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Date: 2013 (Copyright)

Countries: USA, New Zealand

Director: Peter Jackson

Synopsis: Fantasy, continuing the adventures of the younger Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit enlisted to journey with wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on a quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor. The group continues east, encountering the skin-changer Beorn and a swarm of giant Spiders in the treacherous Mirkwood Forest. After escaping in barrels from the dangerous Woodland Elves who have captured them, they journey by barge to Lake-town, a town with rivers for roads, which has falled on hard times, having been prosperous in former times before the dragon Smaug took over Erebor. They press on to the Lonely Mountain, where they finally face Smaug and try to expell him from what was their people's home.

Genres:
Action and Adventure, Fantasy

Subjects:
Fantastic creatures, Journeys, Dragons, Dwarves (mythical), Elves, Barrels, Gold, Barges
Releases
Date: 13 December 2013Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 160 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 13 December 2013Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 160 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 13 December 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 161 mins 0 secs - Length: 14490 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Bros Distributors (UK)
Date: 13 December 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSatAspect ratio: 2.35:1Runtime: 161 mins 0 secs - Length: 14490 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Warner Bros Distributors (UK)

Credits (99)
©: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., ©: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc, Production Company: Wingnut Films, Presents: New Line Cinema, Presents: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Executive Producer: Alan Horn, Executive Producer: Toby Emmerich, Executive Producer: Ken Kamins, Executive Producer: Carolyn Blackwood, Produced by: Carolynne Cunningham, Produced by: Zane Weiner, Produced by: Fran Walsh, Produced by: Peter Jackson, Co-producer: Philippa Boyens, Co-producer: Eileen Moran, Unit Production Manager: Brigitte Yorke, Unit Production Manager: Zane Weiner, Supervising Location Manager: Jared Connon, Location Manager: Matthew Gordon, Post-production Supervisor: Joshua Levinson, 1st Assistant Director: Carolynne Cunningham, Script Supervisor: Victoria Sullivan, UK Casting: Amy Hubbard, John Hubbard, US Casting: Victoria Burrows, Scot Boland, New Zealand Casting: Liz Mullane, Miranda Rivers, Australian Casting: Ann Robinson, Screenplay: Fran Walsh, Screenplay: Philippa Boyens, Screenplay: Peter Jackson, Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro, Based on the novel ['The Hobbit or There and Back Again'] by: J.R.R. Tolkien, Director of Photography: Andrew Lesnie, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Richard Bluck, Camera Operator: Cameron McLean, Camera Operator: Simon Harding, Steadicam: Cameron McLean, Simon Harding, Senior Visual Effects Supervisor: Joe Letteri, Visual Effects Supervisor: Eric Saindon, Visual Effects and Animation Created by: Weta Digital Ltd., Additional Visual Effects: Mark Hawthorne, Special Effects Supervisor: Steve Ingram, Animation Supervisor: David Clayton, Eric Reynolds, Edited by: Jabez Olssen, Production Designer: Dan Hennah, Supervising Art Director: Simon Bright, Art Director: Andy McLaren, Art Director: Brad Mill, Art Director: Brian Massey, Set Designer: Erin Collins, Set Designer: Will Crooks, Set Designer: Jennifer Hitchcock, Set Designer: John Lott, Set Designer: Colette Mullin, Set Designer: Mark Stephen, Set Designer: Helen Strevens, Set Designer: Gavin Urquhart, Set Designer: Richard Wiles, Conceptual Design: John Howe, Alan Lee, Costume Designer: Bob Buck, Costume Designer: Ann Maskrey, Costume Designer: Richard Taylor, Hair and Make-up Design: Peter Swords King, Special Make-up: Richard Taylor, Creatures: Richard Taylor, Armour, Weapons, Creatures and Special Make-up: Weta Workshop Ltd, Prosthetic Supervisor: Tami Lane, End Titles: Scarlet Letters, Music Composed by: Howard Shore, Music Performed by: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Choir: London Voices, Music Conducted by: Conrad Pope, Orchestrations: Conrad Pope, Orchestrations: James Sizemore, Sound Designer: David Farmer, Sound Designer: Dave Whitehead, Sound Recordist: Adrian Medhurst, Sound Recordist: Toby Lloyd, [Production] Sound Mixer: Tony Johnson, Re-recording Mixer: Christopher Boyes, Re-recording Mixer: Michael Hedges, Re-recording Mixer: Michael Semanick, Supervising Sound Editor: Brent Burge, Supervising Sound Editor: Chris Ward, Stunt Co-ordinator: Glenn Boswell, Movement Choreographer: Terry Notary, Swordmaster: Steven McMichael, Project Consultant: Guillermo del Toro, Tolkein Language Translation: David Salo, Tolkein Scholar: Janet Brennan Croft, Armour/Weapons: Richard Taylor, Horsemaster: Wayne McCormack, Filmed on location in New Zealand and at: Stone Street Studios
Cast (46)
Ian McKellen (Gandalf the Grey), Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield), Benedict Cumberbatch (Smaug/Necromancer), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Lee Pace (Thranduil), Luke Evans (Bard/Girion), Stephen Fry (Master of Lake-town), Ken Stott (Balin), James Nesbitt (Bofur), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Mikael Persbrandt (Beorn), Sylvester McCoy (Radagast), Aidan Turner (Kili), Dean O'Gorman (Fili), Graham McTavish (Dwalin), Adam Brown (Ori), Peter Hambleton (Gloin), John Callen (Oin), Mark Hadlow (Dori), Jed Brophy (Nori), William Kircher (Bifur), Stephen Hunter (Bombur), John Bell (Bain), Manu Bennett (Azog), Lawrence Makoare (Bolg), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel), Ryan Gage (Alfrid), Peggy Nesbitt (Sigrid), Mary Nesbitt (Tilda), Ben Mitchell (Narzug), Stephen Ure (Fimbul), Craig Hall (Galion), Robin Kerr (Elros), Eli Kent (Lethuin), Simon London (Feren), Brian Sergent, Peter Vere-Jones (spider), Mark Mitchinson (Braga), Kelly Kilgour (Soury), Sarah Peirse (Hilda Bianca), Nick Blake (Percy), Dallas Barnett (Bill Ferny Sr.), Matt Smith (Squint), Katie Jackson (Betsy Butterbur), Richard Whiteside (Butterbur Sr.)