‘The Hobbit: There & Back Again’ Pushed to December 2014 Opening

Briefly: There’s a lot of release date shuffling going on right now between the studios. One moves something big, it causes everything else to shift, especially with so many projects in or going in to production. Deadline reports that Warner Bros / New Line has decided to push back the final movie in Peter Jackson’s trilogy, The Hobbit: There & Back Again, from its original July 18th, 2014 release (same day as X-Men: Days of Future Past) to December 17th, going in line with the Lord of the Rings trilogy (every December in ’01, ’02, ’03). Remember, There & Back Again was added as the third movie just last year, originally set to follow The Desolation of Smaug this December by arriving July, but it looks like it’s back to December as well. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit… J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, being directed by Peter Jackson as three separate movies, is set in Middle-Earth 60 …