Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies were wildly successful upon their release, pleasing both hardcore and new fans of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world. One of the big technical changes that came ...

Motion-capture performances really took hold of Hollywood in the 2000s, when the treacherous hobbit Gollum helped Sam and Frodo make their way to Mordor to destroy the one ring to rule them all. As ...

ILLUSTRATION BY HEATHER JONES FOR TIME; EVERETT (3); GOLLUM: WARNER BROS. At a pivotal point in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, our hero encounters Gollum, the haggard creature moviegoers will recognize ...

Lord of the Rings star Andy Serkis is well-known for his role as Gollum, but the actor has revealed that he was initially mocked over it. The star's motion capture performance as the villain proved ...

LOS ANGELES — Gollum is returning to the big screen. "The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum" will open in theaters Dec. 17, 2027, Warner Bros. announced Thursday. Andy Serkis will return to the ...

Ian McKellen sent “Lord of the Rings” fans into a tizzy earlier this year when he teased that the upcoming movie, “The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum,” would actually be two films. Not so fast ...

Days after the announcement that the Lord of the Rings would be returning to theaters in the form of The Hunt for Gollum, the writer/director behind all six live-action films in the Lord of the Rings ...

Ian McKellan sent an entire fandom into excited confusion when he seemed to suggest on the British talk show The Morning that Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum was, in fact, two films. Now, ...

In The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Gollum / Smeagol is voiced by Wayne Forester, who also serves as the face capture model for the character. He’s a voice actor who’s had many roles including Henry’s ...

The motion-capture acting in “The Planet of the Apes” movies tries to preserve the magic of the physical world amid all the effects in a big budget franchise. By Phillip Maciak He’s a goofy little ape ...