Warner Bros. has released a new poster for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, and it has also been announced that the first trailer will be released on Tuesday, June 11 at 1pm ET.
The movie has a December 13, 2013 release directed by Peter Jackson and starring Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Ian McKellan as Gandalf and Benedict Cumberbatch as the dragon Smaug.
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