Only in the Northern Territory. This is Smaug. Smaug is a five-metre saltwater crocodile that weighs about 550 kilograms — more than half a tonne. Smaug is not very easily seen from above his ...

Forget about the divisions between saltwater and freshwater economists. The hottest debate in economics right now is about Smaug, the dragon nemesis in J.R.R. Tolkein's novel "The Hobbit." Frances ...

Smaug has a message for hobbit, dwarfs and wizards looking for a piece of his treasure in an action-packed new trailer for “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” “I am king under the mountain,” the ...

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 ...

With the last episode of The Colbert Report imminent, host Stephen Colbert is using his last few installments to go out with a bang — or in this case, a blaze of dragon fire. "I want you to know that ...

Happily, “Smaug” is vastly better from the get-go. Instead of a drawn-out intro, we get right to the action, which is of course the quest of Bilbo (Martin Freeman, himself livelier and funnier) and ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Warner Bros. has released the first poster for ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. When it was first announced that a feature film ...

The four-time Oscar winner describes creating a CG dragon that was "twice as big as a 747," saying Peter Jackson "wanted his physical size to dominate." By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor “He’s huge, ...

Godzilla has fought many a monster -- from giant moths to massive robots to smog incarnate to even King Kong-- and he's lived to roar about it. To break down the matchup, Speakeasy enlisted two ...