Final Film in "The Hobbit" Trilogy in Cinemas July 18, 2014
SECOND FILM TO BE TITLED “THE HOBBIT: THE
DESOLATION OF SMAUG”
AND THIRD FILM TITLED “THE HOBBIT: THERE AND
BACK AGAIN”
Warner
Bros Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures jointly announced today that the
final film in Peter Jackson’s trilogy adaptation of the enduringly popular
masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, now titled “The Hobbit: There and
Back Again,” will be released worldwide on July 18, 2014. All three films in
the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pictures.
Photo courtesy of New Line Cinema |
The
Studios also announced the title of the second installment in the franchise,
“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” which will be released on December 13,
2013. The first film in the trilogy, “The Hobbit: An
Unexpected Journey,” opens this holiday season, on December 14, 2012. Shot in
3D 48 frames-per-second, the trilogy of films will be released in High Frame
Rate (HFR) 3D, other 3D formats, IMAX and 2D.
Dan
Fellman, President of Domestic Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures, stated, “We
wanted to have a shorter gap between the second and third films of ‘The Hobbit’
Trilogy. Opening in July affords us not only the perfect summer tentpole, but
fans will have less time to wait for the finale of this epic adventure.”
Veronika
Kwan Vandenberg, President of International Distribution, Warner Bros.
Pictures, added, “‘The Hobbit: There and Back Again’ will be an action
spectacle and an emotional conclusion for this already much-anticipated
trilogy. Opening in the summer will maximize playability for what promises to
be an event film for fans the world over.”
From Academy Award®-winning director Peter Jackson, the trilogy of
films is set in Middle-earth 60 years before “The Lord of the Rings,” which
Jackson and his filmmaking team brought to the big screen in the blockbuster
trilogy that culminated with the Oscar®-winning “The Lord of the Rings: The
Return of the King.”
The screenplay for “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” the first
film in the trilogy, is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson
& Guillermo del Toro. Jackson is also producing the films, together
with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh. The executive producers
are Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins and Carolyn Blackwood, with Boyens and
Eileen Moran serving as co-producers.
Under Jackson’s direction, all three movies are being shot in
digital 3D using the latest camera and stereo technology. Additional filming,
as with principal photography, is taking place at Stone Street Studios,
Wellington, and on location around New Zealand.
“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and the two remaining films in
the trilogy are productions of New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pictures, with New Line managing production. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling
worldwide theatrical distribution, with select international territories as
well as all international television licensing, being handled by MGM.
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