‘The Hobbit 3’ Gets An Official Title And A Release Date!

Today, Warner Bros. and MGM announced that the third part in Peter Jackson’s Hobbit adaptaion will officially be known as The Hobbit: There and Back Again. It will hit theaters on July 18th, 2014.

The first part of the trilogy, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey opens December 14th and will be followed with next year’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug on December 13th, 2013. All three films are being shot in 3D 48 frames-per-second. Additional filming for the third film will take place at the Stone Street Studios, Wellington, and on location in New Zealand.

I was a little iffy on The Hobbit being split into three films at first, but the closer it gets to opening the more I’m getting excited to return to Middle Earth not once but three times. When Fellowship of The Ring came out way back in 2001 I had absolutely zero interest in watching a movie that was close to three hours long and featured elves and orcs in it. I finally gave in and saw it when it came out on DVD and immediately knew I had been completely wrong about the movie. I have since become a huge fan of Middle Earth and have been eagerly awaiting my return visit to Middle Earth. From An Unexpected Journey through There and Back Again, I will be along for the ride.

Source: Deadline