imminent release of the first of Peter Jackson’s three-part adaptation of “The Hobbit,” I revisited J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1937 novel, which I had not opened since I was a teen-ager. Re-reading ...

It’s difficult to judge the second part of what was always intended to be a trilogy. You expect it to leave things open ended, and yet there are several examples of the second acts being among the ...

Just before the long weekend hit, Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM jointly announced the release dates and final titles of all three Hobbit movies: The final film in Peter Jacksons trilogy adaptation of ...

If the first two installments of the Hobbit movie trilogy are at times (arguably) too serious and (definitely) too long for their source material, LEGO: The Hobbit is a well pieced-together retelling ...