LOS ANGELES (AP) — Audiences had their pick of genres during the Christmas weekend, but despite a host of fresh arrivals, splashy holiday fare like "Unbroken" and "Into the Woods" proved no match for ...

After posting one of the strongest Christmas Day totals of the last decade, the domestic box office went on to claim the best post-holiday frame ever this weekend with over $208 million in overall ...

Over the last 20 years, Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy has been enshrined as a wintertime favorite by those craving spectacle and a cozy time on the couch. We can (and have!) debated if the ...

Although Tolkien's novel The Hobbit begins in the Springtime and ends in Midsummer, it is pure Christmas. It begins with overwhelming numbers of unexpected visitors and much consumption of good food ...

To read “The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) at Christmas is to become alive to more ancient economic models of exchange, in which society operates through the giving and receiving of gifts.

What better way to spend your Christmas weekend curled up by the fire, humming the Dwarven folk song from the teaser trailer, watching another 12-minute video blog about the adventures of Peter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the lead-up to one of the busiest times at the box office, audiences certainly spread around the Christmas cheer this weekend, ...

‘The Hobbit’ Opens To $223M Worldwide As It Breaks Records Around Globe: $84.7M Domestic And $138.2M International For All-Time Christmas Release In North America, the film is playing in 4,045 ...

Movie fans needed a spreadsheet to keep track of all the Christmas releases this year. A total of nine new features opened nationwide in the last eight days (there were seven in the same period last ...