The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has released two new promo images. The first image - taken from a HarperCollins book jacket - shows Martin Freeman as Bilbo, reflected in a close-up of the ...

Smaug is of course the dragon sitting atop the pile of gold once the treasure of Thorin's ancestors. Thorin wants it back, and he needs a burglar (Bilbo) to steal a particular item – the Arkenstone.

In the first Hobbit film, he was pitted against Gollum in a battle of wits. Here, his antagonist is Smaug (Benedict Cumberbatch), a very well-spoken and conceited dragon whom he encounters deep ...

The Hobbit unveils first full image of Benedict Cumberbatch's Smaug the dragon on the side of a plane Air New Zealand have released a timelapse video of the painting on the side of a Boeing 777-300ER ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits the DVD and Blu-ray shelves today, bringing with it a reminder that pretty much anything can be improved if you add a) Benedict Cumberbatch and b) a ...

And the digitally generated monsters look real enough. Smaug the dragon, of course, should be this instalment’s trump card.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Picture: AP Photo/Warner Bros) While The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey felt a bit like the company of 14 spent the whole film running from some inept goblins ...

The dragon Smaug himself is magnificent, some of the digital artwork is attractive and the movie is no worse than its multiplex peers, but in my heart all I feel is . . . desolation.

The Hobbit - The Desolation Of Smaug trailer For adults, its structure negates the greater Fellowship of the first film, which itself didn’t match The Lord of the Rings’ early camaraderie.

A new trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug has been released. You can watch the trailer, in which Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) comes face-to-face with the dragon Smaug (Benedict ...

The Desolation Of Smaug is the second in director Peter Jackson ‘s trilogy of The Hobbit adaptations. The story picks up where last year’s An Unexpected Journey left off, as Bilbo Baggins, the ...

It is presently occupied by a malevolent dragon, Smaug, who snoozes lightly beneath vast, clunking piles of stolen gold. The journey is, as you might expect, not without its perils.