The Hobbit Overview

The Hobbit is released in the UK on 13th December 2013.

It was produced by MGM, WingNut Films and New Line Cinema, and distributed by Warner Bros.

The production budget is $200,000,000.

The Hobbit was filmed in New Zealand, but the premiere will be in LA, not in Wellington, as it was with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Whilst MGM, New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. are all American institutions, Peter Jacksons own production company WingNut Films is based in the UK.

The film is a high budget studio production.

The film is part of The Hobbit Trilogy, being preceded by The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and followed by The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014). The whole trilogy acts as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, both trilogies being based on books written by JRR Tolkien.

The film is directed by Peter Jackson.

Stars in the film include Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Benedict Cumberbatch and Richard Armitage.

The film (and trilogy) follows the story if Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit living in the fantasy world known as Middle Earth. He embarks on a journey with a group of dwarves and a wizard to help the dwarfes reclaim their home from a dragon called Smaug.

This film will already have a huge fan base of Lord of the Rings fans as well as fans of the first Hobbit film. It will also appeal to many other audiences, such as male and female young adults and older children, as well as older people 40+ who may have read the book.