‘The Hobbit 3′ Release Date Delayed To December 17, 2014

COMMENTS (18)

• The Battle of *Six* Armies?

  Comment by Anonymous — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• Did they ever intend on releasing in July? Seems like a dummy move given that all other Lord of the Rings/Hobbit movies were December releases. It’s a good move though, it would have been terrible if the hobbit knocked X-Men’s feet out from under it making the studio re consider part three in the First Class trilogy.

  Comment by Mark — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:31pm PST  Reply to this post

• Good. Maybe they can figure out until then how to make that 48FPS crap not look so unbelievably horrible. I couldn’t get into the movie because everything looked like it was shot like an Infomercial, and everything was in focus. What a horrible decision by the filmmakers.

  Comment by Gregster — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:44pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Yeah. I hate it when everything is in focus. I like blurry images where I can’t see what I’m looking at…..

    Comment by thephantomcat — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:52pm PST  Reply to this post

    • Your lovely snark aside, I’m with Gregstor. The human eye doesn’t focus on everything at once, but shifts from the foreground to the distance, and it looks wrong (to my eyes, at least) with the new frame rate look.

      Comment by Rish Outfield — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 7:28pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Can’t disagree more. I loved the 48 fps and it also made me enjoy 3D (Which I normally hate with a passion). I don’t understand why people had a problem with it… I loved having crystal clear images

    Comment by Britt — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 8:21pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Who asked you to watch 48 frames/s? You had a choice, you bought the tickets so stop bitching.

    Comment by jmm — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 8:48pm PST  Reply to this post

• Well, I suppose this will benefit X-Men: Days of Future Past, but I was looking forward to seeing how well The Hobbit would do during the summer when “every day is a holiday.”

  Comment by thephantomcat — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 5:50pm PST  Reply to this post

• WB — please consider a few HFR screens in 2D.

  Comment by Creative Type — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 6:03pm PST  Reply to this post

• Summer was never going to happen. These guys are already double dipping on the Blu-ray releases – a theatrical cut in March & an Extended Cut later in the year – & leaving only six months between theatrical releases wouldn’t give WB enough time.

  Summer was NEVER going to happen.

  ALSO – In my area (Washington DC) all the 3D showings & especially HFR 3D showings of The Hobbit Part 1 were the first to get kicked out of theaters. The 2D prints stuck around a long time & I can’t imagine Monsters Inc 3D & Texas Chainsaw 3D could chase away that many shows.

  Comment by Paul — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 6:27pm PST  Reply to this post

• I bet FOX are breathing a sigh of relief.

  Comment by Brian — Thursday February 28, 2013 @ 6:38pm PST  Reply to this post

• The Hobbit III may be the only release scheduled for the end of 2014, now, but that won’t last. December is the traditional month for Oscar hopefuls because they will be fresh in the Academy’s mind for nominations. Which is probably the real reason that WB and PJ have pushed the release date back, to make it more likely to pick up a few Oscars.

  Comment by Christine Golden — Friday March 1, 2013 @ 5:37am PST  Reply to this post

• One movie turned to three, made everyone involved and extra 2 Billion dollars (pending each one does the same BO). Crazy!

  Comment by GIBBS — Friday March 1, 2013 @ 6:59am PST  Reply to this post

• If it’s anything like Hobbit 2, other films need not worry. Hobbit 2 which was the worst film ever. The fact that I had to pay extra for 3D irked me even more.

  Comment by egolite — Friday March 1, 2013 @ 10:24am PST  Reply to this post

• Uhhh so yeah, The Hobbit 2 has not released yet so when you get back from the future Egolite please let us know who won the 2014 super bowl too so I can bet on it moron!

  Comment by George — Sunday March 3, 2013 @ 6:06pm PST  Reply to this post

  • It was all in the Sports Almanac….his real name is Marty btw

    Comment by mav — Thursday April 25, 2013 @ 12:39am PDT  Reply to this post

• This is the first movie download for my I pad and I loved it. It was as if by moving the tablet you could look around corners and over cliffs. A handheld I-Max!

  Comment by Scott — Friday March 15, 2013 @ 3:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I disagree with a few of these people I like. The Lord of the rings tirlogy and liked this just as much

  Comment by Joel stands — Saturday April 20, 2013 @ 9:35pm PDT  Reply to this post