Five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category this year, and they each offer a nice look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and their effects teams can pull off on the ...

Benedict Cumberbatch has never done an animated family film before like “The Grinch,” but he knows a thing or two about lending his voice to angry old monsters living secluded in a mountain. In a new ...

British actor Benedict Cumberbatch likened recording his animated role of the fire-breathing dragon in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" to "playing like a kid." Directed and produced by Peter ...

In Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings prequel trilogy, The Hobbit, there was a dragon under the mountain. That dragon was named Smaug and Smaug’s voice belonged to Benedict Cumberbatch. While watching ...

In its final days, “The Colbert Report” is getting creative with its guest bookings. The Grim Reaper, or “Grimmy,” is expected to be the final guest on Dec. 18, but on Thursday, Colbert played host to ...

Peter Jackson’s well-received second “Hobbit” movie, “The Desolation of Smaug,” not only moves along more swiftly and assuredly, but it also contains a greater variety of VFX (spiders, bear, shadowy ...