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 ...

When Andy Serkis first played Gollum in The Lord of the Rings movies, motion capture was something of an unknown quantity. In the years that have followed, it's become a method of storytelling that's ...

Actor Andy Serkis is famous for, among other things, his incredible talent for motion-capture characters. One of his first high-profile roles of that type was Gollum from Peter Jackson's The Lord of ...

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 ...